[no] sex and the city.

Does anyone know of a diet where you can eat whatever you want whenever you want without consequences? It's an emergency. Because after spending 6 days literally eating my way through the Big Apple, my body is paying for it. But I don't want to have to stop eating, because I consider it one of my best talents. So just get back to me on that one.

Regardless of the circumstantial weight gain (I'm hoping that because it's vacation weight gain it will just go away now that I'm back to real life), my weekend in New York was excellent. I'm talking, like, one of my favorite trips ever.  Wanna see?

what's the first thing you do when you land in NYC during a snow storm and all public transit is backed up? take a $40 cab. at least, that's what i would do. 

 

hotel empire. no, i definitely didn't stand outside this building for 10+ minutes waiting for chuck bass to walk out. why? was someone spying on me?

the highlineeee! i spent my first morning in the city exploring chelsea market. and i'm obsessed.

anything with lights will be photographed. and used for home inspiration.

ok woops same picture twice in a row, awkward. anyways. like i said, i ate my way through the city (including lots of oyster bars, which are apparently trendy?).

beautiful view of the city! after walking down 5th avenue and stopping in at the plaza for cupcakes, we landed in columbus circle for - surprise! - treats.

shake shack and tiffany's - the essence of nyc, amirite??

i met up with my michael friend in front of lincoln center on friday night, after which we went to a foriegn film and walked around soho aaaaaand...

THIS is the only picture i took. of our hummus and bread at a midnight cafe. i'm so disappointed in myself.

aren't they cute?

THE MET omg i could live there.

just wanna live here, that's all.

after the met, nate and i went to the restaurant where valerie works, and it was ritzyyy. it was on the upper east side (hi blair!) and we were treated to sparkling water and a cheesecake tree. what the what i was in heaven.

every morning, n&v would make coffee but they felt bad, i guess, because i didn't drink coffee. so nate started bringing my DC with lemons.

i just decided that if i was a couple, i would want someone following me around taking pictures of us. but because i am, in fact, single (i know, weird!), i will just be the photographer.

our day in brooklyn started with the smorgasbord flea market! we came for the food and...didn't stay long enough to see what they had to offer. cause we were in a hurry to get to grimaldi's pizza, dangit!

see?? they're just so cute

after our trek across the brooklyn bridge, we were all so frozen we couldn't speak. so we went back to the columbus circle lookout to a lounge and got treats (of course) and played shuffle board.

cue family facetime session. poor G was in the hospital the whole weekend my parents were visitng, so nate and i cheered him up (maybe?) sunday night.

introducing nate and valerie to snapchat was one of the highlights of the trip. we spent the whole day sitting next to each other...snapchatting each other.

this was my favorite day - we ate in and explored soho and, of course, did shopping.

samples of our snapchats.

valerie bought a scarf from zara and nate "tried it on" for 6 hours. and after insisting on holding the bags while we waited to be seated for dinner, he was looking extra fabulous.

#bonding. i look waaaay too excited, it's embarrassing.

nate and his ladies.

just being divas.

my special needs brother loves cupcakes as much as i do.

Needless to say, it was an amazing trip. Sure, I may have come back to a buttload of homework, debt, rash on my leg, and the flu (ok that's dramatic it's just a cold BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE STORY just...ok?) but it was totally worth it. 

Bye New York. You were good to me.