On their way back to California, Rick and Himena stopped in New York for a few days. While Rick met with his lawyer, Himena made a completely unnecessary purchase on the hot asphalt of Manhattan. No matter how hard she tried to focus on buying maternity clothes, her gaze kept wandering to the baby equipment department. Since she no longer had to hide her pregnancy, she was now free to rummage through cute, miniature clothes and choose something for their unborn child. The choice of colors was made difficult by the fact that she did not know the gender of the child, so she opted for yellow and green. She bought several pieces of each color. She also found a hand-stitched white blanket in which she would wrap the baby when she came out of the maternity ward. As she inspected things on the sh
