nyc | day 1: wrong turns, missed streets yet still the best day ever
what we had planned for the day:
wake up early. take hotel shuttle to airport. take air train to jamaica station. get on the metro. get off at location of next hotel. check in. stuff our faces with food. explore.
here’s what actually happened:
yes, we woke up and got out of the hotel. took the hotel shuttle to airport. took the air train to jamaica station. realized we took the wrong train and needed to at howard beach. got back and waited for another moment for train. finally got onto the metro. spent a good half hour on it. realized we missed our stop by two stops. great. perfect. decided to get off before it was too late. ended up dragging our big suitcases through time square. after 10 minutes realized we were walking in the wrong direction. finally gave up and gave into a taxi. checked in. 3 hours later and we were finally off to stuff our faces with new york food and goodness.
no worries right? upward and onwards. in the 8+ hours we had, we were able to fit in lots of shopping, walking the high line, eating our way through chelsea market, visiting the FIT museum, seeing the flat iron, walking in some more circles and finishing our night in eataly (best ever!)