What a model! She’s surprising me in her “live to eat” attitude. Holly looooves solid food! She’s such a baby bird, open mouth waiting for me to pop a spoon on in! Here she is in her “meant to be fall coat but now it’s a spring coat cuz she’s so tiny.”

Things We Did

• Korea Town
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Times Square
• Rockefeller Center
• Manhattan Temple
• Central Park [Plan a picnic here next time]
• 5th Avenue Apple Store
• Soho [I would love to spend a few hours on Spring Street]
• DUMBO
• Empire State Building [Buy your tickets online, their half price and you don’t have to select a date]
• MoMA [Note to self: Spend more time here on your next trip]

Places We Ate At

• Front Street Pizza – 80 Front Street, NYC
• Magnolia Bakery – 1240 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
• Cosmic Cafe – 132 West 31st Street, NYC
• Pinkberry – 170 8th Ave, NYC [One of these is opening in Denver 10 minutes away from us ahhh yeah!]
• Red Mango – 39 West 32nd Street, NYC
• Blu – 127 West 28th Street, NYC
• Angelo’s Pizza – 117 West 57th Street, NYC
• Taj Mahal – 318 East 6th Street, NYC [Curry Row on 6th between 1st and 2nd Ave, you can get a delicious 5-6 course meal for $10 per person]
• Bagel Maven – 362 7th Ave, NYC
• Shake Shack – Madison Square Park [Must go here again!]

Where We Shopped

• Purl – 137 Sullivan Street, NYC
• Purl Patchwork – 147 Sullivan Street, NYC
• Lomography Gallery Store- 41 West 8th Street, NYC
• Da’Vinci – 37 West 8th Street, NYC
• Crumpler Bags – 45 Spring Street, NYC
• MoMa Design & Book Store – 81 Spring Street, NYC
• Moon & Star Inc. – 5 West 32nd Street, NYC [High-end children’s store… large selection!]
• Jaeyoon Jeong Collection – 29 Spring Street, NYC
• Dae Sung Headwear – 65 West 8th Street, NYC
• Botani – 263 West 36th Street, NYC [spent $15 on buttons]
• Mood – 225 West 37th Street, NYC
• Half Pint Citizens – 55 Washington Street, DUMBO [high-end children’s store]
• Pomme – 81 Washington Street, DUMBO [high-end children’s store]

I loved New York and I must go back. If I were to go back for a week I would choose to go in April or May. I would walk across the Brooklyn Bridge again and take the [free] Staten Island Ferry and get a good look at the Statue of Liberty. Then I would shop the Flea Market on the DUMBO side of the Brooklyn Bridge (the flea market seemed to be a seasonal thing since it wasn’t up and running when we went). I would spend an afternoon on Spring Street in Soho and visit all of the neat shops. Of course, I’d hit fashion avenue again and visit more fabric shops. I would go back to the MoMA and take a trip to the Metropolitan Museum. I would also love to see “Les Miserable.” Curry Row, Blu, the Shake Shack, Magnolia Bakery and Pinkberry are definite “must-eats.” Am I missing anything? Spend an evening at Times Square, a lifetime in Central Park… Maybe we should just move to NYC for a year or two. That would be quite the experience!

Oh and for anyone going to New York anytime soon, I found a J-Crew sample sale on 36th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue. The place it was at looked set-up for sample sales all the time so check it out! And let me know!

Saw this on some stairs exiting the Brooklyn Bridge on the Brooklyn side.