First Impressions

I guess moving to a new city is kind of like meeting a stranger. You may have heard about this person beforehand, but you never know until you actually sit down and spend some time with them. This weekend, I met New York City.

Back in Missouri, everyone has some word of advice when it comes to tackling a city like the Big Apple. Everything from "walk on the left, stand to the right" to "don't go to the movie theater... they have bed bugs". I, on the other hand, have absolutely zero NYC experience. But for my first post, I thought it would be fun to list my first impressions of my new friend NYC. Well, at least I hope its my new friend. I still need to get to know her a little better.

• Buying a fake handbag has to be as close to a drug deal I will ever experience
• The subway system is the mecca of people watching locations
• If you are a fashionable New Yorker, you must wear your shades on the train
• If everyone in Manhattan had a car, I am convinced they would not all fit
• The only quiet places in Manhattan are St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Top of the Rock
• Times Square= Sensory Overload
• The best tour guide for the Statue of Liberty is a three year old who will tell anyone about the "Statude of Lizerdy" on the Staten Island Ferry
• The residents of Brooklyn deserve every ounce of "street cred" they are given
• European tourists usually have the worst body odor, so sitting near by to listen to their accents is generally not a good idea
• Just like the South has their hospitality and the Midwest their work ethic, New Yorker are just rude. Its not personal, its just their thing.
• Visiting the ground zero memorial on the evening of 9/11 will prove to anyone how united this cultural melting pot really is
• Things in this city are older than America.. think about it.. You don't find things that old in the Midwest
• And finally, there are people everywhere, all the time, always.

-ashley