Today has been the best day ever! I mean, not running my half marathon good or getting married good, but pretty damn good. Exploring, delicious food (seriously, seriously delicious), time with a friend, surprises for the husband…
I spent my afternoon exploring East Aurora with Holly. It was great but getting there was a trip. <– that’s a pun. 10 minutes into a 30 minute drive my phone (and gps) shut off. Apparently my hour at the Sprint Store was not well spent. The rest of the drive was like a scene from the 90’s, except I didn’t have the prerequisite skills of phone number recall and map reading. Somehow, and I seriously don’t know how, I ended up exactly where I needed to be. Phew!
And I was rewarded for my navigation magic with lunch at the festive Arriba Tortilla.
They had fancy lights and they let me order from the kids’ menu so they were 2-for-2. I got a kids’ taco platter with two fish tacos.
My fish tacos had mahi mahi, corn salsa, black beans, and zesty cole slaw.
I ate 1.5 and was covered in sauce and grinning from ear to ear when I was through.
After lunch we spent a couple of hours strolling around the adorable town. When Holly told me that EA was awesome I didn’t think that she was lying, but I didn’t actually expect it to be quite so amazing! Tons and tons of cute local shops and great walkability.
I grabbed an iced coffee with skim milk from Taste, the local coffee institution.
And we ended our travels at Firefly, a gorgeous cupcake shop.
It was a difficult choice but I ended up ordering a key lime pie cupcake.
Yellow cake with a graham cracker crust, key lime buttercream and key lime curd filling.
Ridiculous good. The frosting may have been the best I’ve ever had. I definitely closed my eyes and swooned at the first bite. I ate 90% of the cake and every last lick of the frosting and filling.
I’m glad we did lots of walking because the day’s dessert consumption wasn’t over yet. Holly told me something very exciting about our mall. Something very exciting that I managed to keep to myself long enough to surprise a very happy husband…
Buffalo now has self-serve froyo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so embarrassing; when Holly told me this morning I got so excited I could actually feel my heart speed up.
I got plain tart and coconut froyo topped with some fruit and sprinkles and tons of popping bobba.
Now that I can have it every day more often I’ll need to watch the portion sizes, but I wanted to enjoy the bobba just in case it didn’t make it on the long-term menu.
Adam and I ran errands into the early evening and then settled on the couch to cry hysterically watch the “Grey’s” finale. Dinner was pretty much identical to lunch but I had a coupon to Moe’s so I just went with it.
Two fish tacos, one hard and one soft for variety’s sake.
Plus chips with queso.
I thought the crunching would stop the crying but that was a lost cause. If anything, screaming at the screen helped me to eat less chips.
Which show finales have you been freaking out about this season?
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Grey’s was very sad. I knew they were killing someone, but I figured it would be April or Owen, and hoped it would be Karev. I was very surprised, but they do tend to kill off the goodhearted people, poor George.
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