So I figured I would do a mini travel blog again during this trip to New Tork City since I’ve been rather delinquent with posting lately. Jeremy and I decided to come up for memorial day weekend so I’m going to try and document all the goings on, hopefully it will help me remember and catalogue all the pictures I will take too 😉
We left Richmond at 4pm and landed a brief hour later at laguardia. The whole flight I was watching out the window trying to figure out what we were flying over at that particular moment. Noticed there are a lot of circular tracks on the way up here, don’t know if they were race tracks or what but there were dozens on the few hundred miles I was gazing out the window, weird.
Anyway, we landed, hopped on the M60 with just about the entire rest of the airport and took a bus ride through the Bronx, over the bridge to manhattan, where we got on the subway to our hotel. Now here’s the great thing about our hotel, the Cosmopolitan in TriBeCa, it is right next to the Chambers street subway stop, yay for short walks to the subway! So after dropping off our bags, Jeremy and I went in search of dinner. I had been to Chinatown for lunch the last time I was in the city and, since we are within walking distance of there from our hotel, we decided to go pick a random place there to have some dinner. We wandered around a bit, past multiple fruit stands and one smelly fish market and ended up at a little noodle shop that had a huge menu and was relatively tourist-free. I had shanghai noodles with roast pork and dumplings and jeremy had sweet and sour chicken, both were very good. I can’t quite place what the flavor was in the noodle broth, maybe just miso, but it was really tasty. After dinner it was about 8:30 so we decided to hop on the subway and pay homage to the 5th avenue Apple store and walk around and look in the windows of all the über expensive stores of 5th Avenue. By that time we were both getting pretty tired so we decided to head back to the hotel for the night. Noticed on the way back we were “going home” just as most of the folks our age are getting ready to “go out”, am I getting old or what? 😉
Tomorrow if the weather is nice I think we’re gonna go to the Bronx zoo (if not then museums) then we’re meeting up with my college friend Mike for dinner at an Italian place that he highly reccomends, should be a lot of fun. For now? definitely time for bed, g’night all.