This morning started off with a bagel from an Astoria bagel shop that serves one of the best bagels I have ever eaten in my entire life (and that is a ton of bagels). I don't know if it has something to do with the water that they use to make the dough or what, but all bagels in NY are better than anything you can get in the ATL.
The day was relatively calm during the morning after bagels, up through the afternoon. Turbo and I decided to go to a place called Magnolia to get cupcakes. My sister built these cupcakes up pretty high, so I will say that I was leery of the ability of the cupcake to live up to the hype. When we got to the shop (which had to be one of the smallest shops I have ever seen), there was a line out the door with a door woman letting people in and out. When we finally got inside, we had a choice between 4 flavors of cupcakes: vanilla/vanilla, vanilla/choclate, chocolate/vanilla, chocolate/chocolate. I elected to go for the vanilla with vanilla frosting. I will be the first to say that the hype of the cupcake did not do justice to what this cupcake tasted like. It was, hands down, the greatest pastry that I have ever put into my mouth. As this blog gets updated, there will be certain things that I write about as having been worth the entire trip; this cupcake is the first on the list. Holy crap, it was amazing!!
From there we went to a real Johnnie's Pizza (not like the franchise place throughout the country), and got ourselves some pie. It was also quite good (not close to the cupcake), though the company was better (Turbo and Lace).
We decided now to surprise my high school friend Beaner and show up to the open-mic gig that she hosts at the New World Stage theater. We got there a little early and asked if she was in. Who walked out the door at that EXACT moment but my wonderful friend Beaner!! She looked up, saw us, had it register who we were, smiled, and then tackled me. It was such a wonderful moment to see her and for her to be so excited by us being there. We went downstairs to the bar and hung out for a little while, waiting for the singing to commence. As we got closer to the time for the singing, a group of three people showed up (2 women - one was probably 40 years old and the other was in her 50s, and 1 man - 50s). Beaner sang first and most often, Turbo and Lace sang a lovely duet from Jesus Christ Superstar, Turbo sang Crazy by Patsy Cline. Lace did a fantastic rendition of All Good Gifts from Godspell. And even I went up there and sang with some other people a little bit from RENT. All in all, it was a phenominal evening, and I was ecstatic to be able to be there with Beaner.
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