My favourite place

Hello my beautiful people!! 

Well it's been another great week full of great times. 

Friday night I went to the city with my friend who lives just down the block from me. We had a good night, this was our view.. Empire State Building everyone!

Saturday I met up with a new Aupair in Union Square. Which is officially my favourite spot to chill and people watch (that's not weird..is it?). Anyway it's just such a cool area! There's a square (obviously) where people sit and there is always something going on, like people dancing in the square and people entertaining. There's also great thrift stores around the area (Reminds me of Takaka.. Lol not really!). So we sat in the square and there was a bubble party (I know, random!) people actually came and blew bubbles hilerious!! In New York there's a parade for everything (literally). 

You can't see the bubbles, but this is how big the crowd was just casually blowing bubbles! 

Then we watched these cool cats do tricks and jumps on their longboards (pretty extreme, don't try it at home kids).

Then OMG!! I headed to one of the most amazing dance classes I have ever taken! To be honest I was really nervous and wasn't actually going to go because I hadn't danced in a while, but then I thought how can I miss a great opportunity to be taught by one of the most amazing dancers in the world, who has choreographed for Beyoncé, Chris Brown, lil mama (remember G-slide? he choreographed it. Such a good song!) etc. Of course I HAD to go! 

It was a 2 hour class and some people nearly fainted because it was sooo hot and was a very intense dance class. But I LOVED it!! 

Here's Hollywood and I, very sweaty after dance class (yuk)!! 

His t-shirt was soaking wet of sweat that's how hot it was!! 

Sunday I went to Church and caught up with a friend that I hadn't seen in a while. We had lunch and then I walked down to union square (favourite place), well.. actually took the subway cause that would of been a long walk! I walked around and went into Sephora (a big makeup place) and just stared at all the different makeup.. Yep that's what I do! I would love to be the person that owns that store (oh sigh). 

I then was sitting in the square watching these two girls dance, then noticed that they were actually filming and they needed a crowd. So I, of course got in there (wid all dat swag, well I looked like a hippie, but that will do). So we had to act excited and was dancing etc was fun, until a homeless guy (oh bless him), decides to dance in front of the camera (ruined it!). 

I decided to go check out this other church which was cool, met some new people. 

After that I headed to Grand Central and walked the whole from 14th street to 42nd street. With my music in my ears, I was just loving life, as you can see here.. 

I just had to take a selfie, it had to be done! 

Anyway in better news.. This piece of Chocolate (looks gross)

is the last piece of New Zealand chocolate and I'm going to eat it right NOW, so need some more ASAP (in the mail would be good, preferably Old Gold 70%) wow just ate it and so satisfied!! 

So lessons we learned throughout this blog..

1. Don't let opportunities pass you by, just go for it! 

2. Make new friends that like you

3. People watch (it's not creepy) 

4.Give people chocolate that live away (ahem...me) 

Hope you've enjoyed. Peace out!

#kiaoranewyork 

Krystal xo

Island of Coney

Woop woop CONEY ISLAND!!

Yes people that's right! on a very sunny Saturday my friends and I, (these beautiful ones)

Decided to hop on the Subway and travel an hour from the city, which only costed $2.50 (cheap as chips ow) and got to our destination CONEY ISLAND!! 

There's like little carnival theme parks, shops, Nathan's Hot Dogs (place where you buy hot dogs and all that bad food) and also the beach! 

Oh the beach was so nice! We stayed there the whole time and lay in the sand, did some people watching (as you do) and tanned. Well I didn't take my togs (that was a mistake) so I tanned in my bra.. Yep.. Awkward. 

After the Island of Coney we went into Brooklyn, and WOW that was a mission because there were roadworks so the train wasn't stopping where we needed to get off. So we asked for directions and this guy was going to where we needed to go, so we followed this man (it was like 4D google maps, so easy). Got to the place after taking like 3 trains, then walked round circles for a bit (good one google maps) and finally made it to this restaurant where we met up with another friend to spend our last night with Him as He is off to Italy to nanny for abit (so cool!). 

Anyway peace out! 

#kiaoranewyork

Krystal xo

 

 

Chelkanator and I hit up NYC!

 Last week I had a visit from the Chelkanator. She came all the way from New Zealand for a week and I got to show her round my area, where I showed her the cool coffee shop named slave to the grind (seriously such a cool name) and the local mall. It was awesome hanging with another New Zealander who understands what 'togs' 'heaps' 'boom' and a whole lot of other New Zealand words that people not from NZ do not understand. People try to tell me that it is wrong English well.. no it's not, we just use different words but it means the same thing because we swag! 

Anyway so I showed my hood to Chelk.

Then Friday night I came to her hood where she was staying. We went out to dinner to a really cool Thai place where we sat outside (pritty much on the footpath). Our table was abit wobbly which was annoying, so after we ate our green bean thingys (can't remember the special name but it was something like Gagame or agame?) chelk decided to put a whole bunch under one of the legs of the table so it would not wobble (she is a smart one), probably very disgusting but it did the trick! 

After dinner we went and saw Xmen. Now I fully recommend this movie it was awesome!! 

On Saturday we slept for ages but Definately could of slept more, the bed was just so comfy! We finally got up and went and met Chelks friends for brunch which was great cause one of them was from Blenheim of all places (little place in New Zealand). 

We then left them and went to Central Park and got a frozen yogaurt (yum!). I said goodbye to Chelk and I went back home and went and watched Maleficent (another movie I highly recommend you seeing). 

Oh yeah! Sunday I went to a Yankees Game with my friends. Let me just say Baseball is quite boring (was 3hours long, nearly died.. Not really) but we were way up the top of the stadium, so the game was a little spec and we couldn't see the big screen (cheap seats). We decided to move seats like close to the game finishing and it was a much better view. But the experiance was great! The Yankees stadium was really cool! 

You have to have a pretzel while watching Baseball, just Gold! 

So there you go! It's been very warm lately so I've been swimming a lot, thank goodness for pools! 

#kiaoranewyork 

Krystal xo