igei and i wandered the streets of downtown new york (and remembered why we loved it so much)… uhm, let’s just say there were a TON of sales going on and i was very proud of myself for not spending that much money but coming up with more than a handful of stuff!

we hit up joe’s shanghai for some soup dumplings after our walk… i love walking through chinatown because its SO lively (although you have to walk in the streets sometimes because there are just WAY too many people on the sidewalks at times). igei picked up a coconut (hehe, been using my new flip camcorder as you can see, sorry for all the bumpiness too…):

after eating our fill at joe’s shanghai (i wanted to post a video of it, but it needed some editing, so i’ll have to wait for another time to post the “how to eat a soup dumpling” tutorial lol), we stuck around so my girls sunshine, crystal and candace could meet us to say hello. i’ve known sunshine and crystal for YEARS – they were my favs in high school (they were the cool ones a year above me lmao). sunny just moved here a few months ago and crystal is visiting with candace. i LOVE them… can you see why? ->

on the way home, we met the best kitty ever at the bodega across the street. we tried to buy him too, but it didn’t happen =(