Our first couple days in New York behind us, Wednesday Julia wanted to go shopping, so after sleeping in a bit to recover from the previous night’s barhopping, we headed out to shop first at the Century 21 store (where Julia bought a new purse), then to SoHo. Like our previous shopping experiences, we saw a great deal of things we couldn’t afford, but there were some nice, more affordable clothes that Julia picked up at places like Banana Republic and Esprit. After our shopping spree we went to a sushi place in Midtown for some all-you-can-eat sushi, which wasn’t bad. Post-dinner, we went to a couple bars in Midtown, then back to the hotel for the night.
Thursday was the day for stereotypical New York touristy things. First, we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn and back, stopping at Brooklyn Bridge Park for a bit:
We then hopped on the Staten Island Ferry for a ride to the island and back. It was a pretty windy and cold day, so standing on the deck to see the views wasn’t all that enjoyable, but I did it anyway:
Chelsea was a neighborhood we hadn’t spent too much time in up to that point, so we walked around there for a bit, stopping (of course) at Chelsea Hotel, as well as a burger place for lunch. We moved north to Columbus Circle and got some chocolate at the Godiva store before heading back to the hotel to freshen up a bit. For dinner, we went to a very lovely seafood place in the Village, then to the Brass Monkey bar in the meatpacking district. We didn’t stay too late, however, as we had to be up early on Friday.
Early Friday morning (5 AM early, to be exact), we got up so we could check out and be to Penn Station for our 7:10 train to lovely Wilmington, Delaware. It was a lot easier than I expected to grab a cab in Chinatown at 6 AM, and before long we were heading out of New York through the industrial landscape that is New Jersey. Just a couple hours later we were in Delaware, where Mo picked us up on his way to DC. Traffic wasn’t too terrible midday on Friday, and by around 1 P.M. we were in DC ready for the last part of our trip…which you can read about tomorrow.