New York City

As the weekend of columbus day came I was preparing myself for the big journey ahead, NYC.  One of my aunts lives right in Manhattan so we go and visit her a couple times a year. She has a nice little apartment and is always welcome to us visiting. This time it was just my mom and I going. Since my sister had cheerleading practices all weekend. I was lucky enough to have last block off on the friday we left because we hit the road at a decent hour since there is always traffic. We arrived there about 6:00 and met my aunt and one of her friends for dinner. It was long day from school and the car ride so after we just crashed at the apartment for that night. We stayed until tuesday morning, so it was a good amount of time.

After sleeping in saturday morning we went out for breakfast to this cute little cafe a couple blocks down. It's one of my favorite places to go every time I come, its called The Grey Dog. We ate our food then headed to some little shops, all within walking distance. By the way whenever we go to the city we do a ton of walking just cause thats the main way of transportation and it's free. I love just walking down the blocks and looking at all the different types of people and shops there are, it's just so intriguing to me. For the rest of the day we kept walking around and went out for lunch and dinner.



One day that we were there my aunt, mom, and I took a ferry over to Brooklyn to go to one of the big flea markets. Being on the ferry crossing the river gave the city such a beautiful aspect. You could see all the tall buildings and sculpters. The flea market was very neat with lots of cute little antiques, but we didn't buy anything. We did find this amazing frozen yogurt place called 16 Handels. It was the best I have ever had, and had really creative toppings. The last days we did the usual stuff, walking around time square, went to central park, Rockafeller center, and then I did an job shadow at woman's health magazine. Unfortunately we had to eventually leave on tuesday and we got up real early and drove to Connecticut to tour Sacred Heart University. It was such an amazing college and it will be on my top choices.

The long nice vacation was coming to the end and we headed back to NH. The traffic was horrendous and we didn't end up getting home until 9:00 at night! Plus this was a school night so I had to wake up really early in the morning. I managed to do it though. I will be going back to the city soon and hope to make some more memories and go on more adventures.