last sunday was all about NEW YORK. a full post to come [maybe multiple posts]… i was there on business but took some extra days, so it was a total of 5 nights and it was amazing. gosh, i love that city. i had been several times before, and i feel right at home in it. oh yessss, i could totally live there. it’s vibrant and glitzy but also has that real-deal city grunge, and all these different neighborhoods with different personalities, and i just can’t get enough. you could spend a lifetime there and never, ever run out of things to do… it’s endless.
and there’s something mildly nerve-wracking about thinking of finding your way around the city with its sheer enormity and the numbered streets and subway system and supposedly unfriendly people [which totally isn’t true most of the time, as i’ve found out], at least when you haven’t been back in a while, but within a day, you’re zipping around the city on the subway and hailing cabs like a local. and THAT feels so good.
another thing about NYC: you expect that all the people you see on the streets will be either celebrities or high-fashion models or important businesspeople or homeless people. and there are plenty of all of those for sure [well, maybe less celebrities than expected] :) – when we first got there, my coworker and i would be walking down the street, constantly grabbing each other’s arms, whispering, “did you see that girl? she totally had to be a runway model,” or “oh wow, he must be somebody important!” but there are also lots of foreigners – people speaking soooo many different languages or english in a foreign accent [everyone seemed to have an accent] – and tourists and middle class people and young professionals and old people and parents and normal people who are just like me. and it’s kind of a relief, actually, because you don’t feel as out of place or “ordinary” as you might think [which i can sometimes even feel in dallas, and i live there!]. you’ll never be an outsider in new york, because there will always be other people, lots of them, in your same situation, no matter what situation that is. it’s pretty interesting.
and then, when the leaves are all gold and red and orange and the light is a little more silvery and the air has that crisp feeling that can only be fall, well, i’m just completely in my glory. there’s just nothing like it! i was completely giddy the whole trip.
and that’s my goodness for sunday and this whole weekend… when can i come back, NYC??