RQS and I discussed coming up early this weekend. Although the "Lobster Truck" would be elsewhere, I was able to entice her to come up a day early with oysters - 12 Oysters for $12 at Whole Foods on Fridays between 2 and 5 pm. So we made plans for her to meet me at Grand Central Terminal after I went to Universal Standard's Sample Sale.
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I got dressed in a comfortable dress on Thursday, then left my house around noon, proceeding to Manhattan on the 12:42 pm train. When the train got into Grand Central around 1:45 pm, we got delayed because the train couldn't make it al the way into the station, and had to discharge passengers through the first two cars of the train. I was totally exhausted by the time I made it to Universal Standard. (The heat both under and above ground was gruesome, and I was a little dehydrated by this point.) So, after stopping for some air conditioned comfort, I went upstairs to do some shopping.
Once I was upstairs, I was greeted by a staffer who has seen me at several of the sample sales. Then, I proceeded to browse the racks to find things I might be interested in. As much as most of the stuff wasn't worth my interest, I found two items of worth: A blue sleeveless dress (that I wasn't sure that I should buy) and a pair of leggings that I could always wear when the weather gets cooler. $75 later, I was out of there with garments that would normally sell for over $175 ($40 for the dress and $35 for the leggings)
Leaving the store, I decided to take the East Side local to Brooklyn Bridge, then back uptown to Grand Central. This way, I could be assured to have a seat in an air conditioned car on its way uptown. (The last thing I want to do is stand on a subway car being delayed due to problems ahead of us.) While on my way, I found that RQS was 45 minutes behind me, so I knew I'd have to wait for her at Grand Central.
Around 3:30 pm, I arrived at Grand Central and waited for RQS to arrive, then we took the train back to Croton. Since there was nothing ready for us to cook, we picked up some food at Trader Joe's and had dinner a little later.
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Friday came, and the focus of the day was to have oysters at Whole Foods. So, I donned the blue dress I bought the day before, and we drove to Chappaqua. RQS thought we were going to White Plains, and I wanted to see what it was like on the former Reader's Digest campus. We got there at 2:30 pm, and the supply of oysters was already starting to run out. $24 later, we were eating oysters normally selling for twice the price - and they were yummy! If scheduling works out, we may make this a semi-regular part of our routine.
Once done with our meal, it was off to the jewelers to have a few links taken out of her watch band. And then, we drove to Cold Spring for Ice Cream before returning home for the night.
