NYC: I came, I saw, I ATE, I conquered

Often the best part of traveling for me is the food. This is no surprise, I’ve been blogging about food and restaurants since I started blogging. When Ashley asked what kind of stuff I wanted to do/see while I was in NYC last weekend, my immediate response was “eat and watch people, not necessarily in that order.”

And we managed BOTH.

I spent about 36 hours in the Big Apple last weekend and managed to accomplish the following:

I saw:
- fanny packs on tourists (WHAT?)
- GREAT neighborhoods including Chelsea, Brooklyn, the Financial District, Murray Hill, and a lot of Midtown
- Ground Zero (which kind of astounded me, how giant that space is)
- The Statue of Liberty (from both the Brooklyn Bridge and from Battery Park City)
- Central Park (well, the southwest corner of it anyway)

Me, in Central Park! (photo: Rachel Gallagher Photography)

I ate:
- a bagel in Brooklyn
- popcorn shrimp at the Heartland Brewery at the South Street Seaport
- CHEESE PLATE (nom)
- TIRAMISU (Bar Baresco)
- chocolate chip pancakes in bed

Room service! (photo: iPhone)

I conquered:
- the Brooklyn Bridge
- crazy crowds in Times Square
- the subways (ok, I really didn’t; Ashley helped me navigate all of them, but I still took them!)
- meeting new people!
- or rather, did NOT conquer: taking pictures. My camera battery died on Friday night shortly after arriving and I didn’t bring the charger. Thank goodness Ashley and Rachel have pictures, and I’ll post some good ones later.

The one thing we didn’t get to that I wanted to try was New York style pizza, but I guess I’ll just have to do that next time, right?