Adrienne's and South Street Seaport

We didn't stay away from the city all weekend. On Sunday we went into Manhattan to meet up with some college friends for lunch. We got there a little early and somehow managed to find parking relatively fast, so we took a quick stroll by the South Street Seaport. It was such a beautiful day (the first nice weekend after lots of rain) I had to take a picture of the bridges over the river.


And me and Phil by the bridges over the river...although the water looks so much more green in this picture for some reason...

We stopped in at the mall at the South Street Seaport just to look around. There was a little store selling random posters and knick knacks, including this little "kimochi" toy. Kimochi means "feelings" in Japanese, and these little toys come with little toy faces that have different emotions depicted on them. Cute, yet strange all at the same time.

Then it was time for lunch at a pizza place called Adrienne's Pizza Bar in the financial district. I'd never really spent a lot of time in certain parts of the financial district. This place was on a small back street that almost doesn't look like it belongs in modern day NYC, more like something out of Europe - cobblestone road, no cars, small European style shops. I should have gotten a picture, but I forgot in my rush to get inside.

Once enough people arrived we started ordering for the group. To start things off we put in a couple orders for the Caprese (mozzarella, with tomatoes and basil).

And then we ordered lots and lots of pizza. I only managed to snag a picture of one of the pies since they were all spread across the long table. I don't remember which one this was, but all of them were pretty good. My personal favorite though was the old fashioned, which was similar to a deep dish pizza.

Here's everyone enjoying the food.

Group picture! (minus Phil who is behind the camera)

After pizza we headed back to the South Street Seaport with the group for some dessert at the Häagen-Dazs there.

While we were hanging out eating ice cream a guy came by on his bike with a husky to buy some beer. Not sure how he planned to ride the bike, hold his dog and drink his beer at the same time, but that's a separate subject entirely...The best part was the husky kept trying to sneak behind the drink stand to snag some beer. That's one crafty puppy!