One Week is not enough in New York City
New York was our last stop on a whirl-wind 3-month tour of America. We had purchased our round-trip tickets from Bangkok to New York City, which means we needed to be back in New York to catch our return flight to Thailand. We managed to spend a full week in the city.
We were staying in one of the top New York City hotels, which is what we saved up all our travel money for, we wanted to experience the best New York has to offer, and we weren’t disappointed. It rained the whole day we arrived, so needless to say we got soaked in Central Park. We ducked inside a museum and had a great time trying not to drip or way through the Meso-American pottery and the Impressionism period. We got the nastiest looks from people, but, luckily no one kicked us out.
After mopping up at the museum, we went to the oldest bar in New York and proceeded to drink some pretty strong local brew. This helped us get over the rainy day and the wet experience in the museum. After several shots of liquor, we stumbled back to our hotel room by 4am, we managed to take off all our damp clothes and take a nice shower before we fell asleep.
Much later the next day, when we finally woke up, the weather had improved immensely. The sun was shining and the temperature was decent. We hit the town! We walked all over the city and got to watch a taping of the ‘Late Night’ show with Jimmy Fallon. That was a real treat. Jimmy’s guest that day was Paul Simon! Paul played with The Roots and we were in music heaven. Then Jimmy’s next guest was Steve Martin! He was so funny. Finally, Tina Fey showed up and she sat with us, the audience! I could barely believe it! This was definitely the highlight of our trip.
We didn’t think anything would be as exciting as the taping of the show, but when we took the Staten Island Ferry to see the Statue of Liberty and that was pretty cool too, she’s no Tina Fey, but Ms. Liberty has her own flare and history.
During the week, we got to see the Hard Rock Cafe located in Times Square, FAO Schwartz, the Brooklyn Bridge, The Guggenheim, The Met, The Empire State Building and got to eat tons of New York style pizza. There was so much more we wanted to do, but we ran out of time. I recommend that if you’re on a tour of the United States, do make New York City your last stop and if at all possible, stay longer than a week; a week is not enough time to experience all this vast city has to offer.