con spirito orchestra audition

c had an audition at third street today for the beginning orchestra group. her sight reading was a little slow so we don't know yet if she made it. she was a little nervous. afterwards, we had sorbet and ice cream at sundaes and cones on 10th street just off 3rd avenue. we always pass it on our way to music class and we were wondering how good their ice cream was. well . . not good enough for a second time! (unfortunately). . . after the ice cream we drove to the upper east side as we had a gift certificate for reading cinemas on 86th street and third avenue. we saw disney pixar's UP. it was a lot of fun and a great movie, but a little scary for c! (though, not one cute little dog died . . which i was very happy about . . and c too . . )

prices!

prices in my neighborhood can be a little absurd. i walked into my health food store the other day and stared in stupefaction at this chocolate ice-cream container in the freezer section. really, $6.99 for a pint of ice-cream? of course my daughter pointed out to me that it IS goat milk ice-cream and the name IS quite cute. la-loo. la-loo's goat's milk ice cream company: deep chocolate and vanilla snowflake. very pretty names! but . . we went with the stonyfield which was only $3.99; downright cheap in comparison. but there was still no chocolate in my bag so we high-tailed it over to dagostino's which always gets my goat (!) because they can charge crazy numbers too. $5.50 for haagen dazs chocolate. i know my sister will tell me to go for the turkey hill or the friendly's, but they just don't taste the same.
while at dagostino's i had fun comparing the horizon organic cheese slices (which i like to have on my sandwiches) with what i usually pay at my coop: only $6.49! (as opposed to the coop's $3.59). of course the creme de la creme is the boursin cheese ball: only $7.49 for the little guy, which i can buy for $1.89 at east village cheese and which i always feel very smug about. (i hope i haven't jinxed east village cheese. stores close right and left here because rents are raised astronomically).