We finally made it back to New York City! After getting engaged in Central Park on December 18, 2005, we had been longing to go back and visit. On a bit of a whim we decided to book a hotel room in NYC on July 31st. We also decided that this would be a great way to celebrate our 4th anniversary. On Saturday morning we hopped in the car and drove down to New Haven, CT (a roughly 40 min. drive). New Haven has a fairly large rail station with connections to both Boston and NYC. Once on the train, it is only about 1 hour and 45 minutes to NYC. We were on the train around 10:30am and on our way. We spent our time reading, sleeping and checking out the views from the train. We arrived at Grand Central station and spent most of our day Uptown and Midtown at Rockefeller, walking down Fifth Avenue, and spending time in Central Park.
Fortunately, there was a rare reprieve from the heat over the weekend and it was sunny and in the high 70s. In Central Park we went back to the bench where we got engaged. We were really happy to see it was still there, right by Cape Cot.
At this point it was late in the afternoon and we had been walking with all of the stuff we had brought to stay overnight. It was time to get to the hotel room. After a detour to Brooklyn, (we didn't know that in the Summer there is heavy construction on the subway lines) we dropped our stuff, changed and went in search of dinner. Our hotel was Downtown (right by Wall St in the Financial District). While on our way to dinner, we got sidetracked and went and sat down by the East River. We watched the boats and had a great view of the Brooklyn Bridge and South Street Seaport. Eventually, we made our way to dinner. We found a bar/restaurant that had blocked off the street they were located on and had set up picnic tables throughout the street. We decided to eat there and then finished the night off with drinks at Madam Geneva, which lies along Noho/Soho border. Madam Geneva was featured on the cooking channel, so we decided we had to go! It was worth the $50.00 bar bill and $30.00 cab ride. I felt like we went to great lengths for some gin and juice, but we weren't disappointed.
I promise we didn't go to NY and eat/drink for 48hrs straight - although, very tempting. I would like to bet and I hope we burned off everything by walking everywhere.
We couldn't help but to keep thinking about this shake that Brian & Christi told us about when they were in NYC. Before we made our last stop, we decided we should bring them back a little love from NY too. We pit stopped at Crumbs, for some goodies. Note the MEGA-cakes next to a big cupcake already. These 'normal' cakes are definitely meant to be shared, but not until we got to CT. These megas, just made me laugh. I can picture these being a hit at a bday party!
Our last stop was Stand4, which is known for their killer toasted marshmallow shake (which was to die for). We did get a his & her's burger so we shared a shake, but next time... I am getting my own. It is not meant to be shared. After that bad boy, aka heart attack on a plate, we walked the remained 2.5 miles to Grand central to head back home.
Ah, summer.
Now time for some fall football!!
Cheers!
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