new york, day two

our second day in new york started out the best way possible - walking across the brooklyn bridge. we lucked out on weather, and it was such a beautiful day, making the views 1000x more perfect.

once we were off the bridge, kendrick grabbed a hotdog from a nearby stand and then we stopped to see a pretty impressive group of boys doing a street show. we should have known better than to watch for too long, because kendrick ended up getting pulled into the show. i literally almost died laughing. basically, they had five people stand close to each other, and then one guy backflipped over all of them. i sure am happy that he knew what he was doing, as i would have been pretty bummed out to go home with a decapitated husband.

we wandered around this side of manhattan for a bit, before taking an uber over to navy pier for the ferry ride around the statue of liberty. once in line for the ferry, i grabbed a pretzel from a stand, which ended up being almost as tasteless as my bagel from the other morning. what is going on new york?!

 once on the ferry, we took a seat on the bottom of the boat (a lot less crowded), and it still provided some pretty great views on manhatten. we decided not to get off on ellis island, as it was way too crowded with tourists and selfie sticks and not to mention the ferry gets you super close to lady liberty, so your pictures turn out just as good (i love how my pictures of the statue turned out!)

when our ferry ride was over, we hopped on the nearest subway and made our way over to greenwich, or "the village", which is basically the hipster part of town. greenwich may have been my favorite part of new york, as the entire town is chill and lined with old brick apartments. while in the village, we were able to find the 'friends' apartment building that is shown in the opening scene of each episode, so that was pretty thrilling for this 'friends' fanatic!

next up in the village was chelsea market, which is an underground shopping place full of cool shops and great places to eat. we purchased some fruity pebbled flavored mini donuts from a small bakery, which may have been the most expensive yet most delicious donuts of our entire life.