Our Last Days in NYC

The last few days in New York City were ice cold -- which means I was not very motivated to remove my icicles fingers from my gloves to take pictures. Since there aren't too many left I thought I'd share all of them in one last NYC post.

How could we visit Manhattan without paying tribute to the thousands of lives lost on September 11, 2001?



I was eager to see the memorial site but, after seeing it, I felt that it could do with some improvement. It is comprised of two overwhelmingly large marble rectangular fountains, each of which represent one of the World Trade Center's towers. The marble is inscribed with the names of all those who lost their lives in the attacks. And... that's it. I guess I expected more of a tribute. Music? Maybe a wall with a poem? Flags? A video? Slideshow?



We lasted all of fifteen minutes outside admiring the fountains before we hurriedly ducked into the museum/souvenir shop on the way out. That was more like it. Besides all of the NYPD and NYFD swag they sold, there was a photo montage on the walls depicting the events minute by minute. What I, and most people in the room I daresay, found most moving, however, was a short documentary that was playing on loop on a screen in the room. The video followed the lives of 6(?) people whom were all directly affected by the terrorist attack in different ways. I don't know if there was anybody in the room not crying or at least fighting back tears.

We thought we would spend the rest of the afternoon in Soho and Greenwich Village but IT WAS SO FREAKING COLD! After snapping a few pictures outside of NYU (mine & Bailey's future school????) we hopped on the subway and headed back to our hotels.



Dinner at Shake Shack. Omg. I could go for a shack burger with a caramel shake right now.



I *think* that night we went to another comedy show, which was hilarious, except for a cow-tipping, homophobic, socially awkward comedian. Urrbody else was coo tho.

Okay don't make fun of us, but for our last night in the city and we had to do SOMETHING to celebrate!!! I have absolutely no photographic evidence because I was too busy stuffing my face but, that night, we ordered empanadas for delivery at like midnight. If you are ever in NYC, order from Empanada Mama! I can't even describe the mouthgasms we had that night. Shout out to the caramel + cheese empanadas we had, complete with a fat scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Anyway, on our last day in New York, we contemplated going to get some more empanadas hahahaha. Instead we returned to one of our favorites, Georgies. I really wanted pancakes but they made me get a poopy lobster burger :(



We had a long, slow lunch and then walked over the the McAfees' hotel. On our way there, Marie & Jazzy intercepted us to let us know that somebody on the street offered them tickets to the David Letterman show!! Our flight to LA left that afternoon but we had just enough time to watch the show and then get to the airport.



We were reallyyyyyy excited for the show and then I'm pretty sure everybody fell asleep. Ummmmmm why didn't anybody tell me that David Letterman is that boring! My God! Can't believe I wasted hours of my life at that taping. I guess it was a cool experience, though.. Kinda. It turns out Tina Fey was on the show the next day, so maybe that would've made it better.

So that was the end of our trip to NYC! I hope you've enjoyed reading about it and seeing our pics :)
I'm almost done sharing pictures from my six months in South America too. THEN WHAT WILL I WRITE ABOUT?!!?! (See "Day Zero Project").

heehee. bye.

See more of my trip to New York here: Part I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and part VII. ♥

How We Do The Met

After experiencing the magic that is Dean & Deluca, we couldn't help but to stop there for breakfast again the very next day. Michelle was at the register purchasing chocolate-dipped macaroons (the coconut drops, not those fancy french treats), as she did the day before, explaining to the employee that she is allergic to most flours. And then, something happened that made us love the place even more -- they told us they had a whole selection of gluten-free pastries!!!! Michelle chose this muffin and I can't for the life of me remember what it was... I think it was like a brown sugar nut muffin or something. Made with potato flour? Mitch, what was it again?? Anyway, that made us all very happy. I really wanted the chocolate pistachio pastry again but I picked the raspberry almond croissant instead. Delish.



We spent the rest of the day at The Met, although that was not nearly enough time. I now understand why people purchase annual passes there... it is absolutely impossible to take in all there is to see in one day. I was exhausted after and I barely made a dent in the exhibits.



Some pictures of us on the steps, so GG ♥



We started off in what I think was the Baroque era, which, needless to day, was one of the more boring sections... hahah :/ so Mitch gave us homework: we all had to draw our favorite piece.



I guess we are pretty immature, so we got bored pretty quickly. We decided to spice things up by taking our own interpretations of the artwork.



That was the end of that haha. Hope you enjoyed. We decided to take the museum a little more seriously.



Bay and I wandered off at this point and didn't see anybody until the museum closed. We went to see the Byzantine art, Egyptian art, and Asian art.



I drew this mosaic later for my "homework". She reminded me of Princess Jasmine. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of my masterpiece



Starving and exhausted, Bay and I left the museum. We found Ryan outside on the steps alone eating a pretzel. We immediately joined him. I had no money with me so Bailey bought us a pretzel hahaha ♥



Our pretzels didn't do the job so we walked over to a little sushi spot, where our family joined us.



The moms had a fair share of sapporo



And then I opened a beautiful fortune



funny pictures of our shenanigans in the hotel to end the post:



See more of my trip to New York here: Part I, II, III, IV, V, and VI ♥