3 cities in 3 days -- and a new state!

VIP manipedi + visiting baby, fun at Charlotte yummy restaurants

You know your travel schedule is a little crazy when foursquare gives you kudos for checking into three different airports in three days...

First trip was a mama-and-me visit to Charlotte with the baby to see my college friend Jen. I realized that I hadn't visited since right before I got pregs with the Pickle...long time.

I ate well at Soul Gastrolounge and The Crepe Cellar on Friday night while Jen's husband Matt did a bang-up job of first time babysitting. The tiny Soul reminded me of a hipster Michael Symon joint since pork belly and fried brussel sprouts were on the menu. At The Crepe Cellar, we created a new menu item by concocting a mashup of the brownie and banana fosters crepes...mmmm!

On Saturday, we shopped and basked in the 77-degree weather while the Cleve got a dusting of snow (sorry).

On Sunday, Jen pulled some strings (she's so VIP) and got her regular nail and massage places to open up just for us...can't think of a better way to spend St. Paddy's Day! However, I bet Matt would disagree as he was my babysitter and baby chauffeur...at one point, he delivered Sienna to me for a feeding while I was having my toes done!

Flew home on Monday morning to spend the day with the Pickle before a work road trip to Indianapolis. Yay for a pin on the map for Indiana!
 

Delightful dishes at Late Harvest Kitchen, roadtripping to a new state, my packing "helper"

Found a great local spot thanks to Urbanspoon called Late Harvest Kitchen.The locally sourced chicken thighs and gnocchi were amazing! Sticky toffee pudding was good too.

Now, back in NYC until Friday. Time to kick off March Madness and finally fill out my brackets!

5 year blog anni - better late than never

I'm back in TriBeCa for work and am finally sitting down to take a minute to think about how much life has changed since I started writing this blog five years ago from London.

• I've been on about 31 trips to 16 states and 4 countries
• I've been part of March Madness - twice
• I finally got to Asia - twice (Thailand and Japan)
• I ran a crazy ass race that involved four miles and 12 donuts
• I'm flown 8 times while pregs (2 babymoons) and capped off my last pregnancy with a penthouse suite at the Trump SoHo
• I've welcomed two mini traveling companions to the world and took each of them on mommy-and-me trips
• I've learned to live through the annoyance of breastfeeding and biz travel
• I've traveled most frequently to NYC (14) and Vegas (3)

Next up in 2013 is a baby-and-me trip to Charlotte later this month and our first vacation as a family of four in Hilton Head this summer!