new york city - final day

our flight left jfk on friday at 4:40pm, so we had to leave our hotel around 2pm to catch a cab to the airport. that meant we had the morning to play around the city for just a few more hours! the weather was much less frigid (and 75 at home!). we went into super elite stores like bergdorf goodman and tiffany's to pick out our future engagement rings. we stopped at h&m as well where emmie and maggie found a few articles of clothing. oh and the world of disney! we walked down to rockefeller center and watched couples ice skating and falling all over themselves. it was quite entertaining just to laugh at them! we went below for lunch at pret, and emmie's roommate from when she was at nyu met us there.




next we caught a (way too expensive and jerk of a driver) cab to jfk that took an hour in traffic. emmie and i napped along the way and we checked in to our flight without glitch. emmie got a random pat-down search just as we were entering our gate, and we had to walk outside (but not really outside because we were in a tube type object all the way) to our plane. SOMEHOW, my license flew from my hand when we were in the tube object and slid through a tiny crack and landed OUTSIDE in a puddle of melted snow. only me, only me. thankfully, i got it back.

and this was waiting for us in raleigh when we returned!!



all in all in was an action-packed trip! i almost died a million times be it from my danskos or the ice and i'm pretty sure we've never been so cold ever before! i haven't been able to get enough sleep since we've been back, but we all had so much fun and saw so much around the city! thanks to emmie, we never had to look at a map. it was nice to be guided around the city without having to think! she was our very own tour guide! i can't wait to go back - we already made a list of things we didn't have time to see.