Today I'm gonna talk to you about the first and till this day the only time I went to NY. I did this trip with my mom, this is becoming a thing :) Mother daughter traveling! We have so much fun together. We traveled in May and that was a very nice time, we had great weather. We went for 8 days, some people said it would be long, because it's more for a city trip, but I think it was ideal. We had time to see everything on our own time. And we saw it all.
For this trip I haven't kept every activity for each day like my other trips, I don't even know why...We flew with Continental Airlines, that was great, just like last time, nothing to say about that.
Our hotel was the Mave, this was a great hotel for what I've been hearing about NY hotels. The room was nice but small, but I don't mind that cause I had great comfort and we were only in our room at night to sleep. The only minor thing was that the breakfast was just a table with some coffee on it and some croissants and fruit. If you have a big day ahead it's not enough.
But there was a dunkin donuts just around the corner :) so lucky me.
One day we went shopping, of course, and my sister asked to go to a specific shop (don't remember the name). After asking around we found out it was in Queens, in a mall there. So we took the metro and went looking for it. We found it, but not what she wanted from it. The ride back to NY from Queens on the metro was interesting, there was a woman singing and some suspicious people on it. But we made it back safe.
We also went to the American Museum of Natural History. That was so nice, so much to see, to much almost to do in one day. My favorite part were the dinosaurs and the animals. But really everything was amazing. We just saw the museum during a walk in Central Park. It is just an amazing park, so much to see and to do. Of course I've been eating some hot dogs in the park, so good, and I ate a pretzel for the first time. I didn't liked it so much, to salty for me, or maybe I ate the wrong one.There was a day where it was raining, so we decided to do go on a tourbus. My travel agent gave us a free ticket we could use for one day. It was such a nice tour, we did everything I feel like. The part where we went over a bridge was so scary, because I'm scared of heights and we sat upstairs on the bus. And we ate the best pizza in Brooklyn, so we've been told, but it was pretty good.
We also went to Time Square, by day and by night. So beautiful, but so busy.Grand central station was also a stop we did, so nice and big, amazing.
My mom wanted to go on the Empire state building, but cause I'm scared of heights I didn't want to go up. That I regret now, so next time we go, I'll go on it, promise!
While we were there it was mothers day. So in the morning we went for breakfast in a pancake house around the corner. I had the pancake, of course, and my mom had the eggs and toast. We had a wonderful breakfast. After that we went walking in Central Park for the whole day. We ate lunch in the park. It was just wonderful. Then for diner I bought my mom a fancy diner in a restaurant not far from the hotel. We had a wonderful time!
On one of the last days we did the Gossip Girl tour, cause I loved the tv show, and it was the only one my mom knew a bit. It was so nice, even if you don't know it so well, you still see a lot of beautiful things that you maybe wouldn't have seen other wise.
When we flew back home, I bought some Dunkin donuts at the airport to take home. Everyone on the plane wanted some, but they were for the family at home :) So when we arrived back home, everyone had a nice breakfast.
I hope you liked to read about my time in NY, remember the pictures are from a view years ago, so maybe not that good. Hopefully I have all our adventures on here :)
Love,
Sarah
