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    • autumn in new york: part 2

      Posted at 9:09 am by jasminedesirees, on December 17, 2015

      Part 2 of my visit to NYC in October.

      On Saturday morning, we woke up early and moved out of the Empire to my friend’s aunts house on Park Avenue. It was the most adorable apartment I’ve ever seen, I never wanted to leave. It had so many rooms, but it wasn’t all modern and fixed up.

      She had been renting it for decades, before Park Avenue was “Park Avenue” so it’s this quaint little place with long, sloping hallways and two whole rooms filled with books. My friends’ aunt travels all over the world doing volunteer work, so her entire apartment was decorated with things from her travels and pictures of her all over the world. Life goals, seriously.

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      Once we were all moved in and ready to go, we set out for the High-Line. I’d wanted to see that on our last visit but we ran out of time. Because it was a gorgeous October day, it was really busy, but I’m still glad we got to do it.

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      We walked the High-Line down to the Meatpacking District, where we stopped off at the Gansevoort Market to eat all the things. I could have spent hours in there, it was such a neat little space and every food stall looked more delicious than the last.

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      We spent the rest of the day wandering around, we did some shopping, went to Times Square to get show tickets from the TKTS booth and got caught up in a protest. The whole street was shut down by Black Lives Matter protesters, which was pretty crazy to see in person, there were so many people marching.

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      It was all very peaceful from what I saw, but the streets were lined with police, and there was a feeling in the air like something could happen, a heightened awareness. Nobody was on their phones or unaware, everyone was paying attention and talking to each other, which is rare these days. We stayed for a long time, but eventually we got hungry so we went to the Plaza for snacks.

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      There is a food court in the bottom of the hotel that had so many good desserts it was hard to choose. We ended up getting the most amazing hot chocolate of my life from a little stall in the back right corner. It was literally just melted bittersweet chocolate. I could feel myself getting sicker with every sip but it was so delicious I didn’t even care.

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      That night we went to The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, and it was amazing. My older sister and I used to listen to the soundtrack on road trips and sing our little hearts out, so it was really amazing to see it performed live. I especially loved the scene where he takes her down to his lair under the opera house, the floor comes apart and flickering lanterns and smoke comes up everywhere.

      At the end of the show, the Phantom (James Barber) came out to thank the audience and even his speaking voice was breathtaking.

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      On Sunday morning we had planned to go to Brooklyn, but we stopped off at Rockefeller Center and ended up getting sucked into the shopping in the area (I blame you, TopShop) then going up to the Top of the Rock. We almost went to the Empire State Building, but it was so expensive (like $80/person) and I’d been to Top of the Rock before and loved the view up there so we did that instead.

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      We made a quick stop off at Junior’s for the best cheesecake in the world, before heading for the airport. It was so nice to spend time with my friend and explore new parts of the city. Just writing this post has made me so excited for my next trip, which should be in January.

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      Posted in New York, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged autumn, Central Park, Manhattan, New York, travel
    • autumn in new york: part 1

      Posted at 8:37 am by jasminedesirees, on December 1, 2015

      I still have a couple more posts from Seattle to share (I may have mentioned how much I LOVED that city) but I’ve been traveling a lot lately, so I wanted to mix it up a bit.

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      The week before Halloween I was lucky enough to get to fly to New York for a week to work out of the NY office for my job. A lot of the people I work with every day are there, so it was really nice to actually meet everyone in person after talking to them every day on the phone for months.

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      I stayed at the Empire Hotel right near Central Park West, so every single morning (no matter how late I’d been out the night before) I forced myself to get up and go for a run. I was training for the triathlon at the time, but also it was just so beautiful there I felt like I could run for hours and never get tired.

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      I was there the week before the New York Marathon, so every morning while I was running, there were groups of workers putting up bleachers and getting ready for the race, it kind of made me want to stay and run it. I probably would have died, but I did say after our last marathon a few years ago, the only way I would ever run another one would be if we did NY.

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      I was so excited to go to NY in the fall, I’ve only been there once before, in March. The leaves were starting to change, but I was excited for some cold weather, and it was actually really nice out. At this point I should just get rid of all my winter clothes, it’s not in the cards for me, apparently.

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      I worked in the office Tuesday-Friday, but didn’t book my flight home until Sunday night, so I had a couple of days to creep around the city and explore, and one of my very best friends came out to spend the weekend with me. She lives in Indianapolis now, and I hadn’t seen her since her wedding, over a year and a half ago, so it was an amazing weekend for lots of reasons.

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      I’ll be traveling to NY a lot more starting in January, so I’m excited to spend more time in the city and explore a lot more. If you have any suggestions for cool places to visit or restaurants to check out, please let me know!

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      Posted in New York, travel, USA | 2 Comments | Tagged autumn, Central Park, Manhattan, New York, travel
    • manhattan

      Posted at 3:45 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 11, 2014

      Our time in New York is going so fast, only two more days and we’re off to Toronto. It’s been such a busy, fun week though.

      I worked from our Manhattan office today, it was really nice to finally meet a bunch of people in person that I’ve been talking to every day for months.

      Also, I found a place that makes really good lemon drops so I’m pretty much all set.

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      Posted in exploring, life, New York, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged lemon drop, Manhattan, New York, travel
    • ny

      Posted at 4:23 pm by jasminedesirees, on March 6, 2014

      I actually can’t believe it even as I’m typing this, but we are leaving for New York tomorrow. Also I haven’t even started packing, so right on schedule then.

      Some of the things I want to see are:

      Statue of Liberty : This one is pretty obvious, I think it’ll be pretty neat to see in person after seeing so many images of it all my life. Or maybe it’ll be super underwhelming and actually be like 10 feet tall, like the Mona Lisa is apparently very tiny and unimpressive.

      Metropolitan Museum of Art: I’m really excited to visit The Met, and my mom is a painter, so it’ll be really fun to go see it with her.

      9/11 Memorial: I remember exactly what I was doing when I found out about the attack on the World Trade Center. I was sitting on the bathroom vanity doing my makeup, and I heard my dad yelling from upstairs.

      Central Park: I’ve always wanted to visit Central Park, especially Belvedere Castle. Even though it’s just going to be one big snowball, it’ll still be awesome to see. Actually I’m pretty excited about the snow, it’s been too long.

      The Plaza hotel: I’ve wanted to visit the Plaza for so long that I can’t even remember when it started. I suspect that it was when I was about 9 years old, when I started reading The Babysitter’s Club books my Ann M. Martin. Stacey was my favourite character, and her favourite book was Eloise, a story about a young girl that lived in the Plaza hotel. I’ve never even read Eloise, I guess I just assumed that if Stacey liked it, it was probably amazing. It probably is.

      And tons of other things. I know it’s all super touristy stuff, I’m also just excited to creep around and do some exploring, but I want to have a list just in case we do have some free time, we won’t waste it trying to think of what we want to do.

      We’re going to be staying with a friend in Brooklyn for most of our visit, and I’ll be working out of our Manhattan office, or as is more likely, getting lost on the subway and crying on a street corner.

      I’d love to hear any suggestions that anybody has for fun places to visit, or great restaurants!

      Posted in exploring, life, New York, travel, USA | 0 Comments | Tagged Brooklyn, Central Park, Chicago, explore, Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, statue of liberty, Times Square, travel
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