A month or so ago, my husband and I talked about renting a cabin for the Memorial Day weekend. We wanted a quiet place in a forest, just me and my husband enjoying each others company and leaving our phones at home. Instead, we ended up booking a hotel room on Manhattan, haha. On Thursday last week, Jim booked a room at a hotel that I’ve always thought looked cool, The Dream Downtown. Hahahha. Instead of quiet time in the woods, we stayed in one of the busiest cities in the world, a city we had just moved away from 😀
We left Thor with the dog sitter and took the train into the city. It takes about 50 minutes with the express train into Grand Central. This was actually my first time going back into the city since we moved here. It felt like I had been gone for way longer than only two months. J had the opposite feeling. When we arrived at the hotel in Chelsea, they upgraded us to a bigger room. So far, all hotel rooms I’ve stayed at in NYC has been pretty small. We now had a King room and it was pretty tiny if you compare to anywhere else outside New York. But, it was a pretty cool room and it’s a cool looking hotel. Interesting details. We were kinda hungry so we walked over to Artichoke pizza. We bought one slice each to-go but brought it only a few steps over to their outdoor seating. Others were waiting for table service but we enjoyed our to-go pizza, haha. I thought for sure they were gonna ask us to leave, but they didn’t.
Back at the hotel, after I had put some makeup on and changed into heels, we went to check everything out at the hotel. Then we got a free drink in their Mexican restaurant downstairs and then we went to their rooftop bar, PHD, where we also got free drinks. Jim has been to this bar before but this was my first time. I thought it was really nice. Great view and relaxed. After this we ended up at a few more places. A thai restaurant (where we actually also got free drinks haha), a club that I’ve been to several times before that has an indoor pool and a rooftop, the Tao restaurant that is pretty cool looking (but apparently the food there isn’t that great), and then we somehow ended up at the thai place again.
We must be really old or something, hahah, cause we were back at the hotel and passed out before 11pm. In the morning we slept til basically we had to check out at noon. It was so nice to wake up whenever we wanted instead of getting a billion kisses in the face at 6am 🙂 (we love our dog, but sometimes its nice to sleep in).
My husband and I have so much fun together! I love doing random weird stuff with him. We haven’t laughed this much in a while. My husband is very spontaneous and I try to be the same. It’s more fun that way. And it’s fun to be a “tourist” in the city for a day:) We had a fun little mini trip to Manhattan.
We took the subway up to Chinatown by lunchtime. We were hungry and decided that we should eat first. We walked around a bit and then just walked in to a random Chinese place, XO Restaurant on Hester St. Very cheap food there and everything was great! Seemed to be a popular place too. I felt like I was on vacation, haha, part because I was the only blonde in there. 
