I felt like crap yesterday after barely 4 hours of sleep during the night, so didn’t get much done all day, I was passed out. So no blogging. But I’m feeling awesome today, so here is our fun Sunday, yay!
We left the apartment and Thor (who got picked up by our neighbor shortly after), took an uber to train station and was on Manhattan around 10 am. We walked straight over to Rockefeller Center. There was long line to the ice rink but didn’t seem too bad (or so we thought). I have been talking about ice skating at Rockefeller since I came to NYC, since it’s on every list of things to do there. Every year we just kept saying “nah, we do it a different time, it’s too much people here” but now we really wanted to just get it done. Such a cold day and we had to wait 1.5 hour in line. The rink has it open in blocks of 1.5 hours (they need to fix the ice in between) and we got in 20 minutes before they would close it off for half an hour. They allow you to wait during this time and go on again when they open, but we were both cold and hungry so we ended up paying almost $100 to skate for twenty minutes. Oh well.
It was fun. I have not been ice skating since I was about 8-10 years old. I tried to remember if I went to a rink with school when I was like 14-15, it’s possible but I don’t think I was actually on the ice then. It’s amazing to me how the muscles and brain remembers how to do it. And what I mean by that is that I could totally remember that I was making 8’s and skating backwards, doing side steps, trying to do tricks, going really fast and being able to stop when I was a kid. Non of that was possible on Sunday of course. The ice was wobbly (since it was in the end of the session) and you have to be careful and respectful to the other people. So you go pretty slow and try not to fall. Jim’s right blade seemed to make him fall on the outside, he struggled a little, but what to expect, they probably don’t take care of the skates that well there. I thought it was fun though, even if it was just for 20 min. Now we can check that off the NYC bucket list 
After skating, we walked back to the Grand Central area and ate at the bar we’ve been to many times before, Perfect Pint. I ordered the shrimp salad as always. After lunch, we took the subway down to 23rd. We wanted to check off another thing on the must-do-in-nyc, the Rolf bar. They have crazy decorations in there. We’ve never been cause the line is always insane. It said on google that it wasn’t too busy so we thought we could give it a try. The line was loooong! So, nope. Another thing that tourists like to go to is Gramercy Tavern, an upscale fancy pants place. Not sure why that’s a huge thing but apparently it is. Luckily we got seats in the bar which was what we wanted. Jim wanted to order a beer for $22 (rated the best beer in the world, he has only tried it once before, it’s really hard to find) but unfortunately they didn’t have it which we expected so he had to pick something else. I ordered a hot chocolate with a giant marshmello to keep warm.
We continued and walked to Flatiron and Madison Sq Park and from there we decided to go for a walk all the way up to Grand Central. At GC I quickly ran into the Swatch store to change battery on my watch. Free lifetime battery change, can’t beat that. We then walked over to 44th and 3rd to the Wheeltapper, cause they have a fireplace. They didn’t have it on, bummer. I was so cold so I ordered tea. We sat there for awhile until we decided to take the train home. We picked up Thor, ordered Chinese takeout and watched the Bears game.
We had a lovely (but cold) day on Manhattan. Lots of people but not too crazy like it usually is around Christmas (I don’t understand why people come visit NYC in the winter). I’m happy we could check off from our NYC list. We don’t have that much left but we have to get it done this spring.
