DAY 1: New York City

This is Brooklyn Bridge Park at night. Although I did not take this exact picture I pretty much saw this same view except with some snow thrown in.
Last night Tim was extremely kind to pick me up at JFK airport and take me all of the way to Katey's apartment. I immediately put on some of Wendy's warm city clothes, rocking some high heel wedge boots, and strutted towards Amir's gyro place with Katey, Julia (Katey's housemate), and Tim. We walked through a beautifully lit walkway straight through the Columbia Campus to get there then after a gyro I hopped on the subway (all by myself) and met Alice.

Alice and Becca and I headed down to Brooklyn where we checked out the Brooklyn Bridge Park pictured above, went to an amazing coffee shop in DUMBO for hot chocolate, and then went to the Galapagos Art Space for Foreplays. Galapagos was AMAZING. Maybe one of the coolest theatre venues I have been in to date. Yeah. I knew last night that I would not be able to describe it very accurately so it looks like this:

There is like one huge pool of water with walkways and these little islands with cabaret-style seating that you sit at with your drink. The company did a great job of really using the space to it's full extent jumping down from the second floor balcony and walking around in the water in rain boots. All in all, some very fun creative plays with lots of people around my age. It was one of those things that made me feel like I could totally get behind moving to New York. Very fun, good people.

I took the subway back to Katey's place and walked home in the gently falling snow. Something kinda beautiful about all of the fresh snow at midnight in the city. And something about taking on the city alone even for one small night that made me feel super independent.