My trip to New York 2008
When we landed in Long Beach on Nov.15th all hell had breaking loose. Fires surrounded us, it was snowing (ashes), and the workers on the tarmac had face masks. And my first thought was: Can we go back?
On Nov. 11th 2008 me and two of my closest friends "Hopped Jet Blue" and flew 5 hours to New York. Months of talking, planning, searching, finding deals, buying tickets, and waiting finally came to an end when we landed at JFK. As we walked outside there was no doubt we were in New York. No it wasn't the cold or the skyline. It was because an airport cop and a person in a car were yelling at each other. Ahhh, New York.
As we unpacked our stuff at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (I know! Were moving on up!) we talked about what to do that night. You can probably all guess that food was number one on our list. So we headed to Virgil's Real BBQ on Times squared and grubbed. We then found an Irish pub (O'Lunney's) and made friends with the bartender there, Kevin (or better known as 'sweetie'), who doesn't know it yet but is Christi's future husband. Needless to say we had one drink each and held hands while we skipped back to our hotel room. Or I had a little too much to drink and don't quite remember excatly what happened. One of those two.
The next day we took the subway to Central Park, headed to F*A*O* Schwartz (Big piano!), shopping (the girls made me go to H&M), went to a really good restaurant named Juniors, and headed to In the Heights. One of the main reason's for the entire trip.
I won't bore you with details of the rest of the trip (Ice skating at rockefellar center, the big christmas tree, canal street, followin a little asian lady into the basement of a store to look at purses, lombardi's pizza, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn, ebbet's field, American Museum of Natural History, Times Square, the red steps, Dexter, Avenue Q, rain, the jamaican language, getting lost, me being a big jerk, how much we used the iPhone, eating lunch in Central Park). No no no, I won't bother with those things.
It was an awesome trip that I will never forget. Thank you Nicole and Christi for going and making all the guys in New York jealous that they weren't me. I just have one question girls: When are we headed back?
If you want to see all my pics from the trip, click the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/viccastelo/sets/72157609294545655/
On Nov. 11th 2008 me and two of my closest friends "Hopped Jet Blue" and flew 5 hours to New York. Months of talking, planning, searching, finding deals, buying tickets, and waiting finally came to an end when we landed at JFK. As we walked outside there was no doubt we were in New York. No it wasn't the cold or the skyline. It was because an airport cop and a person in a car were yelling at each other. Ahhh, New York.
As we unpacked our stuff at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (I know! Were moving on up!) we talked about what to do that night. You can probably all guess that food was number one on our list. So we headed to Virgil's Real BBQ on Times squared and grubbed. We then found an Irish pub (O'Lunney's) and made friends with the bartender there, Kevin (or better known as 'sweetie'), who doesn't know it yet but is Christi's future husband. Needless to say we had one drink each and held hands while we skipped back to our hotel room. Or I had a little too much to drink and don't quite remember excatly what happened. One of those two.
The next day we took the subway to Central Park, headed to F*A*O* Schwartz (Big piano!), shopping (the girls made me go to H&M), went to a really good restaurant named Juniors, and headed to In the Heights. One of the main reason's for the entire trip.
I won't bore you with details of the rest of the trip (Ice skating at rockefellar center, the big christmas tree, canal street, followin a little asian lady into the basement of a store to look at purses, lombardi's pizza, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn, ebbet's field, American Museum of Natural History, Times Square, the red steps, Dexter, Avenue Q, rain, the jamaican language, getting lost, me being a big jerk, how much we used the iPhone, eating lunch in Central Park). No no no, I won't bother with those things.
It was an awesome trip that I will never forget. Thank you Nicole and Christi for going and making all the guys in New York jealous that they weren't me. I just have one question girls: When are we headed back?
If you want to see all my pics from the trip, click the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/viccastelo/sets/72157609294545655/
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