{"id":175,"date":"2012-05-11T21:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T01:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.laughinglyeverafter.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2012-05-17T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T01:23:23","slug":"nyc-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.laughinglyeverafter.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"NYC here we come!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay it’s time to blog about this trip. \u00a0As you know this was mine and Matt’s 1 year anniversary trip. We decided to go to NYC since I had never been and we could make it a long weekend. \u00a0{I will be running out of PTO days soon if we take another long trip.}<\/p>\n

Matt decided we needed to be up around 4:30am on Friday to make our 7:20 flight. \u00a0Ughhh! \u00a0I hate waking up early and I really thought this might be an issue but my body had other ideas. \u00a0It decided to wake up at 4. \u00a0JOY! \u00a0I rolled over and found Matt awake too so we decided to just get up and get going. \u00a0We left the house around 5:30ish and headed for the park and ride. \u00a0The park and ride is pretty awesome and cheap! \u00a0<\/em>We arrived at the airport and I grabbed some breakfast before getting on the plane.<\/p>\n

The flight from RDU to JFK was pretty quick, just over an hour. \u00a0Once we got to JFk we found a taxi and headed into the city. \u00a0Um, now let me just talk about our cab driver. \u00a0He didn’t say one word to us except to ask where we were going. \u00a0And then it was like a mad man driving. \u00a0{Granted I never actually felt like we were going to die but holy crap they are BAD drivers!} \u00a0He managed to get us to our hotel in one piece but I am pretty sure there are no rules for driving and there are certainly not any lines to follow. \u00a0But enough about our cab ride. \u00a0I will say the drive was interesting. \u00a0Not really what I expected though I’m not sure what I expected. \u00a0I felt it looked kind of run down and dirty. \u00a0Seeing the skyline as we drove in was pretty cool though.<\/p>\n

After about an hour in the cab we finally arrived at the Chambers hotel<\/a>. \u00a0The hotel was very nice and had a funky modern flare to it. \u00a0We were told our room wouldn’t be ready til noon so we left our bags and hit the street. \u00a0Now is probably a really good time to mention I completely forgot my Rainbows at home and I wore my Lucky Brand boots on the plane. \u00a0That’s right I started walking the city in boots.<\/p>\n

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Our hotel was at the corner of 5th and 56th<\/a> so to our left was Harry Winston. \u00a0Across the street was Trump Tower, Louis\u00a0Vuitton, Gucci and a host of other super high end places. \u00a0We walked for a little while and Matt informed me taking pics was out of the question since people would run me over. \u00a0Hmmm. \u00a0I randomly took a few pics as I could\u00a0maneuver\u00a0my way into a corner or out of the main walking paths. \u00a0We found a Pret A Manager and grabbed some yummy snacks and rested our feet before heading over to the Flat Iron building. \u00a0The plan was to go to the Shake Shack for lunch.<\/p>\n

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When we got to the Park where Shake Shack was the line was stupid long so we decided to wait a little while for lunch. \u00a0Around this time my feet were\u00a0absolutely\u00a0killing me and I told Matt it was time to find new shoes. \u00a0He found the world’s largest Macy’s about 10 blocks away so we headed there. \u00a0OMG, I have never seen such chaos in a department store before in my life and guys this was a Friday in May. \u00a0WTF?!? \u00a0Ladies shoes were on the 3rd and 4th floors so we rode the cool old wooden escalador up. \u00a0Matt ran to the bathroom while I tried to wrap my head around the chaos that was Macy’s. \u00a0I found a couple pairs of flip flops but I was so\u00a0discombobulated\u00a0I just grabbed a pair, quickly tried them on and went to pay. \u00a0As I was standing in line I realized I had nothing to actually use to buy shoes. \u00a0Matt had all my money. \u00a0Dammit. \u00a0I waited for him to return and finally paid for my new shoes. \u00a0They weren’t the best but by no means were they as bad as my boots.<\/p>\n

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We left Macy’s and walked around to Madison Square Garden before heading back to the park for Shake Shack. \u00a0Of course the line was still stupid long so we continued our walking. \u00a0We finally ended up at Momofuku ssam bar<\/a>. \u00a0We got the steamed pork buns and they were delicious. \u00a0After lunch we started to make our way back towards the hotel. \u00a0Honestly I have no clue as to where exactly we went. \u00a0Matt decided we could take the Metro back only to realize there were no restrooms in the metro station and I was about to die. \u00a0This turned into find restroom and head back to the metro.<\/p>\n

We got back to our hotel around 4:30 and laid down for a while. \u00a0I tried to wash the black off my feet but they are still dirty looking, almost a week later.<\/p>\n

That night we asked the\u00a0concierge where a good place to go to dinner was and he said Bistro Milano<\/a>\u00a0which was one block away. \u00a0Sold! \u00a0He recommended a few dishes and called to let them know we would be right over. \u00a0We were lucky to snag a table outside but as the evening went on it began to get chilly. \u00a0Being the amazing husband he is, Matt ran back to the hotel to grab my sweater. \u00a0Our food arrived and I was less then impressed with my pizza (which was recommended) but Matt’s pasta was amazing so we ended up sharing that basically. \u00a0Our waitress was HORRIBLE! \u00a0She took our order and we didn’t see her until we asked another waiter for the check. \u00a0I was seriously tempted to just leave but Matt didn’t want to go to jail on our first night. \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0I will say her tip reflected her shitty service, so much so that we took a pic of the receipt. \u00a0I wanted to leave tip: \u00a0Learn some customer service but Matt left actual money.<\/p>\n

So that was basically our first day in NYC. \u00a0I think we walked at least 50 miles and guys these feet are NOT<\/em> made for walking. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

~K<\/p>\n

I’ll post all the pics on my photography website in the next day or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay it’s time to blog about this trip. \u00a0As you know this was mine and Matt’s 1 year anniversary trip. We decided to go to NYC since I had never been and we could make it a long weekend. \u00a0{I will be running out of PTO days soon if we take another long trip.} Matt decided we needed to be up around 4:30am on Friday to make our 7:20 flight. \u00a0Ughhh! \u00a0I hate waking up early and I really thought…<\/p>\n

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