new york city
back from new york city two nights ago and being bored at this web design camp thing again (dont want to start working on my flash movie yet because i will later and then i'll just get frustrated from doing it too long). here are the highlights (not in order of best-of but in how early i thought of them)
1. waiting 6 hours in rdu on wednesday because the flight was delayed and delayed and delayed like 4 times because of inclement weather. and at first they were like well if we can get onto the plane in 20 minutes we should be ok but we couldnt move fast enough and so the flight ended up getting cancelled and so we left first thing thursday morning which wasn't so bad because we only had to wait in the morning for like 45 minutes and we got to my uncle's appartment at like 9:30 so we still had time to go to all the places.
2. the moma had the best chocolate croissant at the espresso bar. it was like buttery and yummy and then we went to the architechture and design exhibit and the pirasso and cezane traveling thing that was in. then we went to carnegie deli with my uncle jeff for lunch and they have such huge sandwiches there. no one ever finishes. you have to wonder what happens to all the leftovers. good pickings for the homeless guys out on the street? waste of food. then my aunt hannah who works at teenpeople gave us a tour even though she was on deadline for the next day and i got to raid the beauty closet and get free makeup and stuff which is always a plus. a cd too this time... simple plan but not the new one so maybe i'll pick that up at barnes and noble for the trip to florida on saturday. the black eyed peas album too because, why not. i still have like $100 to spend there a year after my bat mitzvah...
3. then on friday we saw the frick house which was a gorgeous house but i started feeling sick in the middle of looking at all the paintings and there were like these guys standing in all the rooms in fancy coats and when i tried to sit down they were like no. so it kind of ruined it for me but it was still such a pretty house. the ceilings and walls and furniture. so intricate and beautiful! there was also this cool courtyard in the middle of the house with like a pond. it was white marble and green plants and the burbling fountain, it was just gorgeous! then mom and i navigated the city and made our way down to soho which was pretty cool and there was this one cool indian shop and i almost bought a tunic but it was like $35 and i was going to feel horrible if i got it and it just sat in my drawer. pretty cute though. i wish we had stores like that in chapel hill but we don't.
4. while in chicago a few weeks ago i made the pleasant discovery of frappechinos and so everywhere you go in new york there's a starbucks or a dean and deluca on like every cornere. we didn't get any starbucks but had dean and deluca's mocha frappe's twice. they are so expensive though! like $4.50 for a large at rockerfeller center (we walked there too after visiting teenpeople) and at the gigantic dean and delucas in soho it was $5.00 which made mom pretty mad that it should be more expensive at one place and not the other. also at the dean and delucas in soho they ran out of ice and so the lady behind the counter was trying to take it out of the food which was GROSS but then they found some but they did it so fast and hurridily (we had been waiting) that it wasn't as good as the one at rockerfeller center. ah well.
5. finally on saturday we saw wicked in the theater district which was awesome. **my first broadway show** it was really good. i've been wanting to see it ever since i heard the soundtrack way back in sunday school carpool with mia (she's moved to illinois now). then i got hooked and read the book last summer and then this summer i got to see it!
6. after wicked walked around times square and went into the mtv store (where they film trl but they weren't filming because it was saturday and trl is in las vegas this summer anyway) and i got this really really cute messenger bag. then i went to buy it and the lady behind the counter said it was named for like lindsey lohan and when she came to trl for the launch she expected special treatment because "she's so great" and then the people outside were like so what... and she didnt get any. which is actually pretty funny.
6. the flight home was ok. we were only delayed about an hour or so which wasn't so bad i guess. you never know with the summer weather. dad said it thundered and rained really hard at home.
7. i hate the way it smells in new york. i just felt so dirty on the subway and like walking in the street after touching something in a store. dirty dirty dirty. i would get back to my uncles appartment and just like wash my hands for a few minutes because it was so disgusting. the smells too. getting off the airplane in rdu it smelled better already and i was just like yesssssssss!
8. didn't really do anything yesterday. went to camp. started a flash movie. got a letter from norah who reminded me once again to get her some makeup at teenpeople! i swear she doesnt care about anything else!
