Magnolia Thursday

We couldn't possibly go back to New York without stopping by Magnolia Bakery, so Thursday morning we got our cake on for breakfast.








It was, of course, delicious.








People were coming in with pre-orders and leaving with bags of these cupcakes.










I could not, for the life of me, remember the name 'red velvet cake'. So of course I had to order it once I got there. It was tasty.





Hee.








At one of the subway stops they have this brass statue motif going on, and this one in particular is a little disturbing because a: the alligator has people hands and shoulders, and b: it looks like it's eating a baby with a head made out of a moneybag.


We went to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design which was originally Andrew Carnegie's house. They had an exhibit on rococo style, and I now know more about rococo than ever before. However, one of the tour guides was describing the word as an amalgamation of an Italian word and the French rocaille, except she pronounced it 'ro-cail'. Now, I certainly pronounce things wrong every day of my life, but I figure that if you are the rococo tour guide you should make it a point to check out how to say the foreign words that you'll be using every day. But whatevs.

We travelled next to FAO Schwartz, which I had mistakenly believed was the toy store from Home Along II: Lost in New York but which I now know was really Duncan's Toy Chest. Obviously! Thanks, imdb. Anyway, I wasn't super blown away by it, since it just looked like a very upscale Toys-R-Us. Blasphemy, I know. There was this really nice sales guy that played Koosh racquetball with me for about ten minutes, though.

Take home the music? For $250,000, I'm not sure there will be anything to go home to. And of course there were a million parents taking pictures of their kids bouncing around on that thing, showing an early predilection to making sounds like 'bonk bonk gabonk".