Nate and I were lucky enough to go to NYC and then Boston with our good, good friends Sam and Jared Holland. It was a dream vacation for me and so fun to finally see all these famous East Coast landmarks. We left our cute kiddos home and left the SLC airport at midnight. When we landed in NYC at 6 am eastern time, we were all a bit groggy, but dropped our luggage in the hotel lobby and headed out to explore.
The New York Public Library was beautiful.
We took a trip to the top of the Empire State Building. . . so pretty up there. And so fun to see the whole city from above.
We stopped off for a quick hot dog stand snack. And by we. . . I don't mean me.
So much fun walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Our next stop was the 9/11 Memorial. It was quite a walk as we tried to find it, and we were getting pretty tired from our all-nighter followed by massive touristing, but it was definitely a highlight of the trip. What an amazing, reverent feeling was there. We felt goosebumps as we walked into the square where the beautiful memorial was and where those towers once stood. Looking at the names engraved in the stone and realizing that these people had lives, and loved ones and people who come there to mourn them hit me so hard. None of us wanted to leave. What a beautiful and peaceful tribute this place is.
We finally were able to check into our hotel room after this so we headed back to take a little siesta and clean up a bit. Our hotel room was so pretty and had the most beautiful views of the city. I couldn't help looking out the window and smiling at the fact that I was actually there!
For dinner we headed to the famous Katz Deli in Soho. It was such a fun walk through Soho, even though most of the quaint shops were closed. The Katz Deli is famous for their pastrami. I didn't really know what that was. . . nor did anything else on the menu look like my kind of food, so I just went ahead and ordered it. I'm pretty sure that was my worst decision of the trip.
Thankfully we chased that pastrami down with the most delicious cupcakes at Georgetown Cupcakes. Why are cupcake shops the cutest things ever? The lovely colors, the tiered platters of pretty cupcakes, the pillowy mountains of frosting, the pink bakery boxes. Ahhhh. Such a happy little place.
We headed back to our hotel exhausted, but so happy at all we accomplished on this first day.
1 comment:
Your trip looks awesome! The red eye sounds a little less than awesome though. I love the picture of you and Nate on the Empire State Building, very cute. And the pictures on the Brooklyn bridge are so pretty too. You and Sam look cute, kinda twinner-y. And I laughed about the hot dog...of course. And that pastrami sandwich is a lot of meat but I'm still kinda proud of you for trying it. Can't wait for more posts!
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