Well i'm back at home and New York was seriously the most amazing vacation ever!! This post has a ton of pictures but there is so much I want to remember! It was definitely no relaxing vacation my feet killed all day long but it was so worth it and so much fun. I am really wanting to go live there for a few months now maybe a year. I can't believe my mom let me go with 2 other 18 year old girls with no parents so thanks mom you da best :)!
This is Tiff, Meag, and Teegan. We stayed with my cousins cousin on her other side of the family and it was so fun! They had this adorably little girl we got to stay in the first two nights and babysit her while her parents went out. She is so adorable. They left to come to Arizona on Saturday so we were there in our own apartment basically Saturday-Tuesday. We felt like we lived there! We stayed two blocks from central park on the upper west side of Manhatten and it was the perfect neighborhood. We could go home and get somewhat away from the craziness...not that we wanted too :)
This is Shake Shack aka the best food you will ever eat in your life. I am a huge burger and french fries kinda girl and this was what this place was. They had the best burgers and cheesy fries. My mouth is watering right now thinking about it. The shakes were also so good! We ate here 3 times and I loved it every time. There is another one in Madison Square Garden that was very cute but it was an outside one and it was freezing so I kinda liked this one better :)
Oh the Subways! We had some adventures on here. I am easily amused so I loved riding on these things. Our favorite game was to look for the subway rats everytime we were down there. Those things are seriously HUGE! Ok so I think the funniest thing that happened the whole trip was one night we were totally lost like always and we were walking up from the subway and we get on the street this guy who was a typical new york creep came up to me with a mouth full of sprite and just spit all over my face and hair and walked away. We were in shock and didn't know what just happened but it was sooo hillarious. Might have been a had to be there moment. I probably should have been mad or freaked out but I just thought it was funny. Good thing we were on our way home! We also met lots of interesting people down there. There was always someone singing or playing some type of instrument. We met these real nice guys who invited us to a concert they were playing but we were leaving the day before. And there was this lady the last night who looked homeless but had the most amazing voice! We loved her and told her she should try out for X-Factor I think that made her life.
This was another crazy adventure!! Well one day we were getting on a subway thinking we were going to Greenich village next thing we know were going over the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island! We weren't plannign on going there and this took 3 hours and it gets dark there at like 5 so we kinda wasted a day but we loved it anyways. We seriously got lost so much. We would try to follow the maps on our iphones but we didn't know our N,W,S, and E so we would follow the moving dot and then we would see we were going the wrong way so we'd walk another way til we got the dot in the right place. This is how we got around ha.
Lady Liberty! This was a fun day. We went out to the Statue of Liberty and to Ellis Island. I love history so it was fun. It started snowing for like 2 seconds when we were on the Ferry.
Times square was one of my favorite parts! I loved just walking around with the million people and all the craziness. We went in the day and at night and It was so much more fun at night even though it was pretty crowded.
On Sunday we got to go to the Singles Ward in the Manhatten Temple. This was a good experience.. it was cool that we were going to church in a temple. It was the christmas program so it was all about Christs birth. They had some very amazing musical numbers. There was this one guy who played the violin and i am 80% sure he went to Juliard because he was one of the msot amazing players I had ever heard. Plus it is right down the street. I loved how you could be outside in all the craziness and go inside the temple and it was so peaceful. It really is a refuge from the wickedness of the world.
The Met Steps! This was another favorite. Me and Tiff love the show Gossip Girl and they come in here in almost every episode so we loved it.
Who goes to New York and doesn't see the big Christmas Tree at Christmas Time! We went in the day and at night for this too. You could not even walk at night because of how much people were here but it was so beautiful.
Ahhh Central Park! I could live here. A couple days we'd just walk through the park and that was my number 1 favorite part. It is so pretty and HUGE I couldn't believe how big it was!
Ice Skating!! so fun!
Another highlight was this... This is John Mayers apartment building. We all love him so we looked up his address and went to it we went inside the Duane Reads that is at the bottom and asked one of the ladys working if he really lived here and she confirmed it for us. So we bought some snacks and sat outside for like 45 minutes like the little creepers we are. The doorman would keep looking across the street at us and then go away so we couldn't see him. Then this black escalade came and parked on the curb and Meagan saw John Mayer peek out and then went behind so we couldn't see him and then he came out and got in the Escalade! Meagan and Tiffany ran down the street when it drove away... ya there freaks! Haha no but it was SO fun!!
Brooklyn Bridge!! It's hard to capture how pretty it really was with a crappy camera. All the city lights and tall buildings were so pretty. It is unreal. Walking down the bridge was so fun like everything else.
Love NYC
This is supposed to be last but I snuck a pic taking off leaving the city cause it was really pretty even though this picture is blurry...
Bryant Park and the Empire State Building. Going to the top of the Empire State Building was one thing we didn't do that most people do but I wasn't to bummed about that. Im just gonna have to go back now :)
Levain Bakery.. the best cookies in the world. I brought some home and I think i'm going to go eat them right now. If you're ever in New York and you love cookies go here.... My motto for the trip was less walking more eating cause the food is so good. Except one night we ordered some Chinese Takeout like the movies and we tried to talk it up even though we all thought it was gross. One more main thing about this trip that I forgot to put a picture of was the shopping!! Every store you went into has more than one story. The Forever 21 and H and M's were all at least 4 stories so we did some major shopping. I got lots of good presents and we went to China Town too and got some cute watches and purses. I felt like I was at the LA outlets but less Ghetto. Well that's all the main parts but I'm ready to go back again now that I've slept in my own bed for a couple of nights so anyone want to go back with me? :)
NOW its time for Christmas yay!!
Dallin hit his 6 month mark and life is good! He is seriously the best missionary and loves it so so much and is so happy! The past 6 months have flown by but gone slowly at the same time. I finally feel like i'm getting closer to seeing him again. I love receiving his emails and letters and learning about the people he is teaching and watching him grow. For his family "emails" he sends voice messages so I get to hear him actually speak about his week and it is just awesome! I feel so spoiled that I get those voicemails,emails every week, and letters too. He is in Mukah, Malaysia right now and is opening up that little town with his companion. When he first got there they had 20 people at church and now they have 80 including their investigators! How awesome is that? They even have to build a new building because of how much the church has grown there. It is amazing and I don't know how he has the time to teach how many people he is but he is doing awesome and I am so so proud of him. He has helped me strengthen my testimony through the experiences he has shared with me and I am so glad he is where is right now! HAPPY 6 MONTHS!!!
