New York City May 2013 Trip, Part 1

I’m back!!!! Did you miss me? I sure missed all of you. John and I arrived in New York City at LaGuardia airport on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Joshua was at the airport to greet us and to help us get back to his apartment. After Joshua finally was able to communicate to the cab driver which subway entrance he wanted him to take us to and he managed to stop the cab driver from leaving John behind. We arrived at the appropriate subway entrance unharmed and all in one piece. Let me tell you this, our cab driver wasn’t at all helpful with the bags and he barely waited long enough for us to get them and ourselves out of the car before racing away. It’s a wonder the driver found his way because John kept trying to make small talk with him and of course the driver didn’t understand much of anything that John was trying to say to him. What a ride!

The subway was quite interesting to John and me, to tell you the truth we are easily amused.

We were the perfect tourists looking up and pointing at everything that we came to that interested us, which was everything actually. John loves to just walk leisurely and Joshua has learned to walk very fast and then there was me who is just not used to walking much at all. I was surprised that Joshua was so patient with us.

Anyway Joshua asked us before we left to get on the Subway on Thursday where we wanted to go. I told him that I wanted to try and go to Purl Soho, Tinsel Trading Company, and Central Park. John said he wanted to go to an Oriental store that Joshua had told him about. (John loves Chinese things, like robes and shirts with dragons on them) So the first place we came to was Purl Soho (I loved that white window that was sitting in front of the store) but unfortunately they weren’t open yet so we moved on to the Oriental store.

Right away John found a jacket with a dragon on it.

Then Joshua and John found some wind-up toys and I couldn’t help but

post these photos.

They make me laugh every time I look at them.

Unfortunately John never did purchase anything in the Oriental store. I’m not for sure why he didn’t because we went back for the second time on Friday. I guess he thought that we would have enough time to go a third time but we ran out of time.

Then we headed back to Purl Soho and I got to go in and pet all the lovely yarn and look at the beautiful fabric.

I’m not for sure what posesses John to always want to put something on his head, but here he is with a knitted octopus on it. I’m sure the ladies at Purl were very glad that we left. I didn’t purchase anything because we had limited room in our suitcase and I didn’t feel the need to buy fabric for $19.99 per yard. But I loved that I was able to visit after seeing their adds in all the magazines.

Then it was time to eat lunch and Joshua had told us about this pizza place in Soho that he really liked. So we ordered a piece of pizza each and enjoyed eating it in a little park across the street from the restaurant and

behind the street carnival run by the same people that Joshua worked for.

As we were walking along we came upon a building that had graffiti all over it.

Lots of people were taking pictures of it including us.

This is what John and I looked like most of the time.

We loved looking at all the tall buildings.

I really enjoyed just spending time with Joshua and the time that he allowed me to sit on this little bench to rest my aching legs. 🙂

Of course Joshua wanted us to stand in front of the graffiti to have our picture taken.

I loved finding this repurposed store called Miss Hoe and could hardly wait to get inside.

Once inside I started taking photos of some things and

as I took this photo the lady working in the store told me that there were no photos allowed. I explained to her that I wasn’t going to copy anything that she did, but she was adamant and I didn’t feel like hanging around to look any further so we left.

Then we came upon another piece of graffiti after Joshua’s friend Jeremy met up with us.

Supposedly the name Lady appears quite a few places and they have taken their pictures in front of this word quite a few times. And they couldn’t pass up the opportunity to have their pictures taken with this one too. As soon as I find out the story behind the Lady graffiti I’ll make sure I let you all know. To be continued, stay tuned for Part Two…….