Happy Labor-less Day Friends!

Well my friends, today is one of those “get ready for back to work” days. As much as I’d love to have been at the beach hanging out, it’s not summer anymore. It’s fall. Fall is my favorite season because I can wear sweaters :) Besides bags and sunglasses, I do love me some sweaters. When I go shopping I literally need people to say to me, “okay enough sweaters!!” I’ve had my eye on this one in particular from you guessed it… Anthropologie :D

Pretty nice, huh? I just can’t justify spending $168 on this thing though. I didn’t see it in the store yet, which makes it harder because if the fabric’s thick, I’ll buy it. If not not gonna happen.

This was one of the places that I really wanted to go to this weekend but after a Saturday in the city with Sylwia and M’s mom, we were beat, and we could only park up to 2 hours. We went back to the car twice and the meter said that we had 15 minutes until 6pm. I was thinking “just risk it, it’ll only be 15 minutes over”. Then the smart side of my brain said “nope, that ticket would be more than 1/2 the price of this sweater, so let’s not risk it”.

We left the house around 10am and headed to the Burlington Mall to check out the sale at Macy’s with M’s Macy’s card. We use it for the deals then pay him back. Pretty good huh?! Heck yeah! Lol. We decided not to go to Anthro because we were going to go to the one in Back Bay anyways. MISTAKE! Haha.

The mall didn’t have much to offer… sooo we headed to the North End. For those of you that aren’t familiar with Boston, the North End is “Little Italy”. And when I say this, I mean to a T. The old guys sitting along the streets drinking coffee and checking out the women, shops and cafes on every corner. We even took a look at a church that was in the neighborhood. It was beautiful. It had that old church smell. Classic! It had that peaceful feeling. Where you go in and go speechless. You just look around and think. I left with a sense of calm, which I REALLY needed. I wasn’t sure about this little girls day out. Last time turned into “the guys are on the way home and they’re hungry”. Well you guys know me, and I know M. He is a man to slap a sammie together or stop by a sandwich shop, or even McDonald’s!! He just wouldn’t bother me. Well I guess his mom said “oh, we’ll run home and I’ll finish the dinner I was making”. Well this was in the middle of our little day out and we had about 5 more minutes to wait for our table at the Cheesecake Factory. It was just a crazy day. Yes I spent money, and good money, but still… I just wasn’t in the mood to play wifey or cater to anyone. We need those days to get out and do our thing. I can only run with the type of girls who are like me. I do things for M all the time, but I just can’t grasp the lazy man. Just can’t. But that’s a whole other story because M is trained (love you Lover!! :) ) haha.

After walking around in the North End we headed to the other side of Boston Harbor to Charlestown. This is where the military bases keep their boats. My father was in the Coast Guard and so it feels like home to be near the harbor. We went to Tavern on the Water.

We sat on the upper back side of this deck overlooking the water. I only took pics of the food well because I forgot to bring my camera for this fun-filled day. So I stole pics from Google :) But you get the idea…haha. The food was AMAZING.

I started off with an Amstel Light. I have to complain about one thing. Why do they have beer in cans at nice restaurants? We were having a nice dinner. Sure at night when someone is pounding them its the cheap route. But this was not the time. It tasted like Natural Ice. Nice dinner with Natty?! Oh no. So I drank it and just got it over with. I didn’t wanna about the liquor. So, moving on from my crisis… I had a Wedge Salad with Blue Cheese dressing and grilled salmon! Fabuloso, might I add!

Sylwia had a Bacon Ranch Burger with Fries and a pickle. That like “less than 100lb” girl can chow. She doesn’t eat much but when she does… SHE DOES! M’s mom and I were saying “oh, we’ll have a salad then at Charley’s we’ll have a good sized meal with drinks. Haha. Sylwia clearly didn’t care! :P Somebody was hungry! Haha.

We drove to Back Bay and did a boat-load of walking. We started at the beginning of Clarendon Street and walked all the way up Newbury.

We visited:

• French Connection
• Zara
• Sabon
• some little boutique on the corner of Newbury and Clarendon (saw a nice button-down shirt, thought “hmm maybe $100 max..” it was $780!) BOUNCE!
• some home interior shop which was AMAZING, forgot the name but it was very “Newbury” and out of my rangeeeee
• Second Time Around (1)
• Second Time Around (2)

We were literally in both Second Time’s for about an hour and I’m surprised we had time for anything else. One is located at 176 Newbury and the other 219. Rather close, but one is in a downstairs first floor location (as you can see the woman in the blue jacket entering). This one was much larger than the other which was 1/2 the size of my master suite with a little fan in the corner because it was so hot. They had a smaller collection of things but it was a good second location I guess.

For dinner, we sat outside at Charley’s. This is by far my favorite restaurant in Boston (well first after Chili Duck).

M’s mom saw someone order this icecream and really wanted some so we got it figuring we’d all share. Sylwia couldn’t fit anything else. She said she was still full from lunch. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. See! Haha.

This is my favorite Sangria… EVER! The Back Bay Sangria at Charley’s, Y’ALL! Ever come to Boston, this is the place. Do you see the size of that thing?

I’m sooooooooooooooooo over shopping lately. As you can see we did a bunch of walking but I just didn’t feel like touching another article of clothing :( BEAT!

I’ll update you on my morning later. For now, more self reflection from Bloom and some tips on going green as I promised a week ago. See, I am a bad partner! :P

Ciao friends, hope you’re enjoying your Labor-less Day!! xo

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