As most of you know I just got back from a weekend trip from the Big Apple. I went with my dearest friends Kim and Jaime. Here is a rundown of the most amazing, perfect New York trip….
Thursday, September 3rd – Jaime and I headed out in the morning while our husbands ran Daddy Daycare. We got to Edmonton at around 9:30 am and took a shuttle to WEM. We spent the entire day there walking around, and shopping a little. By 5 pm we returned to the airport and ate and then waited and waited and waited…
Friday, Spetember 4th – Our flight left at 1:30 am. Yes – The redeye! Never again! We flew to Montreal and arrived at 7 am (with the time change) and were off to New York shortly after. We arrived in NYC at around 10 am and met up with Kim at the airport. Her flight landed only minutes after ours. It was so exciting to finally be there and awesome to see Kim. Kim had set up a car service for us so we got our bags and headed to Time Square where we stayed at the Westin Hotel. The hotel was really nice. Thankfully we were able to check-in right away, shower and then hit the streets of New York. This was truly DAY ONE of our awesome trip. Lunch at Bryant Park and checked out the set up for the upcoming Fashion Week. Checked out the New York City Public Library which was floor to ceiling marble and where Carrie Bradshaw and Big were suppose to get married. We walked in Time Square, went to the Rockefeller Center and surrounding area and shopped (of course!). We found the American Girl Store and I of course had to go in and get some stuff for the girls. Three floors of every little girls dream. Dolls, clothes, playhouses, hospital, tea room, hair salon….insanity. I wish the girls could have seen that. I was thankful for Kim and Jaime who tagged along but it seemed like they too were having fun checking everything out. Although Kim wasn’t impressed the with “Asian Doll” that didn’t look very Asian. Macy’s was having a shoe sale so we of course had to check it out. Jaime and I found a pair each and Kim struck gold with 3 or 4 pairs. For dinner we went to Serendipity 3. For those of you who don’t know this is were the movie Serendipity was filmed. We had a 45 minute wait so we headed to Dylan’s Candy Bar to shop for our loved ones we left behind.
The food at Serendipity was good. The portions were huge. Jaime and Kim enjoyed some Frrrozen Hot chocolate. After a long day of travel, shopping, sightseeing and eating we went back to the hotel.
Saturday, September 5th – Kleinfelds! We woke up pretty early to get all fancy and make sure we made it on time. We took a cab there. The building was beautiful! Inside and out. We were so giddy and star struck. It was awesome. Keasha was running late in true Keasha style. We didn’t mind. We were having a great time and hadn’t even left the lobby yet. We got into our appointment with Keasha and she was hilarious! She sent us to the back to root through the dresses. We hadn’t even gone through one row and she was yelling at Kim to get in the dressing room to try on some dresses. Keasha was a blast. She let us in on some TLC, Say Yes to the dress drama. But we’d have to kill you if we told you so it’s best to spare your lives. Kleinfelds was the purpose of our whole trip. We were scheduled to be filmed and have Kim featured on Say Yes to the Dress but because of scheduling headaches we got moved to B-roll which we think meant that they would come do a little thing with us and not the whole interviews etc. But in the end there was drama going on downstairs with a dress fitting with a bride they had already filmed so we saw the cameras upstairs for a whole 5 minutes. We might be in the background?? Who knows? But we weren’t all that upset about it. Had the cameras been there I’m not sure we would have had the laughs that we did. After the appointment we went for some lunch and toasted to an awesome morning. Then headed to Soho (South of Houston) for some…..shopping, yes. We searched for DKNY but did not find it and our feet hurt and it had been such a long day that we decided to head over to Lombardi’s Pizza which was everything we heard it was going to be. The pizza was well worth the 45 minute wait. After dinner we headed over to Pinkberry for some frozen yogurt. A super cute dessert shop with yummy flavors. A cab ride back to our hotel and already our trip was half over.
Sunday, September 6 – Our main goal for our last day in NYC was to get tickets to Wicked (the Broadway play). The box office opened at noon and we got there just before. There were 2 huge line-ups and after hanging around for about 10 minutes we realized our chances looked grim. So we left a little defeated but as we were walking we spotted Mamma Mia and decided to check it out and see if there were any available tickets there. Lucky us, there were. We had an hour or so to spare so we walked to Anthropology to return a belt, JCrew for a sweater for Kim and then ended up in a Brazilian festival/market. The streets were closed for the vendors and a huge stage for music. Loads of people. We got back to the Winter Garden Theater for 2 pm. The show (Mamma Mia) was amazing. It had us laughing, singing and bopping in our seats. Such a good time. The plan after the show was to head over the Central Park and then Century 21. Because it looked like it might rain we just headed over to Century 21. We spent almost an hour browsing. Other than some really nice high end things I didn’t really find all that much that I liked. Kim found a few things for Phil and I got Benj and the girls one thing each. Jaime and Kim were craving some pasta so we headed over to Little Itay and wouldn’t you know it…another street festival. Our dinner was fabulous but again the portions were so massive. Jaime ended the night with a cannoli and that was that. Our last night in NYC had arrived and we were back at the hotel by 11 pm.
Monday, September 7th – Up and ready for our morning flight. We were all on the same flight to Toronto. We said our sad goodbyes to Kim and onto the next leg to Edmonton. We were pretty sure we would not make our last leg to Yellowknife as the planes were full and we were flying on passes but by some miracle Jaime and I both made it home.
And there’s my weekend summary. Check out our flickr for some NYC shots.
