N.Y.C. Day 2

Friday was another very cold but very gorgeous New York day.














We started off by finding our way to the Lincoln Center to pick up our opera tickets for that night.















It happened to be Fashion Week while we were there too.

































The Metropolitan Opera House




























Juilliard














We had planned to find the Manhattan Temple, and then we just accidentally stumbled upon it because it's right outside Lincoln Center. It's so cool how it just blends right in, but it still stands out so much.






































Then we headed back to Times Square for a black and white cookie from Roxy (recommended by my bestie Jessa) and to pick up our New York Passes (which I personally highly recommend if you visit)














If you know the Seinfeld reference regarding this cookie you are amazing.














Then we headed to Rockefeller Center

The ice skating rink

































The biggest most beautiful Anthropologie store I have ever seen














I'm in love.















Home of one of our favorite TV Shows














And then we did Top of the Rock

The view from the bottom...



















The view from the top...

Central Park is seriously HUGE.


































































The New Year's Eve ball drop



















Next stop was the Museum of Modern Art




























We saw some of the classics including Warhol, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Lichtenstein


































On our way back to Rockefeller Center we stopped off for a quick lunch...classic New York hot dog. It was delicious. Maybe it was just because it's the first hot dog I've had since I've been pregnant, cause it actually looks disgusting in this picture.















Next was the NBC Studio Tour














We are pumped.




























Gregory Peck's employment card from when he was a tour guide at NBC. Everyone's gotta start somewhere.














We weren't allowed to take pictures during the tour. There aren't that many sets to see since so many shows are filmed in L.A., but we did get to see the SNL set, and saw Kristen Wiig and Russell Brand rehearsing for the next night's show, our only celeb sighting during our trip! We also got to see the Today show set and the NBC Nightly News sets.


On our way home we saw Radio City Music Hall and Carnegie Hall but didn't have time to tour either of them.



















Our subway train change took us through Grand Central Station, which is absolutely gorgeous.

































We even found a Magnolia Cupcake bakery inside Grand Central. This is the only treat that I knew I had to have while in NYC. But we were in a rush to get ready for the opera and the line was too long

But we did have time to stop for dinner at the iconic Carnegie Deli. We had a hard time even finding time to eat meals, so we figured we had to make each one something delicious, and this place came highly recommended by my mama.

Austin had never had pastrami, so what better place to try it than at the Carnegie Deli? About 3/4 of that was left over.




















Then it was back to our city home to get ready for the Met. Uptown to the hotel and back downtown to Lincoln Center.

The opera house all lit up















It was opening night of Don Pasquale, so it was sold out and completely packed. It's unbelievable how many people the house holds. They are super strict about taking pictures, so this is the only decent shot of the inside that I got. The building is so beautiful and the actual theater is incredible. They have these screens in front of each seat that interprets the words for you so that you can actually understand the story. I'm glad we decided to see a comedy because we were exhausted after such a long day, and it would have been hard to stay awake for a romance or tragedy.




















After the opera we headed home at around 11:30 pm. Apparently after 11 the normal uptown trains stop running because of construction. We managed to get ourselves onto an A train that dropped us at the right street, but about 5 avenues away from our hotel. So we had to walk. At midnight. By Central Park. On the West side. I guess everyone needs a scary New York mugging adventure right? Luckily we made it home alive, and we've never been so happy to be back in such a tiny little room.


Stay tuned for day 3 and even MORE pictures...if you can handle it!