souvenir

I like to buy things for my friends whenever I go on trips. I sent out some of my souvenirs yesterday. Today, a souvenir I bought while I was in New York came in. I bought a cheesecake from Carnegie Deli. A couple of cheesecakes, actually. I bought one for myself to enjoy with my family and I bought one for the Respiratory department in the hospital I work in with the intention of it arriving before I got back from New York. Apparently, it wasn't as easy as that. It actually took some time before Carnegie Deli shipped out my cheesecakes and by the time I got back from NY, the cakes hadn't even been shipped out yet.

Well, they were sent out yesterday and I received the above box at work along with another larger box. I asked my boss, Joe, to open the large cheesecake (12-inch plain) and set it out in the Respiratory break room for all to share and place the smaller one(6-inch chocolate) in the fridge so I could take it home. I was at a different "campus" (our Hospital is made up of three three different hospitals/campuses around SF) when they arrived so it was almost like how I'd originally planned it. That the cakes would get there and be a surprise for my co-workers. Well, they got their cake and I got mine. When I got home, I unwrapped it (as below left), removed it from it's vacuum packaging (as below right) and placed it in the refrigerator to thaw a bit more. I'll have a slice later, but, I'm sure it will be heavenly. Like the one I had on the east coast not so long ago...