Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2015

New York freakin' City !

129 days!

Oh boy.

Last Friday till Tuesday I was in NYC with my hostmom, hostgranny, the kids and Katha came too!
We slept at the relatives' house on Long Island again :D

On Friday, we just drove there and picked up Katha and then the two of us walked a little bit through Manhassett to look at the Christmas lights. Americans are good at decorating, they really are.


Manhassett














On Saturday, we had "Pfannekuchen" for breakfast (the relatives have German ancestors) and then we took the Long Island Railroad to Manhattan!

We walked on the High Line which used to be a railroad, but now you can walk on it!





And you can take a thousand photos of the city. It's such an interesting city, there's something to take a photo of at every corner!

Afterwards, we walked through Greenwich Village, Soho, Little Italy (where we had delicious lunch - Spaghetti Carbonara for the win!) (and ice cream of course) and Chinatown. Then, we went to the Brooklyn Bridge, crossed it, walked a little bit in Brooklyn, took photos and took the ferry back to Midtown.


We had the Nutella Choco one ... Did you expect anything else? :p




Washington Square

Banksy was here !!

I really like this house



In Chinatown 





Germany represent ^^


We really did a lot of walking that day. Katha has an app and it said we walked 25,8km on Saturday. Hallelujah. My feet and my back definitely felt like that.
But here are more photos:




You know you're in the US when
big city lights 

I can't decide if the city is prettier during the day or at night.


On Sunday, my feet hurt all day long. 

We had breakfast at a place called Penelope - try it when you're in NYC. It's really good and worth the 45 minutes of waiting. 
Also, I ordered a breakfast cocktail cause I thought it's like a smoothie. When I tried it, there was definitely alcohol in it. Quick reminder: I'm 18 :D I guess I must look convincingly 21! They didn't even ask for my ID. So I had alcohol for breakfast. What a great start into the day :p

Breakfast :3
We did a lot of walking again.

Madison Square Park

Flat Iron building




Saks Fifth Avenue
THE tree

in Central Park
Katha found out about the movie premiere of "Joy".
So of course we went there. It was ... crazy. Lots of security guards and barriers and famous people we didn't know xD
But we did know Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Natalie Dormer, Julianne Moore and Amy Schumer who were all there !! They look just like in the movies. 
Side note: It was SO cold that evening. I didn't wear a jacket because during the day, it was 19 degrees Celsius. But at night, it got cold and windy. We still stayed till after the premiere so we saw everybody leaving the place again ... What an experience :p

On Monday, I watched with my hostmom, granny and girl the Christmas Spectacular in the Radio City Music Hall. It was truly amazing! The dancers and costumes and everything.
Here's a short trailer for that show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yRG9LpInXE

Inside Radio City Hall




During the show, Katha stood in line to get Stand By tickets for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. As it turned out, they didn't give out Stand By tickets that day :(

So useless in line standing. But you gotta try ...


In the afternoon, we went to Central Park again. It's really nice there. Really.





In the evening, we went to another movie premiere!
I would probably go to such events every day if I lived in NYC ^^


The movie was called "The Hateful Eight". A Quentin Terentino movie ...



... With Channing Tatum in it!


There was some kind of protest next to us. They were actually an anti protest, because there should have been a protest against Terentino. But they didn't show up, so there was only a "protest" in support of Terentino. It was kind of weird.

And that was it again!

On Tuesday, we drove back to Ithaca and Katha to Boston.

NYC is amazing every time I go there. And exhausting. I LOVE it.

This is probably the last blog post of 2015. What a year it was ... So much happened. I'm in the United States of freakin America. God.

I'm looking forward to the next blog post ... Exciting things are going to happen !! aaaaah I'm already so excited. 

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to all of you xo

Christin.