Traveling is so frickin stressful. Packing all of my clothing was just about the death of me. I was limited to two checked bags ($25 and $35 respectively - $100 if I wanted to check a third...but seriously??), and I had to make sure not to go ONE pound overweight, otherwise the airline would charge $100 per overweight bag. If you do the math, if I had checked 3 bags and gone overweight on all of them, I would have had to pay $460. Um, no. Good thing the airlines didn't charge me for the .5lbs I went over on both of the bags that I checked.
Not only did I have to make sure my bags were the appropriate weight, though, I also had to decide what clothes were most important for me to have as soon as I got to New York, since the rest of my clothes would be shipped to me. I did a really good job at packing enough clothes to probably last me about 2 months, but failed to pack coats, sweatshirts, and the majority of my shoes (so sad). Luckily I was greeted by this beautiful weather as soon as I landed:
Looks like spring, right? Nope. January 7th, everyone. I know, I was just as surprised as you are. Not complaining though. If only the rest of the winter would stay like that. It actually has been pretty mild here within my first week. Today was probably the coldest day yet, and that's mostly because of the wind chill.
Anyways, I celebrated my first night in NYC by meeting up the lovely Mia at her hotel at the Soho Grand. Beautiful hotel with even more beautiful employees...note to self: go back, if not to get drinks, then at least to walk in and out of the front door as gorgeous men stand in the front to greet the visitors.
It was great catching up with Mia. We bought some delicious drinks...somewhat of a foreshadow of what's to come:
Adios money. This is going to hurt.
Regardless, though, I could not have asked for a better arrival into the City.
xo
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