NYC- Takeaways

 So I left on Thursday to meet Jason in NYC so I could see him ring the bell at the stock exchange on Friday.  I've never been to New York, so here are my takeaways from the weekend. 

1. I was really excited about going and was a total dork and took pictures from the airplane.

2. Speaking of the airplane, I was cold from the time the airplane landed until we got back to Houston.  I had no idea it was going to be so cold and windy! Here I am wearing 2 coats! I have on a leather jacket underneath my overcoat and I was still freezing. 

3. TV and movies led me to believe everybody was going to be more fashionable.  I didn't see one person dressed up.  If fact, we went to a Broadway show and I left my coat on the whole entire time because 1. I was cold and 2. I was embarrassed that I was overdressed. 

This is what we looked like. 

Everybody else at the show was wearing sweatpants and leggings.

4. I felt a little like country come to town as I kept thinking "it's just so big". 

The buildings are really tall, the streets are really narrow, and there are long lines for everything.  I'm not sure what I was expecting, and it's not like I've never been anywhere before.  Maybe time has softened my memory, but it seemed way more crowded than Beijing, Hong Kong, or Tokyo.  We walked down to the Bull of Wall Street and here's the crowd around that. I mean, it's just a statue of a bull. 

Jason wanted us to get a selfie with it, and you can't even see it!

5. And last I'm putting this here because I don't know where else I'll put it.  We went to the 9/11 memorial and museum.  It was absolutely heart wrenching, and I was on the verge of tears the entire time.  It was just so, so sad. 

But, we definitely saw all the things we were supposed to see and ate all the things we were supposed to eat, so I will get to those in the coming days!