Wednesday, August 22, 2018

NYC 2018!

We're on our last day of NYC 2018. We have had a great time and walked a LOT. 

Dinner with the Suhs at Cote Korean. We then hit Comedy Cellar which was hilarious as always.

Dominique Ansel for our second try at cronuts. This time the flavor was Key Lime Dulche de Leche which I was so-so about.

Chai tea Latte for me and Macchiato for Dae at About Coffee

First day...we've been walking and walking and walking...aimlessly at times.... :)

View from Brooklyn. Williamsburg bridge I believe.

Brooklyn Bridge! We walked across it. It is so pretty.  However I had to pee the entire time we were walking across and had no idea it was a mile long. By the end I was practically running to find a place!

Juliana's Pizza in Brooklyn. A big line for pizza, and we waited about 30 minutes. Ordered a margherita pizza with meatballs. Yummy.

Brooklyn Bridge. When looking at this photo I immediately noticed I had food between teeth #10 and 11 :)

Sunset Salsa at Pier 45! Super fun. It was a free lesson and open to the public. A 45 minute lesson (harder than I thought, but I am pretty sure I'm better than Dae. haha)

Citibike-ing in Brooklyn. This time we took the subway to the Brooklyn Heights area and walked the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (views of Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan). BTW I wear this Trouve black jumpsuit pretty much every day now...

Matcha Tea Lattes - Dae got an oolong matcha tea latte and I got a regular matcha tea latte.

We arrived early to the sunset salsa and this was the venue before it filled up. It's a really wide pier in the West Village area with nice views towards Jersey City. It really filled up later (probably hundreds of people salsa-ing)

Comedy Cellar. So funny! We went twice. I am really amazed by these comedians. They are seriously funny. Anyway, you need to make reservations and then show up and it's down the stairs and in this tiny venue with people crammed in at tables. We love it! Thanks to Kelly and Al for introducing us to the idea of going to comedy shows a couple years ago. I was not a believer before :)

Side notes:


  • We happened upon the original Tiffany store on 5th Avenue and I realized I've never been in to the flagship store. It was cool to see the store because it looked so familiar from Breakfast at Tiffany (and Sweet Home Alabama!). They have the Tiffany Diamond on display - this huge yellow diamond found somewhere in Africa, I think, and it was absolutely enormous. The lady I asked said there is no value assigned to it but I bet I could Google its value...
  • There's this natural make-up store called Credo in SoHo that I had read about prior to coming to NYC so we walked there today and it was great. I got 4 items that I was really excited about.  A foundation, concealer, lip balm and eyeshadow.
  • I can't remember walking this much in prior trips. We've just found it more convenient and it's super easy to walk places. Traffic here can be backed up, and sometimes the subway does not go exactly where we want. So we are planning to walk to our dinner tonight, at Wildair, which is a mile away. Walking has been very pleasant because the weather has been perfect - not too hot and not too cold. Around 75-80 degrees.
  • We went to Joe's Shanghai the second day and had dinner for a total of $21. Two orders of Xiao Long baos and an order of green scallion pancake. I honestly can't remember the last time Dae and I went out to dinner anywhere for the price of $21. 


Outside of NYC:

This is our haircutting set up during summer. My mom took this photo two weeks ago. It looks like I'm about to stab him with the scissors but I think (and hope) it's an optical illusion. haha.

So cute. Olin has been wearing this same outfit for 6 days and 6 nights straight. No shower, no nothing. And I am ok with that. ha! Olin told us via FaceTime last night that he went for the swim test at J-Camp (Jewish camp) of one lap in the pool doing side breathing and he passed! He was very pleased with himself. He said he was "the only one that passed" and then elaborated that this was out of a total of two kids.

They all went to Boeing Family Day on Sunday. My cousin Andrew's son Grayson (blue shirt) was also there, as well as Andrew and his parents (my aunt and uncle).
Ev and I signed our kids up for Jewish Camp on Mercer Island this year. We had heard it was good. My mom is telling me there is so much smoke in Seattle that they have been relegated to indoor activities so I am hoping they are still having a good time! I think if they are with cousin Didi and on vacation with Puo Puo they will have a good time. Plus we keep catching them during "iPad time" when we try to FaceTime them so based on that fact alone I assume they are having a great time :)

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