New York, New York!!

New York was AWESOME!!
Kate, Esme, Hector and I went on a road trip to help Hector move all his stuff to NYC. It was great!!

I’ve been to NY many times, but in a way always as tourist. This time, even though I don’t live there yet, the experience was different. It was from a very local point of view and I loved it. NY is a wonderful city, a real melting pot. So European and so American at the same time… just to walk down the street and be able to listen to so many languages makes me happy. To be aloud to get hungry at 11:30 pm and find good food in a good place makes me happy. Being a night owl in a city that never sleeps is a good match…
we did tons of stuff and had lots of fun;


midnight cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery (from sex & the city),

café tacuba concert in central park,

brunch at Pastis, which I Totally recommend.

Went up to the rooftop of the amazing Gansevoort hotel to get a great view of Manhattan and NJ. While some enjoyed the awesome glass surrounded swimming pool with underwater music.


Hector lives across the street from a bar that I liked a lot called the spotted pig in West Village where I got to smoke INSIDE a bar in the city of NY! We went to a street market in Tribeca and enjoyed the perfect weather.


I even had some time to go shopping, which for me is a must in that city. We walked across Brookling bridge,

went to china town which smell will always suck and I would never stand…
went partying,



Met Kate’s brother and wife (great people) who took us for dinner to a very nice place that I forgot the name.
Coming back was another adventure; just the girls headed back to Chicago with a huge time constrain, since we left 6 hours behind schedule and Esme was suppose to make it to work at 8 am on Monday morning. We had to drive all night long with the fewest stops possible. At around 9 pm, already in Pennsylvania, we stop at Wendy’s for a quick dinner. What a bad surprise when 2:1/2 hours later at a gas station I found out that my purse was missing!! I left it at Wendy’s and we had to add 5 more hours to our already tight schedule. We figured that the only way to make it was speeding all the time and even though I certainly shouldn’t get in more speeding trouble in the U.S, so we did!!! Everything went fine until we got to Indiana (where I literally will get arrested if they catch me speeding again) Esme got her first speeding ticket. That sucked, but the good news is that we made it to Chicago pretty much on time, she didn’t get fired and I got my purse back!!
What an awesome trip!!