A day on Manhattan with an old friend

I had such wonderful day on Tuesday. I came in to Manhattan around 2pm, took the subway down to Fulton St and walked over to Ground Zero. And there stood Monika, my friend from Czech Republic that I haven’t seen in 6.5 years. Wiihee, what a long hug we gave each other ♡

We walked over to Brookfield, bought coffee and walked down to my old neighborhood (Battery Park). After a little stroll there, we took the subway up to 59th and walked over to Central Park. We spent a few hours in CP, catching up all the years we have been apart.

Oh, I have really missed her. Both of us felt that it hasn’t been that long since we last saw each other. It’s a very safe friendship. I know she will be there and I will be there for her as well. For those of you who doesn’t know, Monika was my roommate when we lived in Portugal and she also lived in NYC for three months in the fall of 2011 plus three months in the spring 2012. We don’t write each other very often, but we also don’t have to:)

Closer to 7pm the sky shifted to dark gray and lightnings where coming all around us. I freaked out and started to walk faster and close to buildings to get to Grand Central. Apparently it had been a rain storm everywhere else except where we had been walking, weird. My train back to Connecticut was leaving at 8:01, so we said “see ya later” on GC. We don’t like to say goodbye, cause we know we will cross paths again, so it feels like a see ya later every time we go apart. 

So nice to see her! She’s always so full of life and sees things with excited eyes just like I do ♥

Birthday fun; Flying Trapeze

Hello! I’m currently watching my country play themselves in the World Cup 😀 (Cause Sweden and Switzerland is the same country, right?) 

So, yesterday was insanely fun! I was so nervous before I got there. We were five students so we got to do a bit more (usually they have 10 people). But, it was extremely hot, around 35°c and humid, so we finished a little before the two hours we were signed up for.
We had a short instruction and then went straight to it. I was the third one going up. The first student was a gymnast who had been there last week so she went first to do a different thing than us. Then it was a little girl, maybe 9 years old. And then me. Going up the ladder was probably the scariest part of the whole thing, hahah. So much fun to fly. It took me two rounds to get a real good hang of it, but ones I understood, it all made sense and it was double the fun. I was the first one to get the catching part and I’m actually a bit proud of myself that I managed to do this. I watched my videos this morning that I had taken of my rounds, and I can see the things that needs to be improved:)
It was soooo much fun!! I loved it! A perfect birthday challenge!

After my trapeze class, I walked all sweaty to Tribeca to get a coffee. I looked like I had taken a shower and felt pretty stinky. The only place I could find was FIKA. After charging my phone and cooling off for a little bit, I continued to walk down and over to Battery Park. I put a small blanket out and sat there for about an hour. I went back to Grand Central and managed to run to an earlier train that I had planned. I was back home about 4:30pm, took Thor out and back home again Jim had arrived and laid out a bunch of yummy Swedish treats:) I showered and then we went to have dinner at the Bedford bar. I ordered the burger and omg, that was awesome!

Pretty awesome birthday I have to say:) 

Rockefeller during Christmas

I still haven’t got to see the Disney Castle on Saks Fifth Avenue light up, we haven’t stayed until it got dark. It’s still pretty though. Snow White and the seven dwarfs is celebrating 80 years so Saks made a tribute for that. Very cute! 
The last time Jim and I went to Rockefeller Center, it was so packed with people you could barely walk and parts of the center was blocked off. This time we could actually walk around. Still a lot of people but not nearly as crowded as last time. It’s very pretty there and if you happen to be in NYC during Christmas you should definitely go there. But go early in the morning or really really late at night and in the middle of the week, preferably not right around Christmas 🙂