I am at work and running on 3 hours of sleep. Why, you ask? Because our flight out of La Guardia last night was supposed to leave at 9:40pm. When did we leave? 12:40am. Not cool. So I definitely did not get back to Birmingham at 11:15pm but instead landed at 1:40am. Not cool. And then I had to drive to Tuscaloosa. When I got to the house (at 3:30am) I realized I was locked out. Not cool. Who locks the door to the garage when the garage door is closed?! So I had to call a friend and go sleep at her place then come to work this morning at 8am. Not cool.
But that's enough complaining because New York was freaking awesome! I experienced pretty much all the big things:
- Empire State Building (really, really tall)
- Broadway (Billy Elliot and In the Heights)
- Statue of Liberty (where I got my foam crown, yessssssss)
- Ellis Island (where my ancestors undoubtably entered America)
- Times Square (where our hotel was actually located)
- Wall Street and the Financial District (complete with picture of the bull)
- Tiffany & Co (I have raised my expectations where rings are concerned...)
- Rockefeller Center (NBC store is where it's at)
- 5th Avenue (can you say shopping???)
- Soho (delicious eats)
- Chinatown ("Chanel Gucci Coach purses? Come to back room? Cop? No, follow me.)
- Coney Island (And famous Nathan's hot dogs and the ferris wheel, wheeeeeee)
- Picture with New York's finest, the NYPD (we even got a smile out of him!)
- World Trade Center memorial site (still so powerful)
- FAO Schwartz (I played on the giant piano!)
- King Tut exhibit (completely awesome, so so so cool)
- Museum of Modern Art (Starry Night! my fave, and so many Picasso paintings, wonderful)
- Central Park (Strawberry Fields forever...)
- Staten Island Ferry (great way to see the Bay and Statue for FREE haha)
I feel like I'm forgetting some stuff but clearly the best question is what didn't I do. Well, I didn't go to a Yankees game although we thought about it, but I'll save that for another trip because I'm sure there will be one. And with that I'll visit Flushing Meadows (where they hold the US Open) since it's right next door; we saw it from the plane and it's pretty freaking impressive!That's pretty much the only thing I missed out on, if you can even call it that.
I'll try to upload the pictures soon (whenever I can get access to the house...), so until then: back to work I go! Yuck
