To celebrate my birthday, I treated myself to a trip to NYC. I took my mother-in-law along for the ride & we visited with my sister Vladimir, who lives there, & my other sister Beavis who came in from Phoenix.
THURSDAY: we arrived @ 10am & I was dead tired from our flight. I still chose to venture out on my own (w/my mother-in-law) & see the sites. I had forgotten how loud trains are. Holy crap! Anyway, we made our way to the Natural History Museum but then thought we should eat 1st. After walking for what seemed like forever the only decent thing we found was Zabar's on Broadway. After all that, we decided we were too tired to go to the museum & headed back to my sister's apartment. That evening, my sister arrived from Phx & we had dinner at the best place ever, Dinosaur Barbecue. Yum!
FRIDAY: I swear it was the crack of dawn when I was back on a bus headed to my sister's school where she teaches 7/8 science. This was probably my favorite part of the trip. This day will get to be a whole separate entry of it's own later on.
That evening, we spent it in Times Square. OK, so I really thought that in movies they just put a bunch of extra people to make it look busy. So wrong! It was insane with people! TV does not do Time Square justice. Crazy! While we were there, we decided to get tickets to see Legally Blond the Musical. So fun!
SATURDAY: Another day where I'm back on a train at the crack of dawn. When you're on vacation shouldn't you be able to sleep in later than you do at home? My sisters & I did a 6:30am temple session. Very cool. Who knew the temple was across the street from Julliard? You think we would've seen it in movies.
Later that day we walked the Brooklyn Bridge. It was beautiful to see. I also went to Canal St to get a Gucci purse & D&G sunglasses (wink, wink).
OK, so this day was also my birthday & my sisters took me out for dinner that night. We ate at the yummy Serendipity restaurant. We had a frozen hot chocolate! It's to die for!
This is also the day where NYC decided to hit 90 degrees. It was the start of my heat misery.
SUNDAY: I took a stand this morning & decided I would NOT wake up early. Fortunately, my sisters felt the same. We decided we would take the ferry to Staten Island so we could see the Statue of Liberty. Wow! It was pretty awesome to see!
Just so you know this was day 2 of death by heat. It reached mid 90's & it was humid as all-get-out. We then headed to the financial district to see Ground Zero. Although all the letters & pictures were gone & they've started construction, you couldn't help but feel sadness for what happened there. We did a LOT of walking this day. We went to SOHO, Chinatown, Greenwich Village, & who knows where else we were. It was all a blur.
MONDAY: NYC has now reached high 90's & we're pretty sure we're going to melt into the street. It's our last day so we make another attempt to go to the Natural History Museum. We get there & decide we would rather walk through Central Park & go to the Met. So we take a leisure walk through Central Park & go from the Upper West side to the Upper East Side. Mind you, we were dying of heat while we took this "leisure" walk. What felt like an hour later, we arrived at the Met just to have it be closed. Lovely...
The flight home was relaxing & cool. Air conditioning, cars, how did I ever live without them? Now don't get me wrong, I had a great time. It was exhausting but it was fun. I couldn't have asked for better people to be there with. I enjoy nothing more than to laugh with my sisters... Thanks for a great time ladies. Vladimir, before I come to visit you in Chicago, you better have AC & a car. My body still hasn't cooled down & I swear I can still hear the roaring of the trains...
8 comments:
Awesome post! I would love to go to NY one day. I am so glad that your sisters and named Vladimir and Beavis. Those are super cool names, especially for girls. Can we see more photos, please?
did you not realize that all you do in new york is walk? definitely not a leisurely vacation. so when you got your gucci purse did they open up a wall and let you in a secret room? that's what they did for us in china town. i hope legally blonde was awesome. i told you i saw it on mtv. i felt like i was there. anyway, sounds like you had so much fun. i'm jealous of the trip, but definitely not of the heat. you definitely got screwed by the weather. i hate humidity.
Wow! That sounds like a lot of walking, but so much fun. I would love to visit both Chicago and New York sometime, especially from all you've talked about here and previous conversations. More sunglasses, hope you keep tabs on them(nudge, nudge).
hello, sister
I'm so glad you got to go to New York. I been there once and i totally loved. I visited the same places that you went and I know what you mean by walking hundreds of miles. I did that too, but also pushing a stroler with my 1 year old daughter. You look like a total New Yorker on those pictures! Say hi to Vladimir and Beavis to me, I miss them.
sounds so fun and I am jealous!! I have never been there, but I am sure I am missing something there....the food.
Hope you had a memorable and great time
Oh hooray! I had totally forgotten about this trip that you had in store for yourself. Sounds like a lot of fun and like you saw a whole lot for not being there all that long. I'm glad that you survived the heat. Happy belated birthday! I actually thought about you on Saturday and then quickly forgot about you when one of my kids started bossing me around. Oh well. Love you though.
Man you are so fun! I loved seeing you by the way at my Mom's!! What an adventureous girl you are!! Sounds like a way cool trip!!!
I should have gone with you!
That sounds like so much fun!
When you go to Chicago, I'm coming OK? Happy Birthday! Let's take the front runner to the gateway one Friday and I will buy you lunch!
Love You!!!
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