Sorry it has been a while since I last blogged-so much has happened! I'll try to recap the most important/most exciting events from the last few weeks. I have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of my cousin Camilla from England on Monday, December 1st (which also happened to be the same day that one of my best friends from college moved to the same place I'm living here in NYC). Camilla had never been to New York and I was so excited to show her around the city. I had to work a double shift that night (Beauty Blitz internship from 10-6 and Anthropologie from 7-close). When I left my internship that night I was feeling a little funny and when I got off the subway all hell broke loose. I threw up on my way out and ended up not being able to go into work. I spent the entire night feeling horrible while Amanda (who had literally been in New York a total of five hours) came to the rescue bringing me supplies and entertaining Camilla for the night. I was feeling much better in the morning but decided to take it easy and rest the next day. Camilla and Amanda took a trip out to Staten Island to ride the ferry and see New York by water. From what I gather, it was a very cold trip!
On Friday, I was feeling up to moving around so we decided to spend the day doing lots of touristy things. We took a stroll up to Rockefeller Center to window shop, see Christmas decorations, Radio City, the tree in Rockefeller Center and shop. We headed up to Central Park next and stopped into FAO Schwartz and Tiffany for some fun. We took our time strolling down 5th Avenue taking in the craziness of the Christmas season in the city. We came back that night and had dinner and then walked down to Magnolia Bakery on Bleeker Street for desert. We had a pretty chill night watching movies and talking about our plans for the next few days.
On Saturday, Camilla and I got up early and headed to Central Park to go ice skating at Wollman rink. There are several rinks in the city (Rock Center and Bryant Park) but I had decided that in order to get the quintessential New York experience (and see the park as well) we should go to Wollman. It was very crowded and a little intimidating getting onto the ice for the first time in years (the last time I skated I was probably in middle school) but after a couple of laps we started to get the hang of it. After about an hour and a half we were so exhausted we decided to call it quits for the day (so we'd be able to feel our legs, calfs and other muscles the following day!) We took a quick walk in the park over to the Mall and Literary Walk, the Boat House and Strawberry Fields. We headed back to the Markle for lunch and quickly got ready and headed over to Bar 515 in Murray Hill to watch the SEC Championship game. It was so insane and packed with people! Camilla had been to Auburn and attended a football game so we thought we'd show her the large Auburn following in NYC. It was such an exciting game and a great end to the night!
On Sunday, we got up very early and took the subway over to Port Authority. I've been hearing about this amazing outlet, Woodbury Common, located an hour north of the city so we decided we'd make a shopping day trip out of it. We took a bus up to Central Valley (not a bad ride) and were prepared to shop 'til we dropped. When we arrived it was bitterly cold (flurries!) and we weren't expecting the outlet to be so large-it was seriously a small shopping village! We tried to strategically plan out what to do, but in the end we spent about 8 hours shopping and could have stayed another day (had we had the funds to do so). It had some of the most amazing stores from Tory Burch, J Crew, Longchamp, L'Occitane, Ann Taylor, French Connection, Oscar de la Renta, Prada, David Yurman and more (about 220 in all!) When Amanda and I get jobs with real money, we are going back for a major shopping spree! When we got back that night we grabbed a quick hot dog on the street for dinner (a very New York thing to do!) and settled down to watch Love Actually.
On Monday it was back to reality as I headed off to my internship and Camilla went back to England. It was an amazing weekend (despite being unexpectedly sick) spent with some of my favorite people doing fun things.
"They say life's what happens when you're busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you're waiting for a table."---Sex and the City
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