the city that never sleeps, part I.

the day after graduation i drove 12 hours straight from san diego to salt lake to catch an 11:30pm flight to nyc to visit my sister with my sisters...! best/worst thing i ever did!

after not getting any sleep on the plane, i finally got to lizzie's cute street and apartment at about 8am. 

how cute is this? katie arrived on wednesday, amanda arrived saturday and i got there sunday.

you'd be sad if you knew how many of these '4' pictures we took. in public.

saturday was full of rain. it didn't stop. turns out my cute 'rain coat' actually isn't a rain coat and i was soaked to the bone. i also wore flare pants instead of skinny jeans which was an interesting choice on my end. my pants were wet all the way up to my knees front and back and on my thighs. it sounds miserable but we still had fun!

the american girl store really treated us well. as a family of four girls, we obsessed over AG. my dad would give me a catalog and i'd circle everything i wanted and for christmas i'd get some of them. am i just now realizing that i was spoiled growing up?

at this time all three of us were on our phones. i hurried to put mine down before katie got a picture. what a shame!

the rainy weather did wonders to the city. the buildings looked so dreamy disappearing into the fog.

my sister lizzie lives in washington heights in a cute area! there were places to run around her apartment, but amanda wanted to run in central park so we did just that. i took her to my favorite place in nyc which is bathesda terrace. most  beautiful fountain and terrace in america. (can i say that?) its so beautiful that blair and chuck got married there. again, the fog was dreamy.

how funny is my dad? 

my family kitty just recently died and he was pretty sad about it and missed his company. he watched bandit while jon was in moab and i was in new york with my sisters. he pretended he hated him but i think he liked having him around. 

the next day gave us nice weather! i loved that we got to see the city in the fog and rain, but also on a nice day. my favorite thing is standing on a corner looking up the street and seeing how many blocks up you can see. on saturday it was too foggy to do that.

we took the ferry out to staten island and back for the views of downtown. it was pretty but mostly just really crowded. it's amazing how comfortable people are with being close to strangers!!!!

to be continued...