Milk and White Chocolate Take the Cit-ay

 

 

Looking up the stairwell in the Chelsea Hotel

Friends, so much has happened in the last day and a half, I don’t know where to begin. Guess I’ll just start from the top. I’ll try not to go into too much detail seeing as that will make this post as long as thesis paper and no one wants to read that. Not even me.

1. Last day of work came and went. Super sad because everyone there was so nice and lovely to work with and the experience was amazing and all that jazz. But I know I made some lovely new friends so if when I return to the city, I’ll have some base contacts.
2. My aunt is here! She found me at work and we went to my favorite lasagna restaurant/bar to prove that it is really as amazing as I made it sound. Also, it was Brian, my favorite bartender in all of NYC’s night to work so it certainly wouldn’t have been okay if I didn’t say goodbye. And this friendship is totally legit because we’re now friends on Facebook. WHAT UP.
3. My aunt and I had to vacate a hostel. “What are you talking about, Chelsea?” Yeah, so, apparently NYC hotels think hostels are too much competition so they lobby to have the fire departments post “violations” in the hostels to shut them down. So at 4:30 A.M. yesterday morning, they come knocking on our door to tell us we have to leave by 8 A.M. Sleepy and with a full refund, my aunt and I checked into the Hotel Chelsea around 8:30, not even realizing how totally BOSS this place is. The history, the architecture, the art: my quality of life just went up about 100 points. It really is beautiful. And of course, the fact that we’re in Chelsea again has kind of made my life. “You are so self-absorbed.” No, but the whole same name thing is pretty hilarious as well.
4. Aunt Cortney and I traversed all around Central Park yesterday, were interviewed for a documentary about foreign affairs in the middle East, rode in a horse drawn carriage, and had tea at a French macaroon bakery. Yeah, it was cold, but totally worth it.

*The above video was shot at the same hotel I’m staying at… COOL.*

And that brings me to the lovely point in my day when I met up with CAROL. Aka, Milk Chocolate.

“Who’s Carol?”

Carol is not only one of the coolest people I know, but we met at CCY, she has the most amazing personality and fun-loving traits, the biggest and most badass fro I’ve ever seen, and she goes to Yale. What have you don’t with your life lately?

Oh, and she’s one of the people who originally called me White Chocolate at CCY. Holllaaaaa.

Anywho, she took the train into the city, we met in the giant Forever 21 and then went to a Thai restaurant and had dinner. Our conversation was so constant and so fast, it took us forever to order and eat because we didn’t even pick up the menu!

What’s so funny to me, before I continue, is that it’s been 3 years (almost) since I’ve seen the majority of my friends from CCY. The counselors there told us we would forget about each other after a year or so. But I saw my roommate at the Chicago airport, just saw Carol last night, and make sure to try and keep in contact with the girls in my hall. There’s just no excuse to fall apart when we have Facebook.

So after pad thai, we were super touristy and went into all the different Times Square stores, and then went to a friends birthday party at an Irish pub for a little bit, until eventually we made our way back to Grand Central to say our goodbyes.

The one thing about goodbyes is that they aren’t always heart-breakingly sad. Even though not seeing Carol for god knows how long is depressing, I know that I will see her again. And because it’s so easy to have a great time with her, it would be blasphemy to not try and meet up in the future.

So that’s been my last couple of days. Today is shopping and finishing up my whirlwind tour of the greatest city on Earth.

I suppose the last thing is, does anyone have any suggestions for places to go that you don’t think I’ve been to yet?

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