we stayed in a hotel right off of 5th avenue which was nice for me because while he was in meetings for the first couple of days, i got to roam around a bit on my own and do some shopping.
new york city has this charm that no other city has. what i love is the constant rush of people. and the fact that even though i spent a lot of my time walking around by myself, or even having lunch alone at different restaurants/cafe, i never really felt alone necessarily. it's great to be able to be by yourself, but not really ever be alone at the same time. something i love about this place. :)
the first day on my own consisted of having lunch at the pizza cafe right across from our hotel (because why wouldn't you have pizza while in new york city???) then i grabbed some coffee (or espresso, rather) from starbucks and did some window shopping on 5th avenue. until i saw h&m where i ditched the window shopping and did some actual shopping. ;)
the following day i spent lunchtime at cafe manhattan where i had this yummy turkey sandwich, then made my way back to starbucks to work on some writing. :) it was more of a relaxed day. oh, and i wore my brand new shirt from h&m as well (pictured above ;) )
while it was fun spending some time on my own, i was more excited when the husband came and found me at starbucks after his meetings were done and said we were off to see the statue of liberty since he got done early. :)
we decided to take the subway which, for newcomers like us, ended up being a pain in the you know what. the map was super confusing and we ended up getting off at the wrong station two or three times. :/ still, if you're going to the city, you may as well experience everything, so i'm glad we gave it a try. ;)
we went on an hour long boat tour from staten island which took us around to see the freedom tower, the statue of liberty, and a couple of the bridges. afterwards, we walked lower manhattan to go see wall street. we also saw this super fancy tiffany & co. which was so, so pretty from inside. i decided to be a total loser and take a picture with the doorman. ;)
because of my husband's obsession, we visited the halal guys quite a few times. but after having that two-three times, i ventured out myself and had amazing cheese pizza from ray's, and too many hot dogs from one of the food trucks in times square. also, due to my own obsession, we visited magnolia bakery a couple of times. i'd recommend their banana pudding. it's yummy :)
visiting times square is always so fun :)
"these lights are so bright but they never blind me.."
the only downside to the entire trip was the cold weather. especially on our last day when it snowed the entire day and the following night. new york city is breathtaking under a few inches of snow, but not so fun to have to walk around in. :/
instead of bringing back t-shirts for the family as souvenirs, we got everyone platters from the halal guys since we're all obsessed. it was totally worth it. everyone loved it. :)
i'm already missing the city and all of it's craziness. until next time, new york!
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