Vintage Train Show

 

This year is Grand Central Station's 100th anniversary. In honor of this they are holding lots of special events. This past weekend they hosted a vintage train show. It was really fun to see all of the old trains. I have never taken a train out of Grand Central Station so it was also cool to see a bit more of the station than I had ever seen before. 

 

There was actually a fairly long wait to see the trains but it flew by due to the genius of the GCS staff. Instead of standing in line for an hour that had us sit on empty air conditioned trains that had bathrooms! 

There were trains from all different time periods in history. 

You could get on most of them and walk through to see all the layouts and details. 

There were a ton of people there! Who knew old trains drew such a crowd.

We didn't actually walk into a lot of the trains because there were crazy long lines of people trying to do that but we did walk through this old dining car.

After the trains we went to the food court and got some yummy gelato. I finally found a flavor I've been looking at every gelato place for since I went to Italy 6 years ago...green apple! And it was just as good as I remember it :)

Grand Central Station will be holding lots of events the rest of the year so if you find yourself in New York City make sure you check out the calendar on their website. I'm looking forward to this one in particular. 

Until Next Time

XOXO

Ashley

Trend of The Week: Straw Hats

Most people fall into 1 of 2 camps- you are a hat person or you are not a hat person. I am a hat person. I like hats because they have the ability to make an otherwise boring outfit a little more special. I love straw hats like this one in the summer.

The hat I'm wearing is no longer available gut you can find similar here.

Until Next Time

XOXO

Ashley

Trend of the Week: Maxi Dresses

This weeks trend of the week is maxi dresses! Ash and I are absolutely obsessed with maxi dresses. For me I feel they are a little hard to pull off because I'm short, but I make them work anyway. They are perfect for a cool spring day!

The one I am wearing is from my internship. You can buy it here!

There are all sorts of styles of maxi dresses! Here are a few of our favorites!

Strapless Maxi: Old Navy

Spaghetti Strap Maxi: J Crew

Floral Maxi: Forever 21

Until Next Time!

XOXO

Shelby

Adventures in Cooking: Babycakes Cupcakes

It's no surprise that Ashley and I love cupcakes...So when my best friend Emily gave me this cupcake book a few years ago we were elated! This is a book from a bakery here in NYC. All the recipes are vegan, gluten free, and mostly sugar free. Healthy cupcakes? Complete heaven! Here I am sharing a recipe for vanilla cupcakes that are absolutely delish!

Ingredients:

2 cups Garbanzo-Fava Bean Flour

1 cup potato starch

1/2 cup arrowroot

1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon xanthan gum

2 teaspoons of salt

2/3 cup of coconut oil

1 1/3 cups of agave nectar

3/4 Applesauce

3 tablespoons Vanilla Extract

Grated zest of 1 lemon

1 cup of hot water

Whisk together the dry ingredients...Then add all of the rest! That simple!

Pour 1/3 cup batter into each prepared cup

Bake at 325 for 22 minutes!

 So delicious!

Until Next Time!

XOXO

Shelby

Trend of the Week: Hi-Lo Skirts

So remember all that shopping I talked about doing over the weekend? I found one of my new favorite things- this hi-lo skirt! It's perfect for spring and it is so versatile. If you don't know what a hi-lo skirt is it's basically a skirt that is shorter in the front than it is in the back. I love a maxi skirt and this is a perfect twist to a classic.

The skirt pictured is from Uniqlo. You can buy it here.

Until Next Time

XOXO

Ashley

Glorious Weekend Activities

What a beautiful weekend in NYC! It was the first warm weekend of the year and we spent about 50% of it outside...we spent the other 50% of it shopping. We have been wearing sweaters and coats for what seems like forever so we were definitely due for some fun spring/summer clothes.

 

 Saturday we took a lunch break in between shopping and grabbed some Chipotle takeout and sat and enjoyed it in the park at Herald Square. Those burrito bowls always hit the spot.

It was so nice to just sit outside and feel the sunshine.

 Today we decided to go grab lunch at this Turkish restaurant, Beyoglu, in our neighborhood that I always walk by that looked so yummy. In the warmer months the majority of the NYC restaurants put tables outside on the sidewalk so we enjoyed our lunch al fresco.

 

 We decided to just order a bunch of appetizers and share. Everything was so good!

 

 After lunch we sat on the patio at Starbucks for a bit while Shelby was studying for a test and I was playing on Pinterest :)

 Pixie came to Starbucks too and made a lot of friends. Then she got cold (guess we got the summer hair cut a little too soon) so we went home.

Hope each of you had a beautiful weekend too!

Until Next Time

XOXO

Ashley

A Walk In The Park

 

Last weekend Shelby and I were strolling around downtown and ended up in Washington Square Park. The last time we were there there was snow on the ground so it was nice to see it full of flowers and with all of the people out enjoying the pretty day. Washington Square Park is known for it's street performers. Just in the short time we were there we saw tons of people singing or playing instruments. We also saw a group of theater students from NYU rehearsing Shakespeare for a play coming up next weekend.

  

 

 

 

The parks are one of my favorite things about this city and they tend to pop up when you least expect them. They are a nice reprieve from the thousands of skyscrapers in Manhattan.

Until Next Time

XOXO

Ashley