Eight days in New York City over Christmas / New Years…. amazing, and almost impossible to sum up in a blog entry.
Highlights – Central Park in the sun; Christmas dinner at the Ritz Carlton; riding in a yellow taxi; the view from Top of the Rock; the Christmas tree by the Rockefella Centre; a Japanese feast in midtown; pizza slices for $2 that were bigger than my head; Jane’s carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park; Â trying on wedding rings in Tiffanys on Fifth Avenue; finding the Strand book store in the pouring rain; drinking hot cider while wandering around the Union Square markets; Staten Island ferry; drinking beer at the ice hockey in Madison Square Gardens.
Lowlights: Ash getting shingles and being unable to walk / being in extreme pain the entire holiday; spending New Years Eve in our hotel room rather than at the fancy jazz / cocktail bar in Flatiron we bought tickets for (due to above reasons); our hotel’s breakfast of stale bagels and cordial EVERY MORNING; the cooooold weather making it hard sometimes to walk to that extra spot of sightseeing; the boxing day sales madness turning women into crazy shopping maniacs.
We were exhausted arriving home from the holiday..! And happy to be back in London, which is always a nice feeling.
