Wednesday: Charley and I picked Jessica up from the airport and dropped her bags off quick at the apartment and were off to our first adventure.. the Brooklyn Bridge. It was such a pretty time of night to go and we got to see the sun set and then the city lights light up the sky! It was beautiful to see Manhattan all lit up as we walked across the bridge. Grimaldi's pizza is right by the bridge, so afterward, we met up with Spencer and had pizza at Grimaldi's. Grimaldi's is pretty much the best pizza around (I like Julianna's better but Grimaldi's is more popular)... and you can't go wrong with the regular pie of tomato sauce, mozzarella and basil. It's the classic here in NYC.
Our our way home from Chelsea Market, we stopped to get dinner at Bahnmigo's.. our favorite Vietnamese Pho place and then Jessica and I took off to see a Broadway show. We got tickets to Chicago! I thought it would be more like the movie with lots of colors in every scene... but it was a different Broadway show. The orchestra was on stage for the entire thing, so there were no new sets. The actors sang and danced in front the whole time. Their singing and dancing was really good, but the production was just ok. It was still fun to see a new show! And afterward made up for it. One of Jessica's friend's had recommended going to Ellen's Stardust Diner, so after the show, we went! It was SO FUN! You get into this diner and can order food, drinks and dessert and the waiters and waitresses sing while you eat! They had AMAZING voices too! It was so fun. The owner got on the microphone a few times and one time said that most of these waiters/waitresses go on to sing in the real Broadway shows. Last year 16 made it to Broadway.. so it's a great starting place for them. We loved eating our dessert and listening to them sing the rest of the night! We walked around Times Square for about 5 seconds but it was so windy and cold, we decided not to stay too long since the temperature outside said it felt like -12 degrees!!!
Friday: okay Friday morning was freezing! Again in the negatives, so we slept in, I did a workout with Charley and relaxed during the morning. We left around Charley's nap and left her with Spencer at home while we went to Union Square. We saw the flat-iron building, went into Fish's Eddy, shopped at Lulu Lemon and ate at Sweetgreen Salads (only the best salad in the world!) After we shopped around and got a few things at Lulu, we went back home to pick up Charley and went to Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty. There were actual ice chunks in the Hudson river it was so cold! We got there right around sunset, so we got some pretty amazing pictures! We saw that the free Staten Island Ferry had windows on it (I thought it was an open ferry and would be freezing) so we made it right on time to jump on the ferry and get even closer to the Statue of Liberty! It was such a beautiful time to take the ferry and we got to see the sunset and then the black sky with the Manhattan lights in the distance!
After China Town we went up to Macy's on 34th street and looked around for a bit before walking up 5th Ave and stopping in a few pricy stores! Jessica wanted to go into Tiffany's where we later found out it is the original Tiffany's and the one on Sweet Home Alabama! She walked away with a super pretty bracelet! We walked from 34th street all the way up to 70th street where we ran into Central Park and walked around for a while. It had started to snow a bit and was actually really pretty in the park! After taking a few pictures in the park, we stopped at Burrito Box for lunch and then came home because we were cold and wet! We did happen to see this on the Subway though! Classic New York. This girl reading her book definitely DOES NOT know the man laying on her shoulder OR the girl laying on the man who is laying on her shoulder, but being the nice New Yorker she is, let's him take a cat-nap on her during their Subway ride:!)
Thank you so much Jessica for coming!! It was so fun to see you and play in the City!
