On our last morning in New York we had a few hours to play before we had to head to the airport to fly home.
We stopped at the United Nations right by our hotel.
Hummed a little "Feelin' Groovy" 59th street bridge song as we walked under the Queensborough Bridge
Ate delicious turkey club and chicken salad sandwiches at Bouchon Bakery. Lunch was so good we went back in for almond raspberry croissant and pain chocolate. Again, delicious. I decided then that if I were a bird, I would live outside Bouchon Bakery and survive on croissants and bouchon crumbs all my life. We ate at the outdoor dining area and realized we are getting used to the cramped spaces of NYC when we squeezed into two of the 3 vacant seats right in the middle of an 8 person table that already had two people dining at one end and a group of three dining at the other end. And then another stranger arrived moments later to have his coffee at the final empty seat. A chair is a chair in the city. You don't own the table if there's still an empty seat available.
We took a bus to 5th avenue to shop for our last hour and passed Serendipity and Trump Tower. I bought I ❤️ NY shirts for Corbin and Soren, and HAD to stop in the American Girl store and get tiny AG NY shirts for Reese and Quincy's dolls. Today was a good day to shop for the children. They'll cash in well on my mommy guilt for leaving them for 4 days. I miss them tremendously and and am doing all my blogging from my flight so the memories of my trip will be recorded before I forget everything. Once I'm home I know I will want to focus on my family and won't take the time to blog anything.
We did some shopping at H&M and passed The New York Public Library and a sweet ping pong tournament in Bryant Park on our way back to the hotel to pick up our luggage and catch our airport pickup. We had 15 minutes to spare so we grabbed one last snack at Cafe Olympia and ate in the car on the way to the airport, making sure to squeeze every last drop out of our vacation. Considering how much we crammed into 3ish days, I'd say we did a pretty good job. We saw every part of Manhattan and spent a day in Brooklyn.
New York was dirty. Like really dirty. And unless you're standing outside a bagel shop, pizza place, or a bakery, it smells terrible like a horrible cocktail of urine, cigarettes, garbage, wet dog, b.o., and mystery meat kabobs. I was armed with candy to eat non stop so I couldn't smell anything, which helped enough to keep me from throwing up in the street.
The diversity, crowds, poverty, swift pace, public transportation, panhandlers, garbage in the streets, and general rudeness of the general public is so different than anything like how I am privileged to live my every day life and I am so thankful for the lifestyle I am greatly blessed to have. I say the sand thing every time I visit California and feel the contrast of the life I have and the life there. I love whee I was raised and wouldn't change it. But I think both it and I have changed enough that I prefer to only visit there and live my new life in Ar. Just like a visit to Ca, I truly LOVED my trip to New York for everything I experienced there, and now that it's over I am relieved and grateful to be headed home to the contrast. Looking forward to my place of comfort and the people I live for. And a shower. Holy crap I need like 20 showers to wash the city off my body. I feel like I've been touched by all the things. Time away was good for me. Coming home is SO good for me.
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Man, that hot shower did feel SO good this morning!!
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