The past four years have represented major life transition in sisterly relations = I became a mother of two boys and my sister, Gigi, became a teenager. A full on 14 year old who is a freshman in high school and prepping for her quinceñera next summer... Sidebar: prepping for this post had me all ...
Brooklyn Bridge + Museum of Sex = A Typical NYC Girls Trip
I can't remember the last time I went on a girl's trip... (spends 10 minutes browsing through old blog posts to see when was the last time I went on one...) Update: It's technically been a year and a half since I went on girl's trip. The last trip being when I visited my girl, Anna, in South ...
All Of The Lights At Panna II in NYC
^ Press Play ^ You know that saying "don't judge a book by its cover"? Does that mean you shouldn't judge a restaurant by its interior? Because if it does then I'm 100% guilty. Case in point: Panna II - an Indian restaurant located in the Little India area of NYC. I found out about this ...
24 Hours In NYC
^^ 7:30am: On the bus to NYC! The ride from D.C. to New York is about 4 hours, give or take depending on traffic. My great friend, Durell, was getting married to the love of his life, Hannah, and there was no way we were missing it. ^^ 12:00pm: We made it to the Big Apple! For those who are new ...
Harlem’s Hidden Treasure | Riverbank Grill
There's a restaurant in the West Harlem District located off the beaten path.. And by off the beaten path, I mean located smack dab in the middle of a New York state park that nobody seems to know about. The park is called the Riverbank State Park and the restaurant is appropriately named (drum roll ...
Blate & The City
Since I started blogging over a year ago, I've been really fortunate to meet some ah-mazing people within the blog community! From bloggers that lived in my area or across the ocean (hey Malou!), most of my blog (now IRL) friendships all began with the initial action of someone leaving a ...
Free MOMA
Fridays at the MOMA = Free. Free = We Were In There With No Cares. We = Me, Charles & Our Good Friend, Tarek. Conclusion = The MOMA's cool but got damn, it was hot in there! There were so many people taking advantage of the free admission that I was in ...
NomNomNom | Mamajuana Cafe
Guess who finally got around to working on some posts from our recent trip to NYC? *Raises Hand* On the bus ride up to NYC, Charles and I started thinking about what we were going to eat when we arrived. I swear there's never not a moment we aren't thinking about food. It's our favorite ...
Postcards From NYC
This past weekend was a blur of constant motion as Charles and I walked our Nike clad feet all around NYC. Who would've thought that so many moments could be packed into two and a half days? Needless to say, I finally did see the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lights annnnnd will never do it again... ...
Annnnnd We’re Off!!!
^^ photo of us via As you're reading this, Charles and I will more than likely be on a bus headed to NYC!!! The biggest thing on my to-do list is to see the Rockefeller Tree lights because last year when I went, the lights were turned off... It was such a bummer. So this go round, I ...
A Year Of Blogging | The NYC Recap
Phew! I've been wanting to publish this post ever since I got the idea ... Which was a couple of months ago. But let me tell ya people ... Writing a post that recaps everything I did and everywhere I went while living in New York with blog links to every NYC related post on this ...
Welcome To The Wild, Wild Woods … Said The City Girl
As I was going through the last of my pictures of our trip to the Adirondacks, I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with happiness. These photos signify the closing of my New York chapter and I wouldn't have had it end any other way. After living in NYC for 2 years, I was already transitioning to a ...
