The Big Apple

I'm really, really awful at coming up with titles. But this post should be quite entertaining besides my cliché title.


From the 26th - 27th Mom, Vik, and I went to New York City for the second time. Of course the weekend we're there hurricane Irene decides to come along for the visit too. Did she touch Florida? Of course not. So this led to a mostly uneventful city that never sleeps because, well, everyone decided to close shop and go home and (probably) sleep. I swear, every time I go to NYC something has to go wrong. Last time, I didn't have my main lens. Not a huge issue, but it bothered me and made me have less fun the entire time we were there. This time everything was closed. Hopefully November's trip can go through without a hitch. Hopefully.

So we left left Jax at 7:30am and arrived in DC sometime around 9, or maybe it was 10, I don't really remember. Vik's flight to NY was leaving just as we got there, so she hopped on the plane and mom and I had our hour layover. After some horrible coffee and a decent bagel we got on our plane and landed at LaGuardia around noon. A long bus and train ride later we made it to Hotel Edison, which I've concluded is run by the mafia. After changing out of our gross travel clothes we ate at the overpriced TGIFriday's in Times Square and did a little wandering. This led us to find the Al Herschfeld Theatre, which really was no coincidence because I had every intention of going there in the first place. After some drama (and ok, maybe some tears) I ended up with a (very expensive) ticket to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Needless to say I was the happiest girl ever that night. 

mr. radcliffe's back ;)

The show was absolutely fastastic, and I could really ramble about it's goodness for an obnoxious amount of time, but I digress. I hope more than anything to be able to see it again before the year is up and Daniel Radcliffe is no longer the lead. 


So day two included Ray's pizza (+ garlic knots!) and Vik's move-in and some rain. Basically we moved her in, walked down 3rd Ave to find out every grocery store was closed, made it to union sqaure, had some Dunkin Donuts, and caught a cab back to the hotel. Dinner for the night was mission impossible, but we ended up finding a deli (ok, we didn't have to look too hard, it was next to the hotel) and had burgers and chips. We watched some movies, complained about how we couldn't see Doctor Who, and called it a night. 

Sunday included waking up to the hurricane that did nothing to Manhattan except make everything close and people scared of nothing. Seriously, it was just a bunch of over-dramatics and a waste of time and money. Anyway. We walked down to 5th Ave. to see if H&M was open...of course it wasn't. So we touristed it up for a bit, wandering in St. Patrick's cathedral, and then walking all the way up 5th. After a quick trip into Trump Tower (one of the many) we made it to Central Park and then walked down 50something back to 7th and walked back towards Times Square. After another trip to Ray's we went back to the hotel and watched more movies. Mom and I realized at some point that in the two trips to NYC we'd never had NYC Cheesecake, so we went to Roxy's and got a slice. It was $10 and quite tasty. We packed up and said goodnight to day three.

Monday was sunny and happy and sad and the day everything changed in our lives. We caught a cab to SVA and bought Vik a few things from the corner store and then said our goodbyes. Mom cried. I told Vik to always tell someone where she was so that she wouldn't get caught between two buildings and have to cut her arm off à la 127 Hours. Mom and I then caught another cab to LaGuardia, had a McD's breakfast, and then were off. Another layover in DC, some chips and queso, and then we were back in the sunshine state. We had to wait about 40 minutes for Kristen to get off work and then pick us up, so we had a Cinnabon in the meantime. Dinner was at Applebee's and once home Kristen and I proceeded to color our hair. (I colored my blonde bits the same red as her whole head.) I don't remember if we did anything else, but I know I slept so good that night. And that was my trip to New York City, version 2.0.

(film shots coming once i get them developed!)