NYC Day One
Time for a mini vacation! And time for me to post too much about it. :D
Thursday, April 28th, we landed in New York at 3pm. Peaceful flight. I brought Girl Scout cookies and whiskey. (May I say the Samoas and Maker's Mark pairing works.)
We found metro cards and the bus stop and skillfully navigated our way to our hotel. OMG our hotel.
Yotel: New York.
The hotel was a short walk from the Subway and it was gorgeous and ultra modern with a luggage storage robot in the lobby and music from Star Wars in the elevators. Instalove. The bed was comfy, too, which is a priority for us.
With no plans for the first night, we wandered off to explore and found ourselves pretty much ON Times Square, so we shopped, people-watched, and took in this Star Wars exhibit at "Discovery Center". It was very cool to see R2-D2 in the flesh and all the blasters and light saber handles! Loved that. Also amazed at the textures you can't see on the big screen in costumes like Obi-Wan's raw silk kimono and Rey's fine gauze desert dress.
I fangirled quite a bit, and was sorely tempted by the gift shop, particularly by the Storm Trooper clutch purse.
I then dragged Brian to the Hershey store, because I knew I could get a Giant Reese Cup there. It was... like... SO BIG. One half pound each cup so like a hamburger of chocolate and peanut butter.
Jealous of my own past self. I want another one.
Foot-traffic in Times Square was set to "Moooo" and I got quite annoyed at people pushing and shoving their way through a crowd that was, really, not just standing around for no reason, yo.
For dinner we... I forgot. Was that Pony Bar night? OMG weekend so blurry! Yes. Pony Bar. We went wandering looking for food in our neighborhood and found a place called PONY BAR. (My nickname on the football team is Pony. I was excited.) Fabulous Cuban sandwich. Fabulous deep fried pickle nuggets. Fabulous micro-brew. Five out of five Pony Stars.
My glass says "PONY" on it and I didn't steal it. I'm so virtuous.
So that's about it for our first half-day of the weekend jaunt to NYC. We retired to our fabulous hotel 'cabin' for The Daily Show and Nightly Show and planning for the next day.
Continued in NYC Day Two >>