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One thing I will miss about the city: daily post-work shopping. We are so spoiled to shop our way home on 5th avenue every day, which is exactly what we did on Thursday. Actually, we headed to Soho after work and spent a few hours sorting through the cheap stores for the great finds that don't look cheap.. which can be quite exhausting. After coming home and eating a giant bowl of Ramen, we put in a movie and were asleep by 10:30-it was fantastic.

Friday morning we headed to Diana's place in Long Island City for a much needed day of laying out by the water and cooking out on the rooftop.. it was a fabulous way to kick off the 4th of July weekend. Friday night, Kathryn and I headed to Candela, which is an outdoor Cuban Italian restaurant and Mohito bar that has wonderful Margherita pizza. We were pretty drained from our CRAZY sunburns and decided to call it a night pretty early.

We spent most of Saturday in our pajamas, but decided around 3 that we couldn't waste the beautiful sunshine by sitting inside. We braved the patio in our swimsuits for about an hour before deciding to head to Urban Outfitters and Pinkberry. As the 4th of July is my most favorite holiday, I felt the need to buy a dress for the occasion-and Kathryn bought a skirt. Saturday night Diana treated us to dinner at Abe & Arthurs, if you are visiting New York-this is somewhere you need to go! We saw Jamie O'Neal, which was cool, I used to LOVE that song "why does the color of my coffee match your eyes..." Next, we took Diana to one of our favorite places in the East Village, and spent the night soaking up our last Saturday in the city.

HAPPY FOUTH OF JULY! We headed to the Shake Shack around 4 for a very late lunch of some much needed greasy hamburgers and milkshakes. We looked quite festive in our red, white, and blue and shocked to find out that New Yorkers don't care too much about the holiday... which was a little depressing. Later tonight we headed to the Hudson to watch the fireworks that were shot off of 6 barges. While trying to decide our destination, a cab pulls up and ZACH BRAFF gets out (he's the main character on Scrubs). I mean he's literally just like 4 feet away from us and we are just staring at him and he's kind of looking at us and then I pulled a quick one and got a picture! The fireworks didn't compare to Fox Den, and I will admit that tonight I was really missing Knoxville.