well kiddies, i have returned. i apologize to all my loyal readers for not checking in sooner, but for those of you who did not know, yours truly was on a MUCH needed vacation!!!
where to, you ask? well me and melissa hit the big apple, and hit it hard! yes, new york, new york was our destination of choice...and let me just say it was a good one!!
lincoln center, empire state building, chrysler building, central park, madison square garden, madison avenue, china town, little italy, union square, 5th avenue, park avenue, the plaza hotel, the sex and the city tour, times square, the west village, soho, noho, (and yes it is a real place) tribeca...WE SAW IT ALL, LADIES AND GERMS!!!
it was the trip of a lifetime! seriously, new york is like nothing you've ever seen!!! there is such energy, life, pizazz, kick, flair, style, chaos, insanity and sheer craziness emaninating from that city it's not even funny!! there's so much to do on any given day, it's almost hard to decide what TO do, and WHEN to do it!! which is what stinted us sometimes; we got in one mindset, and then we just had to figure out what the best order was to accomplish everything!!
so in the end, we did miss a few things; we didn't get to go on the staten island ferry, which sepposedly gives you a fantastic view of the entire city and of course of lady liberty!! but i already saw her once, so it's all good! and we never did hit any museums, which kinda sucked cause the guggenheim would have been amazing to visit; they have the original 'starry night' from davinci...which i've always been a fan of. we did make it to the doors of 'the met', but they had closed about an hour prior to us arriving...but oh,well...can't win 'em all!!
i'm sure new yorkers can spot tourists a mile away: all they have to do is look for the people with their heads up in the air!! so needless to say, i didn't try to hide it for the first few days we were there!! but you can't help but look-up, your eyes are immediately forced upwards to take in all the amazing feats that lay in front of you and all around you!! that city is so populated that it has no where else to expand, but up!! so buildings just keep getting built higher and higher! and believe you me, we had a birds eye view of a few of them; namely the empire state building, where all three of us experienced a bit of ol' vertigo, followed by three mild panic attacks, and a much needed cigarette atop the 85th floor!! yes kiddies, 85 floors up, high above the rest and atop the clouds is where we stood!! unfortunately we decided to save this trip till the evening, so our pictures didn't turn out very well, but you can imagine the view.
i must say that that city sucks you in and immediately forces you into a certain frame of mind. it's obviously not for everybody, but you can't say that there's not at least SOMETHING in it for everyone!
the first thing everyone has been asking me about my trip, is if i got the chance to catch any broadway shows while we were there, and unfortunately we didn't. but when there's that much to do in any given day, we didn't feel like we missed out on much! besides the tickets were like a hundred bucks for standing room only, so we didn't want to take a chance on having some tall dude standing right in front of us!!
for the clubbers out there, dig this: we got on the list for this elite club called "duvet". and for all you sex and the city fans out there, just try to remember a certain bar the girls visited called "bed", and you'll get the idea. actually, it IS the club from the show, just by a different name. so you walk in and everything's completely white, and beyond posh looking. but the main attraction is that there are these beautiful beds EVERYWHERE!! and i'm not talking like sketchy dirty stained beds either, they were like 100% cotton, beautiful white beds. so you step in and basically kick off your shoes and dance all over these beds! it's fuckin' crazy. they have like satin pillows, and these beautiful trays for you to rest your drinks in so they don't spill all over the place. then you go downstairs to use the bathrooms, and first of all they're all unisex in new york...gender is becoming more and more obsolete, i tell ya! so the boys are ushered over to one side to pee in these trophe-like things, with a waterfall that basically washes it all away. but the scary thing is that when you turn around the wall that separates you from the rest of the bathroom (which you thought was just a mirror) turns out to be a two-sided mirror!! so you can see out, but the rest of the bathroom can't see in!! talk about major stage-fright!! and the toilets are the same way!! you can see out, but they can't see in! so you think that everyone can see you pee!! so you see all these drunk people coming right up to the door (thinking it's just a mirror) and like checking their teeth, and fixing their hair and shit!! fuck it's funny!!
they even give away free slippers at this place with 'duvet' printed on them, so needless to say kate snagged melissa and i a pair to comemorate our trip!!
fuck i could go on and on forever about new york, but honestly words don't do it a lick of justice! you really have to experience it for yourself!
so in closing, let me just say, that it's definitely not for everyone; what with the noise, the constant commotion, the garbage and the public urination...but if you look at it from another view; that being that it's the land of the free, that there's so much diversity and culture there, and that the energy is all-consuming and reason enough to visit...then you're guaranteed to have a fantastic time! and well if you have your own private tour guide (like we did with our beloved kate) well then you've got it made!
new york...there's truly no place like it!
i heart n.y.
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