We left for New York eeeearly on Tuesday July 16, 2013. We were SOOO very excited, despite it being 3:45 am when we woke up that morning!! We had a bit of a delay leaving Edmonton, but after that it was smooth sailing! I LOVE direct flights!!
Damian and I all ready to go on the plane!!
We arrived in New York in the early afternoon and holy moly did the humidity hit us or what!! It was CRAZY HOT! We had to take a cab to our hotel which was about a 40 minute drive. And unfortunately we don't have any pictures of the ride due to me trying not to faint or be sick on the VERY turbulent cab ride! Ha! Darn motion sickness...and CRAZY drivers in NYC!!
We stayed at the Casablanca Hotel in New York. It is beautiful boutique hotel just off of Times Square. It was surprisingly quiet, considering where it was located, and the staff there are AMAZING!!
This was our room! It was quite small, but very homey!
After getting all settled we got changed and headed out to the streets of NYC!
We were hardly excited...can you tell!?! Ha!
This was the view from around the corner from our hotel! It was pretty unreal to see all of this in real life after seeing it in movies and TV for so long!
We stopped for a lunch break and of course it HAD to be PIZZA!! My request of course! I was determined to eat Pizza as many times as I could on the trip ha ha! It was soooo good!! Be prepared for MANY more pizza pictures from the trip, to come!! Ha!
YUMMMMM!!
After our pizza break we did some more wandering around the Times Square/Mid Town area. I couldn't get over the amount of people there was, everywhere we went! It was nuts!!
We walked to an area called Bryant Park. It is this beautiful park right in the middle of Mid Town! It had TONS of park benches and tables and chairs, a games area, a few food kiosks, and this adorable kids area!
They even had an outdoor library!! It was SO cute!! There were a few kids sitting and reading the books and such, but I figured it would be a lil creepy if I took their pictures...ha!!
So I took a picture of the books instead!
There was this AMAZING ice cream station in Bryant park as well! You got to design your own ice cream bar with ANY toppings! By this time it was about 45'C outside, so anything to cool down was a must!!
This was my Ice Cream. I had it dipped in milk chocolate, and then had toasted coconut, peanut butter crumble, and Carmel bits as my toppings! It was DELICIOUS!! And probably 2000 calories!!
Damian enjoyed his ice cream as well!!
After hanging out at Bryant Park for a bit, we headed back to the hotel for a bit of a rest! Our early morning was starting to catch up with us!!
We decided to try one of the restaurants next to our hotel for dinner on our first night!
TONY'S!!
This was some of the best Italian food I have ever had!! It was served 'family style' so they gave you a HUGE amount of food to share. Sooooo good!!!!
Damian enjoying a drink with our first dinner of our trip!!
Our Hotel!
To end our first night in NYC we found a really neat lounge called `Lanterns Keep`in one of the other hotels just off of Times Square. It was super small, but had some really cool drinks and amazing bartenders!
Cheers to our first night in New York!! It was an amazing first day!!
Stay tuned for DAY 2 tomorrow!
It was our anniversary AND we had a
pretty cool run in with some big stars!!
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