I can’t even begin to describe how amazing Christmas is in New York. The magic was palpable. Christmas morning we woke up, opened presents, had breakfast then hopped on a plane to New York…flyin first class! It was me, my aunt and uncle, my sister and my cousin, and we were the only people in first class, it was great. We got a gourmet meal, legroom and all the alcohol we wanted.
We arrived in New York at 7 their time so we went to our hotel, which was a highlight, but more about that later, we got changed and went out for Christmas dinner. After dinner we went to the tree in Rockefeller!! It was sooooo pretty, I felt like such a dork because I was taking pictures like a mad woman and had this massive smile on my face. Not to mention we could see half of the tree from the window of our 48th floor hotel room! The Palace hotel where we stayed is also where they shoot a lot of the scenes from gossip girl. One of the people that worked there fulfilled my 14-year-old fantasies and took my reluctant family and me on a tour of where they film! I found a clip on youtube that shows the front of the hotel so nice and Christmasy!
So the next day we got up early and shopped all day, as it was boxing day. We went to Chinatown and bought hoards of fake purses in the sketchiest joints ever. My favourite was this little Asian woman that came up to us and asked if we wanted to see the showroom they had, so we followed her for a couple blocks, it to an alley way, past a fist market, down some stairs, and first she had to walkie talkie the guy and make sure the coast was clear before she let us in. It was disguised as a children clothing store and then you walk in there and the lady opens this secret door. Fuck, it was the funniest shit ever, but they had the nicest knockoffs I’ve ever seen. Then my uncle opened the door to leave and the little Asian woman yelled so loudly and slammed the door and then yelled that she needed to radio out before we could leave because the police might see. Periodically I’d burst out in fits of laughter while in the showroom because it was unbelievably sketchy.
Then we went out for dinner and over to the tree once again. Then the next day, our last one, me and my sister tried to hit all the tourist sites, we took the subway everywhere, which was wicked, and we saw grand central, the met, central park, and ground zero. We missed the empire state building, but there was just not enough time in the day. We went to see the Lion King that night which was SO amazing, holy. Then we went out to eat and then out to time square to look around. New York is beyond amazing… I can’t even describe it.
Then off to Mexico where we family bonded for 7 straight days. Lots of alcohol flowed, and we engaged in far to many full contact sports. Sadly, bad weather, ant bites and Mexican flu were also a part of it, but that didn’t stop us from continually partying. And that my friends was how I spend my Christmas holiday’s.
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