dirty thirty in new york
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| a few days after i turned thirty, my mom and i flew to new york to partaaay. |
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| we had quite a few days in new york and nothing in particular planned so we slept in every morning. it was amazing. soooo the first afternoon there, we went over to chelsea market. i love this place. very interesting food, shops and people. |
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| a delicious lobster roll in the market. |
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| we enjoyed our lobster roll but then remembered that there is another place that has better ones. oh well! |
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| i cannot count how many times we tried to take a selfie on the bergdorf goodman escalators. good times. |
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| our hotel was close to (everything) grand central station. i had never been in there before. it is so beautiful. |
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| that night we ate at grimaldis. best pizza ever. |
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| right outside grand central station again. and the chrysler building behind us. not the most flattering angle for a picture. the guy just kept getting lower and lower and lower..... |
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| on valentines day eve we enjoyed a late night frrrrozen hot chocolate at serendipity. we had never been there before but had always wanted to try their famous dessert. tasty! |
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| the following morning we went to city bakery for breakfast. i couldnt resist the valentines day linzer cookie! |
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| after breakfast we shopped around the flat iron district (fishs eddy and abc carpet and home are my favorite) and then went over to soho. we were so excited to see some gorgeous blue skies. |
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| we couldnt believe our luck that we got a table at balthazar on valentines day AND that the guy (who, he and his girlfriend thought they were mighty fine) sitting across from us had major major bum crack hanging out the entire time. ha! |
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| after dinner we ran back to our hotel to get ready for the concert and this stunning bouquet was waiting for me in our room. craig surprised me from 3000 miles away. :) |
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| on our way to madison square garden we noticed that the empire state building was lighting up pink and red for valentines day. it was so pretty. |
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| i wasnt really feeling up to asking people for pictures on this trip (it was cold and i didnt think people wanted to stop and take pictures for tourists) so there were a lot of solo shots. whatever. |
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| finally! kings of leon time. craig got us tickets to their concert and it was seriously one of the best nights ever. |
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| before the show. |
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| during. loved every. single. minute. of it. |
a little bit of snow!
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| see that white handkerchief hanging out of caleb's back pocket? at the end of the show we leaned over and tossed it to me. i almost died right then and there. |
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| the next morning was a snowy one. we walked up madison avenue, had lunch at barneys and strolled through central park. |
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| a father and son were having a snowball fight and had just finished making this perfect snowman. children were sledding on the hills. it was a scene out of a movie. |
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| i was in central park snow globe heaven. |
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| we found shelter in the metropolitan museum of art. i had never been there before. it was fantastic. i especially loved the medieval armory wing. |
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| my beautiful mom and an egyptian sphinx. |
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| later that night we enjoyed dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, blue smoke. their warm bbq chips with bleu cheese dip is to die for. |
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| my favorite partner in crime. |
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| we saw a late movie in times square that night. long story short: rat, power outage, minor panic attack. |
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| our last day in new york we had lunch at shake shack and visited the lego exhibit at the discovery channel museum. the things that man created with legos was fascinating. (this winged victory statue was life size!) |
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| it was a trip i will never forget. i am so lucky to have my mom to share these incredible memories with. |
