New York Day One

     My mom and I took a mini two day vacation this week to New York City. A bright and early Amtrak got us into the city early Tuesday morning giving us all day to explore. We basically just walked around everywhere. We went through Times Square, which was surprisingly empty, but then again it was 10 in the morning. We then headed over to Rockefeller Plaza. We were able to see a little bit of Kathy Lee and Hoda taping inside the studio through the windows. As we were walking away I spotted cute little Natalie Morales walking down the street. So mom got a picture with her, she is really so sweet, she stood around for a bit and asked where we were from and just chatted a bit.

     After walking around a while we decided to go back to the hotel to rest a little. Once we were a little more rejuvenated we headed back out. We found a Pottbellys pretty close to our hotel so we went there for lunch. It of course was delicious! Our hotel was in the garment district which was fun because there were a ton of fabric stores and fun boutiques. Any fans of the show Project Runway knows the go-to fabric store on the show is Mood, which is located right in the garment district! 

     We went up to the story and it was so overwhelming. It is two stories of wall to wall fabrics. You could literally spend a whole day there and wouldn't even see everything. I wanted to find some fun fabric to make pillows for the couches in my apartment and mom was looking for fabrics to make curtains for different rooms in the house. After a good hour in a half and numerous swatches later I found two great fabrics that I loved! It  will be fun to make those to spruce up the apartment. Hopefully I can make them within the next week and I will post some pictures then. We went to a bunch of other fabric stores to just see what we could find.

     We went back to the hotel to put our bags down so we didn't have to lug them around the city but we did not really know what to do next. We figured we couldn't just sit around in the hotel so we headed back to Times Square to see if anything fun was going on.  We got handed a ticket from one of the thousand people handing out advertisements for Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. I was ecstatic! I loved the wax museum in San Francisco so I figured this one would be good too. So yes, we decided to do one of the most touristy thing ever. But I have no shame and it was so worth it! Me and my mom had so much fun finding our favorite people and posing with them.

     Day one was a success. We were actually really proud of ourselves for being able to get around the city for the first time with no help. Once back at the hotel we were just ready to lay down. Our feet were killing us and we had a whole day of walking again ahead of us.