at the next store, they mostly had toys and hello kitty stuff for little kids, not much i wanted. but i did see a japanese tamagotchi (omg omg omg omg!!!! XD), but it was for 50 bucks, which i didn't have, so i decided to pass (jenny: "but lily!!! X'(" me: "i kno i kno, i should have gotten it..."). soo, we went on to the actual market, which was basically a grocery store with a food court, like an asian whole foods. it was really cool going there, cuz mostly everything had a cute little character on it, from toasters to paper towels. i bought some pocky, and one of those little blind boxes, where they show you all the toys you had a chance of getting, but you didn't kno what was in it so it was a surprise. the one i got was very mushroom-themed. when we were done here, we went back to the bookstore, and i bought 2 rilakkuma erasers, a rilakkuma letter set, some colored pencil lead (now how cool is that?), and my aunt bought me a rilakkuma pencil case (i kno, alot of rllakkuma stuff, but it was mostly all they had). 

we stopped at trader joe's on the way back, so my aunt could do some grocery shopping, and then dave and linda dropped us off at the apartment, and we had dinner there (dave and linda went home). after dinner, we went to see get smart, that new movie, and it was pretty good, and then afterwards we wnet to barne's and noble and i bought the next book in the private series (if you're a girl, go read those books, they are awesome).  we went home after that, and went right to sleep. i was so tired i could have fallen asleep standing up on the subway, but luckily i didn't. *zzzzzzzzzzz......*

-lily -_- zzzzz...snore

the museum ended up closing early because of 4th of july, so we had to rush out of there. when we got back, we walked milo again and then went to dinner at this restaurant called toast. it was really yummy. we both got hamburgers in honor of the all-american holiday, and we ended up staying longer than we intended, to wait out the rain that was falling outside. we didn't really end up doing that, so we had to run home and then run to ben & jerry's to get some ice cream to bring to dave and linda's apartment, where we were going to watch the fireworks on top of their building. we didn't end up seeing much at all, because it was so cloudy. we did see some illegal ones tho, right near us, which were pretty. it was a pretty good 4th of july, with the exception of the fireworks, of course. 

-Lily 

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the murakami exhibit was really cool, altho some of the sculptures were a little explicit, but whatever. there was this one gigantic painting with all these mushrooms and everything in it, and there were also studies included for the painting with color samples and little notes he made in japanese. there was also this whole room devoted to flowers, with flowers covering the walls like wallpaper, and this big flower sculpture in the middle. there was this big painting on the opposite wall of where you came in, and it showed all these flowers making different faces, but most of them smiles, against a backround of clouds and blue sky. some of them were crying, and others were mad. there were also some other flower paintings in the room. we found out that he did the album cover for kanye west's new album, graduation.

after the murakami exhibit, we walked down to grimaldi's pizza, only to find that there was a very long line. so, we went to this other pizza place, which was still pretty good. after this, we saw this boutique that was pretty cool, so we tried on a few things, and then went on to walk to pearl paint, where i bought some gelly roll stardust pens, and we looked at the paintbrushes there too, just to see if any of them were suitable for makeup. sadly, none of them were. then we went to this minimalist japanese store called muji, where almost everything was either white, brown or grey. next door was the complete opposite of muji, CB2, which was crate and barrel, only with more modern-looking furniture. next was madewell, a store which was pretty cool, tho i didn't really see anything that would look good on me,  but o well.

 we went to lush, this store that made homemade cosmetics and soap. there's one in atlanta too, at lenox. there was this one bath bomb (i think it was a bath bomb) that was all orange and glittery, so that when you picked it up to smell it, you sucked glitter into your nose and it got all over your face and hands so you were all glittery and you couldn't get it out. after lush, we were getting kinda hungry so we took a cab to this crepe place where we got crepes to go. i got an entree crepe, and my aunt got a dessert crepe. we both got half of each of them. i got a crepe with tomatoes, mozzerella, and turkey, and she got a crepe with bananas, chocolate, and walnuts. they were really good. and our day was done.

-lily <3

  

when we were done eating, we went to rockefeller center, but we didnt stay there very long because i had already seen it last winter when i went for my birthday anyway. we went to an anthropologie and looked inside there for a few minutes, and then we went to H&M and looked at the stuff in there, which was pretty cool. i hope there'll be one in atlanta soon, cuz i would love them if they did put one there, at lenox on something. after that we went to sephora and i bought some eyeshadow and a brush for it, and i looked at all the makeup and tried some of the really expensive stuff on, just for fun. then i went to where the perfume was and sprayed some i liked on to the little perfume sample paper strips and stuck it in my purse so it would smell good. it didn't end up lasting very long tho. my aunt payed for my stuff just so she could see if she got something for paying $100 (i payed her back for my makeup tho), but all we got was a tiny powder compact that didn't match our skin tone and didn't even have a mirror. :( the makeup i bought was this urban decay eyeshadow and it was really sparkly and pretty, and i also got this sparkly purple sephora eye shadow. 

we walked to abercrombie then, and it was definitely nothing like the one at lenox or perimeter or the mall of georgia. it had 4 floors, and there were about 3 floor models on every floor, just sitting there dancing to the music. i guess it would be cool to be payed to dance in an abercrombie. the people were different too. there were alot more older adults then at lenox, cuz usually only high schoolers and twentysomethings shop there. but w/e. it was really cool. i didn't buy anything there, mostly because things are cheaper where i live, but had a really great selection there. sadly, there's no hollister in nyc, so we obviously didn't get to go there. then we tried to find the kinokuniya bookstores, with not much success, so we just decided to go back to her apartment, milo needed feeding and walking anyway, so when we got back, we walked him around. then we had to start getting ready for wicked. we put on some music and started to do our toenails. i got finished with mine when my aunt was still filing hers, and she ended up getting a little behind schedule so she had to take a power shower and dry her hair really fast, then figure out what to wear, and she didn't really have time to put on any makeup, so she just put some in her purse and put it on while she was on the train. 

we rushed out of the subway and made it to the theater with ten minutes to spare, in which we bought 2 bottles of water, some reesees piecees (what i call them) and some peanut m&ms. then we rushed to our seats and the show started. it was a really good musical, but about halfway through the first act, some person had to go to the bathroom, and she was on the aisle seat so she had to lean back to let them by. but when she leaned back she ripped her skirt on this little nail thing that was poking out of her seat. so at the intermission we found the manager and told him what had happened and he gave us this ridiculous cushion that was supposed to protect her from the nail, and which consequently made her look about 6 inches taller. she gave up on the cushion idea and just sat on the edge of her seat the rest of the show. the music is great in this play, and they had alot of funny lines in it too. after the show we went to starbucks cuz i had to go to the bathroom and the line was extremely long at the theater, and my aunt got a chai latte just cuz, and then we went home and went to sleep. we were exhausted, it was a pretty long day. tomorrow were going to brooklyn and we're going to see the murakami exhibit at BAM. 

k well bi! -lily

 i got the phoenix roll which was "crab, tuna, avocado and masago (fish eggs, which arent that bad) with salmon on top". it was really good. my aunt got the eel lover's combo which had eel (duh), avocado, taikiko (dont ask me what that is, cuz i don't kno. she didnt either.), and this sauce poured on top. the other part of the combo was just eel and rice tied together with a strip of seaweed (i forget what that's called). i had never tried eel before so i decided to try one of hers and it was really yummy. i gave her one of mine in return for the one i ate.