Bright Lights, Big City

Taken at the Top of the Rock

Went to NY/NJ for a wedding this past weekend. Spent Saturday evening in the city; only had time to whirl around Midtown. Getting there was an adventure - we had assumed we would catch a shuttle from our hotel in Basking Ridge, but the shuttles don't run on the weekends (d'oh). After some panicking, we ended up driving towards Jersey City, parked at a light rail station, took the light rail to Hoboken, then a Path train into town, and then we got on the metro. Figured all this out along the way.

Hubs had no other agenda than to 'see the sights'. As a surprise for him, I bought tickets to the Top of the Rock. We got there just in time for sundown, and it was beautiful. I'm not a stranger to city sights or seeing the skyline from the 70th floor, but it's different when the sight includes the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge in a distance. The horizon was blanketed in dense little specks of light. We saw a couple getting engaged. :) Pretty cool experience.


Empire State Building and Central Park with a theme...


Another shot of the view at dusk

Dinner was at Chop Suey in Times Square. We were seated right next to the window with an unobstructed view of the square, where Broadway meets 7th. Hubs was bowled over... it was quite incredible, I've to say. It was like watching TV with dinner, except there were over a dozen giant TVs and they were all flashing the same ads. The food was also phenomenal - I had oyster and bacon lettuce cups with kim chi and ginger chicken, while hubs had a watercress and Asian pear salad and a decadent buttery, eggy lobster entree. Then we finished with dessert, sorbet medley and coffee ice-cream respectively.


Hello!


View from our table

Finally got back to the hotel at about 2am.

The wedding was on Sunday. It was small, intimate, and beautiful. The bride and groom actually had Rock Band and DDR set up for post-reception fun - as if that wasn't enough, we hung out with friends afterwards until the wee hours.

Good trip! More to write later...