New York Food: Day 3

Today was an exciting culinary adventure!

Breakfast: Me and Kayley went to Europa Cafe for breakfast. I was not to impressed. The food was good enough (minus the burnt English muffin) but the service was horrible! They pretty much lied to our faces. It was about hashbrowns so not the end of the world but still...

Lunch: This was some funky, cheap Chinese. We found this dingy little buffet in Chinatown where you could get 5 entrees + soup for 4 dollars. That should have been our first clue. I didn't even taste the soup. It looked like tofu water...

We then went to get cannolis! It was needed trust me...

Dinner: Ethipiopian!!! So amazing! The bread was a little odd. It was this vinergery, soft, tortilla-like stuff. It was pretty good in small amounts but the acidity was getting to me by the end. I wish I would have had a fork to eat the rest of the food with because it was AMAZING!

When we got back to the hotel Amanda and Robbie, being the amazing people they are, gave me an extra cupcake from their trip to Magnolia Bakery. The best cupcake I have ever had. Period. It had this amazing coconut frosting and it was perfectly moist. I wish the picture was better...that's what I get for trying to take a picture of something that is completely white...

New York Day 3: Last Day to Party

Monday was a lazy day. I slept in and we just walked around the city. We went to 5th Ave. and did some window shopping. This was my favorite window... :)

We went in to Tiffany's! WOW! I wish I would have been allowed to take pictures inside the store because it was amazing! We saw a giant 11 carat ring. It was so big it looked fake. I don't understand why someone would want something that extreme....

We also found Carnegie Hall. It was sort of by accident. We were looking for a hotel that we could sit down in and rest for a little while but instead we found a famous concert hall.

Then we went back to Chinatown and did a lot of shopping. That was exciting! It was fun to watch Felix (he was one of our TAs and basically our guide for the day) try and haggle with the shop keepers. They wouldn't budge and he just kept pushing.

That night a big group of us went and got Ethiopian food for dinner. Would would have thought it would have been as good as it was. I never would have thought that Ethiopia had such good food. It was pretty basic stuff also. Chicken, beef, corn, beans, beets, collard greens. It was like the original soul food! Either way we all had fun!

Good times!

New York Day 2: Sunday in the City

We started our second day in the city by heading to church. It was a little bizzare going to church in the temple. There aren't LDS churches on every block like in Provo or Rexburg. The ward was amazing! It is cool to see that no matter where you go the church is always the same.

Next, we decided to take it easy and spent about 2 and half hours wandering around Central Park. I haven't seen the entire city yet but I can say with a high level of confidence that Central Park is my absolute favorite part of the city. It was overcast and was raining off and on all day and it was a perfect day for a stroll. The park is like in the city without being of the city, if you know what I mean. You could see all of the buildings and cars driving up and down Central Park Way but all that you could hear were the birds chirping. I took lots of pictures so I will just share a few.

This is the fountain from Enchanted!

I thought this was hilarious. I have a morbid sense of humor.

And after much searching we found Strawberry Fields. This a memorial to John Lennon located directly across from the building where he was shot in 1980. I just need to go to Abbey Road and then my life will be complete

Also look what I found.

Then that night the whole team took the subway to Brooklyn to go to a fireside at the Stake President's home. It was...interesting... I could rant for hours about the craziness that was the fireside...Ask me if you really want to know...

New York Food: Day 2

Some more exciting meals!!

Breakfast: Interesting breakfast I know...

And yes, I ate a hotdog. And I loved it! :)

Lunch: I realize this is not interesting or unique in anyway...

Dinner: We went to the Brooklyn Stake President's home and his wife made the entire team dinner. Spectacular!

Then after we got back to the hotel we went to the hotel lounge and got shirley temples. Everyone was looking at us funny and the waiter thought we weren't even worth his time.

New York Food: Day 1

I kept a log of everything I ate while I while I was in the city. This will blow your mind.

Day 1:

Breakfast:

Lunch: This great little Italian place in Little Italy

Dinner: Ray's Pizza (the orginal!)

New York Day 1: The Arrival

I am finally back from my amazing adventures in the big city! For the next few days I will post pictures from all the fun things I did!

We took a red-eye flight from SLC on March 26th to JFK International Airport in New York City! We arrived at 6am and immediately dived into the fun!

 Time Square was so overwhelming! All of the people and the lights and the nosie lead to a little sensory overload! It was totally different than anything I had ever been exposed to. The jet lag didn't help either. I felt like I was walking around in a dream all day long!

We are all waiting to get on the subway down to the bottom of the island. The subway was an interesting place with equally interesting sights and smells. But I love riding the subway! It's like a giant rollercoaster! After about 30 min on the subway, a bus transfer, and lots of walking we were able to get on the Staten Island Ferry and float past Lady Liberty herself.

The view from Staten Island was spectacular!

When we got back to Manhattan we decided to explore the financial district and Wall Street a little bit before dinner.

The cross-roads of Wall Street and Broadway. I figure that if I were a street corner I would be this one. Wall Street is all business, like my Political Science major, and Broadway is famous for it's amazing theatres and artistic experssion, which is my favorite thing to do in my free time.

This area was amazing! I have so many gorgeous pictures from everything in the area it would take days to show them all! So here are just some of the coolest things.

Then we went to the World Trade Center. Ground Zero. It was a lot different than what I expected. They are in the middle of construction of the memorial right now so it really isn't much more than a construction site. It is pretty crazy to think I was there. There are only a few game changing moments in history: WWI, WWII, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and 9/11. The area is still a thriving financial district. People are running to and from work but there is still a definite somber feeling in the area. 

We then headed a little further up the island to Chinatown and Little Italy. Amazing food especially the cannolis!!

After, I was able to get tickets to a Broadway show called In the Heights. I was a little hestitant because Corbin Bleu of High School Musical fame was in the lead.That was a spectalcualr show about life in Washington Heights. It was basically a show about my family really.  The music was amazing and the actors were perfect! (Yes even Corbin Bleu.) I wish I had gotten pictures of the theatre!

More pictures tomorrow!