OH MY GOODNESS, last weekend was probably the best one of my life... So, I'm going to try to express the warm feeling my heart is enchanted with everytime I think about those one way signs and skyscrapers. To preface this, I want you to know that I'm experiencing withdrawals, and might actually start crying because I'm not there right this second. So, on with the story:
My sister(Anna), two aunts(Riri and Aunt Gail), cousin(Laece) and I went to NYC because we three girls combined our birthday gifts in order to go see Wicked and have a fun weekend. So, needless to say, we were anxious to get there. :o)
We left on Friday night and actually arrived at LaGuardia airport in Queens at 1 AM on Saturday morning. A baggage claim, taxi ride, and hotel settlement later, it was 3 AM and we were starving. So, we went out in search of food. And oh my goodness, my very favorite part of New York is that it doesn't sleep and you can find any quality of food at anytime in the day or night... it knows me through and through. :o) We found food at this awesome deli and finally got back to the Hilton off 6th at 4 to go to sleep. That was Friday (and part of Saturday)
Saturday morning we walked about 10 blocks to an open market (full of fake everything, tshirts, etc.) which was on our way to our Downtown bus tour. We actually got to stop at a wax museum to get our tickets and saw statues of Whoopi Goldberg and Samuel L. Jackson in the lobby, which was really fun. We then got on the tour bus and went all over downtown (including Greenwich Village (my future home), Soho, Chinatown, Little Italy, the Financial district, the Fashion district, the Fulton Fish Market, etc.) stopping in Chinatown and Little Italy for some exploring, shopping, and sightseeing, including getting lost and finding our way back. :o) We ate at a little bistro in Little Italy called Positano's, which was amazing, and finally got back to the bus to finish the tour. Later on, instead of seeing Wicked on broadway, because of the stagehand strike (go stagehands!), we went to the Empire State Building and got to see the city at night when it's really alive. It was so beautiful!
On Sunday we got up early to go to our Uptown tour after grabbing some delicious off-the-street croissants, and on the way we got to walk up 5th avenue... we saw Trump Tower, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Plaza Hotel, and many designer stores I couldn't believe I was even near them! We got on the bus, which took us from one end of Central Park through the West Side, up through Columbia University, into Harlem, across the tracks, and back through the East Side. It was all so gorgeous! For lunch we had Ray's Pizza (definitely not the original) and world famous cheesecake at Lindy's Restaurant, which was definitely delicious. And I MIGHT have gotten my first real cup of coffee at Lindy's to go with the cheesecake.. no, I still don't like coffee. :o) Later that afternoon, Riri, Anna and I went to see the NBC Studio Tour, where we got to see the sets of the Conan O'Brien show, Saturday Night Live (definitely my favorite), and Anna got to be a weather girl in the simulated news studio they had for us. Needless to say, it was hilarious. :o) We ended up meeting up with Laece and Aunt Gail for dinner at the Tang Pavilion chinese restaurant for some amazing dinner, and went to the hotel for a great night's sleep before an early start the next day.
Monday morning after I gave my heart away to the New York bagel and cream cheese, we got to go on a Circle Line Cruise tour around the island, which brought us by the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges. Our tour guide was a kook, but it was a great tour all the same. :o) After the tour we got to eat lunch at the Stardust diner, which is a great little place where the servers all sing while you eat, trying to pick up a job on broadway, of course. It was really fun and so hard to leave, because after that we had to go back to the hotel to get our luggage ready for take-off. :o( However, Anna and I got some time to ourselves so we could go to Times Square to get some last minute souvenirs, bagels for the flight (of course), and some really artsy pictures.
Then we left, and I haven't been the same since... I've fully decided to live there someday, and for a good while, too. It's a magical city where the people don't care, every block is filled with more culture than fathomable, and no one ever sleeps. I love it through and through... no doubt about it. So that was our trip! Now you need to go see my pictures.... they're much better than reading this. :o)
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