Remember a really long time ago Zorro and I took a 27 hour trip to NYC? Well....I'm getting around to telling you about it now.
We may or may not have planned almost the entire trip around food we wanted to eat in NYC.
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| everyone sells cheesecake |
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| pizza! at the Metro Cafe |
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| m&m store |
We had a list of other things that Zorro wanted me to see (he's been a couple times) and we were taking a bustrip up with the Photographer, the Stylist and Zorro's folks (and 50 other people we didn't know).
We ate pizza almost the moment we got off the bus. Well. Ok. It would have been, if the hotel had thought through the fact that the tour bus of people coming and staying in a pre-booked block of rooms would all be arriving to check in at the same time (like they do every year). So after it took 20 minutes to check in and leave our luggage we headed for Times Square (hoping to catch
Dance Ad Deum at
Project Dance)
We went up in the Marriot while we were there, it has quite a view from one of the lounges, and the lounge itself wasn't half bad either.
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| on the way to the hotel |
We managed to catch a little bit of Ad Deum at Project Dance, and we swung by a couple of times to chat with my brother (whose dancing we missed, but was then running the sound system). I think we tramped alllll over Times Square, and also explored Grand Central, and that is where I had a bagel.
We retired to the hotel for an hour break after that, then made for Little Italy for dinner. We arrived later than we intended, but still got seats at Nico's and oh my word was that good food. Good coffee too. Reeeally good coffee. Best I've had since being in Italy.
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| Little Italy |
I think we started dinner at 8, and around 9 we went to hit the rest of our sites to see. One the list: WTC, Wall Street, Brooklyn Bridge, and Lady Liberty.
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| subway |
Our plan was to take the Staten Island Ferry, which is free, to get a nice view of Lady Liberty all lit up for the night. We just missed one ferry, and with our hour to kill (the hour between 10:30 and 11:30) we walked down for a view of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was really gorgeous glittering above the water.
We caught the next ferry, which takes about a half hour to get to Staten Island. We got some pretty awesome pictures of the Statue of Liberty. (We also got to sit down, which was great)

And then our ferry docked just as the ferry we needed was leaving. And we were stuck on Staten Island from 12-1am.
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| we were pretty wiped out at this point, it was comedic |
The city mostly sleeps, the people out at this hour of night are interesting. We sat in a row watching the small crowd gather in the ferry terminal waiting for the next ferry.
1:30 am, dock on Manhatten. We walked to the nearest subway stop and stood there waiting for a train for at least 15 minutes before we realized we should have walked to Bowling Green. Then we walked to Bowling Green and waited there. We made memories. I was just happy that I wasn't hungry and that I had gotten an amazing cappachino at Nico's.
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| yeeeah |
We made it back to the hotel around 2:30am :P about two hours later than intended. Which meant that Sunday we got moving about 2 hours later than intended.
There was a monstrous line at Esse's bagel shop, but once laden with our creamcheese stuffed bagels we walked to St. Patrick's Cathedral and then the Rockerfeller Center on the way to Central Park.
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| St. Patricks |
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| Lego store at Rockerfeller Center |
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| sunshine in Central Park |
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| under the bridge by Balto |
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| the carousel |
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| young talent in the subway |
After a delightful hour in the Park lazing around listening to musicians and riding the carousel we went back to Time's Square for some cheese cake at Roxy's. They give big peices. I got the German Chocolate, it was very tasty, but I was still kinda full from the bagel (which had so much cream cheese on it...) so I couldn't finish the whole thing (Zorro ended up eating it while I was in OK :P )
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| german chocolate cheesecake |
After stuffing ourselves with as much cheesecake as we thought wise, we headed to the other end of Times Sq. to catch up with my brother and his fiance before leaving.
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| 15 minutes really isn't enough time |
We had to really hoof it back to the hotel to grab our bags and then Zorro, the Photographer and I made a dash for pizza to take with us. I love this picture because we look so freshly arrived and breathless, still spinning from the momentum for 27.5 hours in NYC. Thank God it was downhill back to the bus!