LOWER EAST WEEKEND

two words for you! tacos, and doughnut plant. that's three words but we'll live.

on saturday brandon let me drag his tush down to la esquina for tacos, finally. and i'm sorry, but i feel a tangent coming on.

so, my husband is this funny guy. he does not like things that are trendy. if you tell him you want to try a place based on its popularity he'll roll his eyes at you so hard . . . but if you tell him it's a hole in the wall that will likely give him botulism, well. he is all over that. so getting brandon to la esquina, which is both a hole in the wall and a really popular place, took some finagling for a good long while before friday night when i suggested it (again) and he was suddenly, out of nowhere, totally up for it. he's sort of the purest essence of hipster, i like to think. wearing his grandmother's birkenstocks and eschewing materialism and thinking trends are soo beneath him. but then don't tell HIM that.

it ended up being the perfect outing, just us three chickens wandering through the lower east side on a chilly saturday afternoon. after the tacos and on our way to the doughnuts we passed a few overly trendy restaurants that made brandon roll his eyes, when suddenly he said, while deep in thought, "you know, i just noticed i'm wearing exactly the same clothes as all these people . . ." 

i know, brandon. i know.

anyway. tacos.

▲▲▲ i have such googly eyes for this huck boy lately, and he is becoming a hard-core mama's boy in return. i love it i love it i love it.

▲▲▲ two horchata for the road

▲▲▲ brandon stopped in at a bodega for a soda and huck somehow talked his way into a package of jelly beans.  i'd tell you how thrilled it made him but i think you can see it for yourself.

▲▲▲ from la esquina to the doughnut plant in stuy town is a longer walk than we expected, but it was worth it to snag the last of the day's creme brûlées. 

we ended the day with a quick stop at the playground at hester street to burn off all that sugar and then went home for some downton abbey for us and some donald duck for the small man. 

hope your weekend was lovely as well.

update:

for everyone who's asked, the boots are from anthropologie last fall, and the sweater is from zara last summer.

and i'm almost never in flats so i guess i'm the wrong person to ask, but they are super comfortable + sturdy. much more comfortable than flats ;).