Wooo! New York, you big beautiful city. We had a ton of fun but we are glad to be home. Nothing makes you appreciate your home state like going to city that thrives on chaos.
We had quite the debacle as our flight to NYC was canceled last minute, apparently due to the fact that they moved El Chapo through LaGuardia airport that night. So we were rescheduled for the next morning. I’ve never had a flight canceled before so it was quite stressful. Our rerouted flight flew us first class from Detroit to Cleveland. 4 hour layover in Cleveland and then finally flew us to NYC. Layovers are SO freaking lame.
Day One: Since we arrived later in the day, our friend picked us up from the airport and we went back to his place. Dined on some delicious pizza and then went out to Staten Island’s notorious punk/metal bar Mother Pug’s Saloon. Our friend’s friends made us feel hella welcomed and we had a great night with too much booze.
Day Two: We spent the next day recovering poolside at our friend’s wife’s family’s house. (That was a doozy.) We barbecued to celebrate our friend turning the big 3-0.
Day Three: Our friend took us into the city. He wanted to make it as New York as possible so we took the Staten Island Ferry, followed by the subway to our first goal: the Nintendo store. Now, if you don’t know, there are only two in the world. One in New York and one in Tokyo. Mr. C&M was completely overwhelmed and in awe. It was worth the whole trip just to see that.
We then made our way to the famed Trash and Vaudeville. A punk/metal clothing store that we’ve heard of for years and years. It was pretty cool but to be completely honest, not as sweet as we were expecting. We bought some patches and pins and it was fun.
From there, we had the New York taxi experience to get to China Town and our friend’s all time favorite Chinese food restaurant. Wo Hop. We’ve been forever ruined on Chinese food. There is nothing like it in Michigan.
We headed back to Staten Island to pick up our friend’s pregnant wife. We had Italian food and then went to Brooklyn in search of the ultimate metal bar, Duff’s. The rest of the night was spent meeting more awesome New Yorkers, chatting and enjoying good music.
My new favorite pic of Mr. C&M.
Day Three: We went to the infamous Coney Island. It was a gray overcast day but that was refreshing because the previous days had been 90+ and humid as hell. We walked the boardwalk and then went to a pizza joint and had our first Sicilian slice pizza. ZOMG amazing.
Later, we went out to a nice little Mexican restaurant for our friend’s birthday dinner. It was followed up with a Smash Bros. session back at their apartment and then to bed since our flight was early the next day.
We had a great time and will definitely go back to visit our friend again and explore more of the city. The smog attempted to kill me though. I could not breath for most of the trip, to the point I thought that maybe I had picked up a bug. However, upon landing in Michigan and about 30 minutes into our drive home, I could breath out of both nostrils again.
If you have no other reason to go to New York City, just go for the food. We ate like Kings/Queens the whole time.
cupcakesandmachetes 
Wow! Looks and sounds like you all had a wonderful trip. I can’t wait to visit NY. I also can’t wait to show my daughter the Pikachu in the Nintendo store! So fun! 👍😁 Thanks for sharing this.
It was a great time! I would recommend everyone try NYC at least once. 🙂
I love that shot of the city at night!
Thanks!
The food does sound fantastic!
We were really spoiled with the food. Definitely ate too much though lol.
Sounds like you guys had an awesome trip. Well, except for the smog! I’d love to visit NYC myself one day. 🙂
You should! It’s something to experience. Hopefully the smog doesn’t actively try to kill you if you go though. 😛
Sounds awesome! NY is a crazy place – wouldn’t want to live there, but great fun to visit. I’m intrigued by your Detroit/Cleveland adventures – my employer has their hq in Cleveland, so I visit fairly regularly! Unfortunately, Hopkins doesn’t do direct flights to London so I’ve started flying to Detroit & then driving to Cleveland! I prefer that to a connecting flight – unfortunately I have had waaay too many US domestic flights cancelled on me… 😕
I don’t ever want to do a layover/connecting flight ever again if I don’t have to. It was so stressful and the day just felt almost completely wasted. If it wasn’t for Delta being on their A-game with fixing shit, we may have just said screw it and not went at all. I’m glad it worked out though because we had a lot of fun. 🙂
I’m so glad you guys had such a great time! 😀 The pics are awesome.
Thanks! Part of me thinks you would hate NYC just because the amount of people and how chaotic it is but people were also nice and everyone kind of had their shit down so it wasn’t as bad as expected. 🙂
Yeah, places being too people-ish can definitely be a hard pass for me but if I’m in a place where I wanna explore and see cool things I can usually let myself be distracted enough to deal with it. 🙂 Though the traffic usually has me near-panic-attack-mode in big cities, even as a passenger in a cab or something. People zip around and drive like lunatics in those places so I’m pretty much white-knuckling whatever in the car I can hang on to! Haha Glad to hear that the people were nice though! 😀
Oh you would have hated Vest’s driving lol. Since he’s a cop, he literally does what he wants when driving in his precinct. Red light? What red light? Gotta turn around? Pulls a you-ey in a one way!
OMG! O_O
I’m so glad you had a nice time! I must confess, I have an inner cupcake and machete — when I look at your pictures, I both want to rock out and comb/braid everyone’s lovely long hair.
Ahaha! I suck at braiding so that would be helpful. 😛
Thanks for sharing your pictures – it looks like you had an amazing time with good friends and good food.
Lynn 😀
It was my pleasure! We really did have a great time. We’ve just concluded that NYC is kind of a weekend only place. See what you can in 48 hours and then get home and relax. 🙂
I need to get to the Nintendo Store. I’m not that far from NYC either. Well…three hours driving lol.
Worth it!! It was SO cool. 😀
That’s smart! I crammed as much of NYC into a day as possible with the friend I was visiting. It was a blur of awesomeness. I’ll never forget the Nintendo Store.
Great post!!
It’s like you HAVE to do as much in one day as you can, the city is just so big and there is so much to see!