New York, New York

NYC. You make me feel like I can be anything that I want to be. My heart races when I think about the energy in NYC. I think I have fallen in love again. In fact, through my own personal experiences, I think that you can fall in love many times in many different ways. And I have a major serious crush on NYC. Pretty sure it's love. Let's see where do I begin...

I got a rush when I walked out of Laguardia and saw the long line of yellow taxis just waiting to take me to Manhattan. As we rode in, I could hardly contain myself. We dropped our bags at our West 57th street hotel and began exploring. First thing first, we got hot dogs off the street. De-Lish. We walked for hours just taking it all in. The sights, sounds and smells were unlike any other place I have ever been (sometimes the smells weren't so pleasant, but what do you expect... its August, its hot and there's trash). I quickly realized I wanted to totally tourist it up so we bought 48 hr passes on the the Gray line hop on hop off double decker buses. What a great choice that was! So nice to have someone tell you all sorts of great facts about the city that I would have never ever learned from riding in taxis everywhere.

Our first evening we ditched our Smith and Wollensky reservations and decided to wing it. Risky decision but it totally paid off. We had happy hour at Sushi Samba and then walked up 5th Ave until we happened upon Les Halles (Anthony Bourdains claim to fame). Inside this fabulous restaurant was Caroline Wozniacki (the #1 seed in the US open) just casually seated a few tables from us. We ordered a bottle of Les Halles white wine and had escargots complimented with  freshly baked bread and both were out of this world. We felt as if we did like what the french do every day. Good feeling... let me tell you. We just walked and talked all the way back to our hotel. Walking through the city is just unbelievable. I want to walk everywhere.

The next day we decided to rent bikes at central park and roam around for a few hours... beautiful.. it was such a fun experience. Then it was food time. Carnegie Deli was fantastic. Their pastrami on rye was like 10 lbs and it was out of this world!!!! There is just something about a new york deli that so satisfies every inch of me. We went traveling/shopping all- throughout the downtown side of manhattan. I just felt like I could move there.

The next days were filled with a ton more walking and sight-seeing. I was actually enjoying being a true tourist in the greatest city in the world. It was such a wonderful experience and cannot wait to go back!!!