My lovely Marisa Paige Snelgrove and I very first met in a lovely Winnebago in the Summer of 2008 when we were signing our contracts to live in Edgewood Apartments at USU.
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| For real. The office was in a Winnebago. |
Edgewood was actually in an awesome location. Super close to campus, but it was also strategically placed at the bottom of the World's Most Dangerous Hill, especially in the winter.
(I may or may not have fallen on my butt a few times walking to class. Don't worry about it.)
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| Be jealous. This place was awesome. |
These are also the ONLY pictures I can find of us cohabiting in the apartment. You can tell we were BFF's.
(My defense is I had started dating Bryant so I was obviously too twitterpated to stay home.)
Paige and I lived together until the spring of 2009 when Paige moved back home to Chicago I moved to Kampus Korner (who names these places? Seriously.) for the summer then I married sweet lil Bryant that September.
FIVE YEARS LATER:
Paige and I became daily pen pals over the course of the next few years. (We probably know WAY too much about it each other, but it's fiiiiine.)The best of friends send each other Lou Malnati's pizza from Chicago and Juniors Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake from NYC.
So once I moved to NYC I was finally able to convince Paige to come visit me!
Paige arrived at our place Friday morning, March 21st.
After Willis loved her to death, we were able to leave the apartment to go grab some lunch at Katz's Deli. (I talk about how amazing it is all the time, so I shall spare you details for now.)
After that we headed down to City Hall where we were able to see an episode of Law & Order being filmed on the steps of the NY Supreme Court Building.
We then walked over to the Brooklyn Bridge:
Then over to the 9/11 Memorial.
We eventually made our way to Washington Square Park.
Paige took these lovely pictures. (The bubble one is my favorite.)
Later that night we went to the original Junior's in Brooklyn and stuffed our faces with Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake.
(I don't care who you are, your life will change once you eat this cheesecake.)
Saturday, March 22nd Paige and I got up bright and early (Ha! Good one. 10 AM) and went to the Empire State Building
Below you can see the view toward lower Manhattan, then to the west.
Looking towards Central Park
Look closely in the picture on the left. You'll find Paige bravely sticking her head through the fence.
You couldn't pay me to do that.
We can now die in peace
We then wandered over to Macy's and stared at their amazing floral displays
Then up to Rockefeller Plaza
Then over to the corner of 53rd & 6th Ave to wait in line for The Halal Guys.
Paige claims that there are ZERO food carts/trucks in Chicago, so naturally we had to have some street food.
(I'm seriously drooling as I type this. SOOOOO GOOD.)
At this point our poor feet were ready to fall off, so we hopped in a taxi to hurry over to Dylan's Candy Bar to stock up on some delicious treats.
I totally forgot to mention that one of Bryant's best buddies, Jackson Olsen, also arrived at our place Friday night and stayed through Sunday morning. (He lived in NYC for a year so he didn't feel the urge to site see with Paige and I. And he and Bryant just wanted to watch March Madness Games.)
You can tell Willis quickly fell in love.
That night we played a rousing game of "Seinfeld Scene-It."
Paige and I won.
Later the four of us had to go grab some treats at Veniero's.
Sunday, March 23rd Paige and I decided to take a literal day of rest.
(Our poor feet!)
Willis also weaseled his way into cuddling with Paige on the couch.
Monday, March 24th we were somewhat more energized and ready to explore again.
Our first stop was Levain Bakery on 74th Street for the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie.
(If you click on the link it will take you to their website where you can order some for yourself. You can thank me later.)
We pretended like it was actually Spring at Times Square.
Don't worry, it was still in the low 40's.
We then meandered over to Grand Central Station
We walked up 5th Avenue towards Central Park and made a quick stop at The Peninsula Hotel. (Paige used to work at the Chicago location so they let us into the spa to look around. It was nice pretending we could afford it.)
This was looking toward Central Park
We stopped in Harry Winston
And Tiffany's.
The jerks wouldn't let us try on any of the $900,000 engagement rings. I'm assuming we don't quite fit their clientele.
We certainly fit in at FAO! (Ahh. My favorite place.)
Our last stop for Paige's Grand Adventure was the Pond at Central Park.
Then we obviously had to look for dead bodies in the bushes all Law & Order Style.
Willis was SUUUPER sad to have Paige leave.
(He became her lap dog while she was here.)
Paige had to go back to cold, awful Chicago on Tuesday, March 25th.
I do know that I successfully helped her realize that New York Pizza is FAR superior to that casserole crap they have in Chicago.
MISS YOU MARISSSSSSA PAIGE!
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