A New York Christmas

For Christmas, the fam travelled up to NYC to enjoy a northern Christmas. We had never been, nor did we know anyone that lives up there, yet decided to travel this year for something different. GREAT decision. 

Things to know about our trip to New York City:

-It was very cold

-Our favorite breakfast place is now starbucks

-LADY LIBERTY is BEAUTIFUL (especially with a sunset behind her): God Bless America

-BUT people dressed up like lady liberty are a SCAM and will take your money if you get a picture with them (fell for it on our first day there..)

-Ellis Island is kindof boring. Interesting, but don't stay there longer than 2 hours...

-Times Square is awesome

-the word I chose to use to describe our trip=Overwhelming. Everything about New York is overwhelming or too much; the buildings, the people, etc.

-WICKED IS AWESOME

-Carlos bakery is real and looks just like the TV show portrays it

-DONT go up on top of the empire state building when its snowing. Its even colder and windier up there AND you can't see anything but cloud/snow!! 

-central park is so legit

-central park zoo is even more legit

-we hated china town. I don't understand it. everyone just gets in your bubble/face: "Gucci? Luis Vuitton? Prada?" NO LADY i just wanna walk down the street

-little italy is yummy though AND ferraras is the best bakery i've ever step foot in

-SASSY became the family's new favorite word. seriously. we use it to describe everyone.

-New York had the 5th biggest blizzard in their history the day after christmas (no white christmas for us!)

-because of the loads of snow, we couldn't fly out and ended up having to rent a car and drive home through the night so I could make a plane the next day!

So there's NYC in a nutshell. It was a great trip and super cool to see all decorated and such for christmastime. This Christmas was much different than most, the first that we've travelled and broke traditions. So it didn't really feel like Christmastime,t we had a blast and made the best of memories up there in the City. Cant wait to go back, I'd love to see it in the summertime!! (Roadtrip anyone?)