Midwest Meets Manhattan

Today, I walked past the Empire State Building several times before I realized what it was. Cool.

I took the 1 train down to Times Square, where I then took  the 7 train over to Grand Central and then got out and walked around for a few hours. I went several cool places, my favorite being the 3-story NY flagship H&M. That may or may not have been the goal for the day. Just sayin’.

But in other notable places –

Look familiar, 30 Rock watchers? Yep. That’s right.

I call this the “I’m trying really hard not to look like a tourist taking pictures with my iPhone” shot. You’ll see more of this shooting mode later on.

Such as this shot. What is this? What exactly was I trying to capture here? Obviously, it was a failure and I didn’t realize it.

Rockefeller Plaza, from a little bit of a distance. Also known as “The Tourists: Let Me Show You Them.”

Mm. Yes. This was a fantastic store. Great sales. Unfortunately, Anthropologie, I still do not want your harem pants.

Um, yes please.

Um, yes puhleeeeeeze.

Cool! I want to do this. Except maybe when I have $20 to spare on an elevator. Ugh.

Makes you a little woozy, doesn’t it?

Yeah yeah 30 Rock!! Been wanting to see this since I got here.

And again 🙂

Man, 10 years ago I would’ve been flipping out over this. I loved American Girl.

This is the Sephora for people who enjoy optical illusions. Such as myself.

Ah, back to Grand Central so my poor toes can get some rest.

And when I got back, I had two nice surprises waiting for me. One, my other roommate Samie (sam-ya) is here! She’s really cool. I like her a lot.

Two, my garment rack has arrived! I finally beat it into cooperation and now my clothes are hanging so nicely on it. It looks very good. Takes a lot of the space over by the door. Oh well. It looks much more organized now.