As our time here grows short, we're thinking a lot about this city.
Here are a few of our favorite things:
- art museums
- doughnuts. for the love, these doughnuts.
- street fairs
- Brooklyn
- Central Park
- hair envy. people here have really great hair.
- the sense of community. New Yorkers are proud of where they're from and united in their own cute way. (Jason describes it as the "older sibling" feeling: they give it to you straight and are often pretty rude. But you feel like if you really needed them, they've got your back.)
- art museums
- Greta in a raincoat
- Central Park
- how many things you can do for free. We're really going to miss free museum nights.
- tall tree canopies. I'm sorry, but nothing compares to New England trees.
- Prospect Park
- bakeries
- living on the coast and being close to the ocean
- New York accents
- art museums
- how green it is
- dogs in bags on the train
- the Children's Reading Room in the library
- parks and playgrounds and splash pads everywhere
- the subway. it's a drag sometimes, but actually an amazingly efficient system. and living without a car ain't so bad!
- pizza. it's different out here.
- did we mention Central Park?
- rich-people streets with doormen and rich-people dogs
- how much is going on all the time. Jason and I do not mind the fast pace of this city one bit.
A few least favorites:
- rootbeer is not a standard fountain drink
- the smell of urine in elevators everywhere. The other day there was just straight-up a puddle.
- so many stairs, so little stroller accessibility. We have no idea how people live in this city in a wheelchair.
- language. we've discovered the common vernacular can be pretty vulgar, at best.
- how the humidity makes our crackers and chips weirdly soft and stale
Thursday's goodbye is not going to be easy.
We've been here long enough that we ache at the thought of going and we realize how much of our heart might forever stay here. I also get sentimental about absolutely every place we live, so you can bet we'll get home and I'll go through all of our pictures and post 40,759,237 of them.
Here are a few of our favorite things:
- art museums
- doughnuts. for the love, these doughnuts.
- street fairs
- Brooklyn
- Central Park
- hair envy. people here have really great hair.
- the sense of community. New Yorkers are proud of where they're from and united in their own cute way. (Jason describes it as the "older sibling" feeling: they give it to you straight and are often pretty rude. But you feel like if you really needed them, they've got your back.)
- art museums
- Greta in a raincoat
- Central Park
- how many things you can do for free. We're really going to miss free museum nights.
- tall tree canopies. I'm sorry, but nothing compares to New England trees.
- Prospect Park
- bakeries
- living on the coast and being close to the ocean
- New York accents
- art museums
- how green it is
- dogs in bags on the train
- the Children's Reading Room in the library
- parks and playgrounds and splash pads everywhere
- the subway. it's a drag sometimes, but actually an amazingly efficient system. and living without a car ain't so bad!
- pizza. it's different out here.
- did we mention Central Park?
- rich-people streets with doormen and rich-people dogs
- how much is going on all the time. Jason and I do not mind the fast pace of this city one bit.
A few least favorites:
- rootbeer is not a standard fountain drink
- the smell of urine in elevators everywhere. The other day there was just straight-up a puddle.
- so many stairs, so little stroller accessibility. We have no idea how people live in this city in a wheelchair.
- language. we've discovered the common vernacular can be pretty vulgar, at best.
- how the humidity makes our crackers and chips weirdly soft and stale
Thursday's goodbye is not going to be easy.
We've been here long enough that we ache at the thought of going and we realize how much of our heart might forever stay here. I also get sentimental about absolutely every place we live, so you can bet we'll get home and I'll go through all of our pictures and post 40,759,237 of them.
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