Welcome to New York
New York City, you did it again. Congratulations on never ceasing to amaze me and making me fall in love over and over again.
My first trip to NYC this summer was nothing short of an adventure, and I got to embrace it alongside a new, special friend. I'm learning that every outing in a big city takes strategic planning and is occasionally, or almost always, a complicated process. First, we drove to the prestigious Princeton University. The campus is everything you would imagine an Ivy League school to be and exploring it is another activity for another day. After refueling with coffee, we boarded our first train that took us a whole ten minutes to our next train. God bless the boy that we persisted to follow to New York...he knew exactly what he was doing and we knew absolutely nothing of what we were doing. Thankfully, he was kind and didn't seem too annoyed even when we were running to catch up with him.
An hour later, we were making our way up the steps into Times Square...and it was beautiful. Not only was the scene of thousands of people, colorful lights, and chaos beautiful, but the fact that we, two innocent southern girls, made it to NYC was a beautiful thing in and of itself. I had forgotten just how much I love this city.
Friday was a cool and sunny day in the Big Apple. Although our day consisted mainly of getting lost because of our own bad sense of direction and the occasional wrong guidance of strangers, it was still wonderful. It even rained for awhile, but even the rain could not ruin the city's energy.
The city that never sleeps was still very much awake but my energy was lacking by the end of the day. We decided to give our feet a break, once again, and to take a taxi back to Penn Station. Due to the lovely rush hour traffic, I'm positive that we could have walked faster than the car was moving. Just like out of a movie, I hurriedly paid the cab fair (while being yelled at for forgetting to leave a tip- sorry it was my first taxi without my parents paying, sir) and we both sprinted a block to the train station. Out of breath, we entered the chaotic station. I found another person for us to follow and we made it back to Princeton exhausted, but in one piece.
It was a day filled with triumph and defeat, but mostly triumph.
Xo