9. i dont have anything else to say and i think we're going out to break soon so i think i will stop. especially since no one is reading this because no one is home except for me!!!!
1. waiting 6 hours in rdu on wednesday because the flight was delayed and delayed and delayed like 4 times because of inclement weather. and at first they were like well if we can get onto the plane in 20 minutes we should be ok but we couldnt move fast enough and so the flight ended up getting cancelled and so we left first thing thursday morning which wasn't so bad because we only had to wait in the morning for like 45 minutes and we got to my uncle's appartment at like 9:30 so we still had time to go to all the places.
2. the moma had the best chocolate croissant at the espresso bar. it was like buttery and yummy and then we went to the architechture and design exhibit and the pirasso and cezane traveling thing that was in. then we went to carnegie deli with my uncle jeff for lunch and they have such huge sandwiches there. no one ever finishes. you have to wonder what happens to all the leftovers. good pickings for the homeless guys out on the street? waste of food. then my aunt hannah who works at teenpeople gave us a tour even though she was on deadline for the next day and i got to raid the beauty closet and get free makeup and stuff which is always a plus. a cd too this time... simple plan but not the new one so maybe i'll pick that up at barnes and noble for the trip to florida on saturday. the black eyed peas album too because, why not. i still have like $100 to spend there a year after my bat mitzvah...
3. then on friday we saw the frick house which was a gorgeous house but i started feeling sick in the middle of looking at all the paintings and there were like these guys standing in all the rooms in fancy coats and when i tried to sit down they were like no. so it kind of ruined it for me but it was still such a pretty house. the ceilings and walls and furniture. so intricate and beautiful! there was also this cool courtyard in the middle of the house with like a pond. it was white marble and green plants and the burbling fountain, it was just gorgeous! then mom and i navigated the city and made our way down to soho which was pretty cool and there was this one cool indian shop and i almost bought a tunic but it was like $35 and i was going to feel horrible if i got it and it just sat in my drawer. pretty cute though. i wish we had stores like that in chapel hill but we don't.
4. while in chicago a few weeks ago i made the pleasant discovery of frappechinos and so everywhere you go in new york there's a starbucks or a dean and deluca on like every cornere. we didn't get any starbucks but had dean and deluca's mocha frappe's twice. they are so expensive though! like $4.50 for a large at rockerfeller center (we walked there too after visiting teenpeople) and at the gigantic dean and delucas in soho it was $5.00 which made mom pretty mad that it should be more expensive at one place and not the other. also at the dean and delucas in soho they ran out of ice and so the lady behind the counter was trying to take it out of the food which was GROSS but then they found some but they did it so fast and hurridily (we had been waiting) that it wasn't as good as the one at rockerfeller center. ah well.
5. finally on saturday we saw wicked in the theater district which was awesome. **my first broadway show** it was really good. i've been wanting to see it ever since i heard the soundtrack way back in sunday school carpool with mia (she's moved to illinois now). then i got hooked and read the book last summer and then this summer i got to see it!
6. after wicked walked around times square and went into the mtv store (where they film trl but they weren't filming because it was saturday and trl is in las vegas this summer anyway) and i got this really really cute messenger bag. then i went to buy it and the lady behind the counter said it was named for like lindsey lohan and when she came to trl for the launch she expected special treatment because "she's so great" and then the people outside were like so what... and she didnt get any. which is actually pretty funny.
6. the flight home was ok. we were only delayed about an hour or so which wasn't so bad i guess. you never know with the summer weather. dad said it thundered and rained really hard at home.
7. i hate the way it smells in new york. i just felt so dirty on the subway and like walking in the street after touching something in a store. dirty dirty dirty. i would get back to my uncles appartment and just like wash my hands for a few minutes because it was so disgusting. the smells too. getting off the airplane in rdu it smelled better already and i was just like yesssssssss!
8. didn't really do anything yesterday. went to camp. started a flash movie. got a letter from norah who reminded me once again to get her some makeup at teenpeople! i swear she doesnt care about anything else!
9. i dont have anything else to say and i think we're going out to break soon so i think i will stop. especially since no one is reading this because no one is home except for me!!!!
