Time flies in NYC

The rest of the days in New York included a lot of shopping, some dining out, a sex and the city tour amongst many other things. Rather than a day by day play by of the time in NYC I will try and recall the highlights and will actually include some photos from here on it.

Shopping: you could spend weeks shopping in NYC – and hopefully I get back there soon to shop some more. Tiffany and co, Swarovski, Macys, Forever 21, Century 21 the list could go on forever, as the weight in my suitcase and the boxes sent home would prove. 

Buddakan was a place I had never heard of before, but Kasey asked if I would go for dinner with her if we could get reservations. This was the restaurant featured in Sex in the City wedding rehearsal dinner (sorry if I am wrong). It was really nice to dress up, have a sit down not on the run meal and cocktail. Also to explore a different area of the city. The meal was nice, we tried a few starters before the main, I don’t have photos of food as it was rather dark inside to set the mood. If you’re a fan of the show, I do recommend eating here if you get a reservation in advance. 

Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge was something that was high on my to do list, I love pictures of the bridge, it’s the title of a song I love, and walking across it was just as exciting. A little disappointed that half the bridge was under construction, but the views and the feeling when crossing the bridge were amazing. Looking back on the city and being surrounded by great people may have just been another reason I fell a little more in love with that city. 

It was snowing and freezing cold on the day I arranged to go to top of the rock. Cam and I met up after dinner (Lisa birthday dinner at the hard rock café in times square). We walked to TOTR not sure exactly where we were going, and trying to be as quick as possible so we didn’t freeze. We initially walked into the wrong entrance, but walked straight into Jimmy Fallon leaving the building, he was surrounded by people, but we waited and said hi, Cam had his picture taken with him quickly before we let him escape. 

Eventually we found the correct entrance, at first we weren’t overly impressed but once we got to the outside level it was amazing the views seeing the snow falling over the city, the lights and just the feeling of being on top of the world. I can’t wait to re visit this view when its not snowing on a clear night. I loved this view as well as you could see the Empire State Building.

Serendipity, if you have seen the movie you know where some of my favourite New York to do things came from. The ice skating rink, the little cosy restaurant, shopping at Bloomingdales. I refused to be in New York whilst it was freezing cold and at times snowing without visiting this place. Lisa came with me after the sex and the city tour, we both ordered the famous frozen hot chocolate and a slice of cake/pie. The frozen hot chocolate is like nothing I can describe, it was so good though huge!! I would recommend unless you are extremely hungry/thirsty that you share.

After our trip to Serendipity Lisa and I wandered over to central park and decided to take a horse and carriage ride around central park. It was our last day in NYC and there was no better way to end it with that trip around central park. Our driver was very knowledgeable and pointed out lots of the interesting places.  Central park is another place I can’t wait to get back to to see in warmer weather and lie around and soak up the atmosphere, I do however feel so lucky to have gotten to see it with a sprinkle of snow and with the ice skating rink ect.