My welcome to the Cornell Med School dorms (after signing in at security):
I admit that I was really intimidated by the thought of visiting New York. I'm just a small fish from a small pond in the slow-moving, relaxed, and often passive Pacific Northwest, and the thought of the fast-paced, populous and traffic-congested New York I'd seen on TV was kind of scary. Luckily for me, I have ambitious friends who got their butts in gear and started grad school there, so I had built in tour guides/fellow explorers, and even a surprise welcome sign!
My first day I spent about three hours wandering Central Park, which was beautiful. I spent about half that time in search of the Conservatory Garden, eventually realizing that the maps function on my phone puts me about 20 yards east of wherever I actually am and I'd been wandering in its vicinity for about 20 minutes without ever seeing it. That was thanks also in part to some small hills that blocked it from view. I eventually did find it, by which time I was much more interested in the bathroom than the gardens themselves.
That's me! With New York in the background!
The Brooklyn bridge:
With Freddie!
And one of the only other moments I took out my camera, when I found a grocery store called Garden of Eden! So many things to love about that.
Basically it went like this:
Day 1: Central Park and rooftop bar with triple hot alcoholic chocolate.
Day 2: The Met, Soho, Greenwich Village, Gray's Papaya hot dog, Brazilian food, and Bhangra dancing.
Day 3: China town, Wall Street, Brooklyn.
Day 4: Astoria, Queens, really cool sculpture park (photos to come), lamb on a stick.
Day 5: Bowling Green, Statue of Liberty for afar, Brooklyn Bridge.
Day 6: Artichoke Benedict at Norma's, MOMA, a 30 block walk to Union Square, drinks at the Empire Hotel of Gossip Girl fame.
Day 7: One last bagel!
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