{"id":772,"date":"2009-07-14T10:12:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T17:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-07-15T12:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T19:57:47","slug":"nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2009\/07\/14\/nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had such a fantastic time in New York!\u00a0 We were both braced for the worst weather &#8211; humid, muggy and occationally rainy &#8211; but we lucked out and had incredible weather the entire time we were there.\u00a0 Sunny with a nice breeze for most of our visit.\u00a0 There were showers and a thunderstorm Saturday night, but we were safetly tucked away in bed by the time the rain hit and it cleared by the time we woke up.\u00a0 We couldn&#8217;t have asked for a better trip.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived late Friday and met up with my friend K and her boyfriend, who generously treated us to\u00a0dinner\u00a0at Barboa, a yummy Vietnamese restaurant on the Upper Westside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday we took a 7 hour walking tour through New York.\u00a0 It was exhausting but the best possible way to see the City, especially since it was T&#8217;s first visit.\u00a0 (Note gorgeous weather in picture of fountain at Central Park.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-773\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2242-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cimg2242\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2242-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2242-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2242.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After our tour, we met up with friends for a lovely dinner before going to see Avenue Q, which was hilarious.\u00a0 T thinks it may have been the best thing we did in NY.\u00a0 Since I was responsible for choosing the musical, and had to force my\u00a0poor friend M\u00a0into seeing\u00a0one she&#8217;d already seen,\u00a0I&#8217;m so relieved he liked it!<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, T and\u00a0I met up with\u00a0friends for brunch before heading into New Brunswick for a wedding.\u00a0 It was the first Jewish wedding\u00a0either of us\u00a0had been to and was incredible.\u00a0 The service was beautiful, the food was amazing, and\u00a0the decor was outstanding (as evidenced by the centerpiece pictured below).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-780\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2313-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"cimg2313\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2313-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2313-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2313.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, we had time to go to the top of Rockefeller Center for\u00a0gorgeous views of the City before catching our flight home (on Virgin America, which is the only airline I ever want to fly on again).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2358-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cimg2358\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2358-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2358-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2358.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-776\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2359-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cimg2359\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2359-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2359-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2359.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-774\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2364-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cimg2364\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/files\/2009\/07\/cimg2364-300x225.jpg 300w, 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