New York - Thursday

Dave goes up to New York city about once every 6 weeks for work. He normally only goes up for the day, but last week was scheduled to have a 2 day trip. Since he had meetings on Thursday and Friday, we decided it would be fun to take Ellie up on her first trip to the big city.

We took the 7AM shuttle up to LaGuardia, which required waking up at 4:45! Although the travel time door to door was fairly similar to taking the train, it required a lot less sitting still, which we were grateful for.

Upon arrival, we took a cab to Queens to see my aunt, had her morning nap and lunch, then took the subway to Manhattan to check into our hotel. We stayed at a really trendy boutique hotel called Cooper Square Hotel. Walking in with my suburban mommy outfit (jeans, tshirt, flip flops), I felt pretty out of place. No black skinny jeans, oversized sun glasses and 5 inch ankle boots?!?!

Our room was small, simply decorated, but very luxurious. Located on the 19th floor, our room had a fantastic view of lower Manhattan. There was a fully stocked mini fridge located in the side of the armoire. They provided 3 different robes in 3 different fabrics (towel, terry and silk). The walk in shower had a rain forest shower head and a steamer! There's NOTHING has wonderful has taking 5 minutes to relax in the shower with a steamer going full blast.

Our view from the hotel

The hotel is located in the East Village, a wonderfully diverse and exciting area of Manhattan with lots of restaurants and night life. My aunt graciously offered to babysit Ellie while Dave, my cousin Jonathan and I went got late night yakitori snacks at Village Yokocho. Being so suburban, it was very exciting to be eating out late in New York city.