I know it’s been a while since Tiffany and I came back from New York City but I wanted to make a post on my blog about it. I’ve been a little bit busy lately so that’s what’s caused the delay in sharing our trip with everyone.
Here’s some pictures of the trip. I only included like 60 or so but keep in mind that we took over 1,200! (a couple hundred at the Bronx Zoo alone. That will get it’s own blog update).
We did so many things while we were there it’s hard to even remember everything exactly. As soon as we got there, we hopped a bus down to a subway station in an attempt to get to grand central so we could walk to our hotel and dump our luggage. Unfortunately, we took an express train in the wrong direction and it took us a while to figure out how to get back. (fear not, by the 3rd day, we were subway pros!).
When we got to the hotel, we were shown up to our room by, quite possibly, the coolest old man on the planet. I wish so badly that I would have asked him if I could take his picture but I didn’t. After that we headed straight to Central Park to spend the day there. We planned to get all of the outdoor stuff done in the first few days because it was supposed to rain a lot while we were there (it didn’t). So we then spent hours walking all over Central park trying to navigate it from this poorly xeroxed map that we donated $1 to a homeless man to obtain. Once we finally found the Grand Lawn, we plopped down and I fell asleep while Tiffany read her newest book.
That night, we went to The Empire State Building to catch the view of the city at night and it was pretty incredible. It’s hard to imagine that a building that tall is as old as it is.
The next day, we spent most of the day at The Bronx Zoo. This is a crazy huge zoo. I’ll talk more about that in another update. For dinner that night, we went to an incredible Churrascaria and proceeded to stuff ourself with as much meat as we could (and couldn’t) possibly handle in one sitting. Then we went to Times Square and just sat around and enjoyed the lights and bustle.
The next day, we caught the ferry over to Liberty and Ellis Island. Tiffany and I were both surprised at how much time we ended up staying in the Ellis Island Museum. We didn’t know much about the whole process of immigration back then but it was very interesting and informative. That night, for dinner, we went down to the Bleecker street and ate at the coolest Italian restaurant, run by the two coolest Italians on the planet. You can barely even call this place a restaurant, given that there are exactly 6 cramped seats in the whole storefront. The guys were hilarious and talked to us a bunch while we waited for our food to get made. They tod us that since all the chairs were taken up, we could eat on the steps of the church next door, which we did. Before we left, one of the guys told us to wait cause he had to get us some “stuff” to drink (He kind of looked around when he said that). He ran behind the counter and handed us some plastic cups with a yellowish liquid that turned out to be champagne. We were the wrong people to give it to because neither of us drank it but the gesture was awesome.
The next day, we went to the Museum of Natural History and spent most of the day there — The majority of our time there was upstairs in the dinosaur/prehistoric exhibit and then all the way downstairs for the planetarium and space exhibit. That is the coolest science museum ever. That night, we did my favorite thing while we were there and got to see The Lion King on Broadway. I could talk for hours about this play but I can also easily condense it down into one word: Mind-blowing. It’s amazing how they were able to translate scenes from an animated movie to the stage so seamlessly. Never have I seen so much creativity, passion, and production in one place.
The next day, we spent a good bit of time at the Museum of Modern Art. It was pretty awesome to see some of the incredibly famous works of art that I spent so much time studying in college. After that we headed down to Rockerfeller Plaza and just kind of took everything in before visiting Nintendo World! That day was the only day it rained while we were there, despite the weather reports, and it lasted all but 30 mins tops. That night, we ate a pretty cool Thai place and then jumped over to Times Square to catch a showing of Iron Man 2. At the movie theater, I lost hope in humanity (again) because they had around 10 screens showing Sex and the City 2 and every single one of them was sold out. I just don’t get it…
Our last day in The Big Apple was spent in Chinatown, the Brooklyn Bridge, and then all the way uptown for a lunch at Tom’s Diner. For the awesome people out there, this is the diner who’s exterior was used as the favorite coffee shop, Monk’s, in the best show to ever be on TV, Seinfeld.
It was exhausting but way too much fun. Definitely the best trip I’ve ever been on. I can truly see Milton Glaser’s inspiration for his immensely famous logo “I Love NY”
