Brent and I have just moved to New York City and are living in downtown Manhattan. We moved in 3 days ago and there is so much to see and do here! We flew into La Guardia airport on Saturday, August 25, 2007 and arrived at our 475 sq ft studio around 7pm. Once we settled in a bit, we decided to go to a local store to get some basic necessities. As we walked, I was overwhelmed by the stench of urine. I felt so dirty and sticky. Then, to top it all off, we approached some dirt laden bum who was crouched over, his pointer finger by his nose, and his face centimeters from his arm. My first thought to this view was "Oh great. I haven't even been here for more than 30 minutes and I am already witnessing someone snorting cocaine." However, as we got closer to the guy I realized that he wasn't doing drugs at all . He was just desperately trying to pull out one of his teeth. I felt a sense of relief until it dawned on me, "he's trying to pull out his tooth! How does that make me feel any better? Boy, am I in for a lot of craziness here."
However, I must say that although the experience my first night here was quite overwhelming, I feel much better now. NYC is much nicer to behold in broad daylight. I am sure that there's much more for me to get use to, but if I can handle witnessing a drunken bum trying to pull out his tooth (while I inhale a fresh breath of urine), I can handle just about anything!
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Great inaugural post Holly! Now you should go down to Central Park and take a carriage ride around the park and enjoy the stinky horse poo smell. :) It's all about taking in the experience!
Brent and Holly-I followed the trail of blogs and found your lovely blog. How are you guys doing?! New York! What a great adventure. I'm excited to be able to keep track of you and I'm sure we (meaning, all the readers in blog-land) will be very entertained with your new big city adventures. From Iowa City to New York City, how would it be? Crazy.
Glad to see you made it ok. It was so cute yesterday Kelsie was sitting on the couch and out of the blue she said "guess who I miss?" I said "who". She said "Anut Holly". Sorry Brent she didn't mention you but that would probably be because you didn't dress up with her and didn't read her stories.
Sweet. . . nothing better than drunkards pulling their own teeth out while stopping to smell the urine!! Sounds like fun! Basically if my family came out to visit you, you could show us some of NYC's finest!
Good luck on your search for the naked cowboy. My sister just moved out that way last month. They stopped in Manhattan to be total tourists. Bought the I heart NY shirts, took some crazy pictures. Naked cowboy AND cowgirl!! Some other HILARIOUS pictures. Come to think of it, you guys would probably get along great!
Enjoy New York!
holly take pics of your house, i want to see where you are living now.
Hello there! I too found your blog on another and tracked you down! Sounds like you're already fully experiencing NYC! You'll quickly become a pro at recognizing the smell of "bum." You'll know what I mean when you smell hobos before you see them.
Go to Serendipity and get yourself a Frrrrrozen Hot Chocolate! Miss you guys!
Hey Holly! We were in New York the week that you moved in ( I think). I felt the same way that I liked NY better in the daytime! We had tons of fun, there is so much to do there, but definitely a stinky city!! We did the NY Party shuttle tour and it took us everywhere, we got to get off the bus and see different things, pretty cool. If you like burgers you have to hit up The Good Burger, its great!! Oh yeah our favorite was patsy's pizza too! Everyone told us to go to Serendipity's too but we thought it was pretty overrated. We payed $18.00 for two ice cream sundaes... YIKES! But its fun for the experience for sure!! We hope you guys have so much fun up there!! If we are ever in the neighborhood we will stop by!
Katie
First of all, I laughed out loud when I read the title of your blog! I totally forgot you told me about that singing naked cowboy. And second, wow, the bum snorting/pulling his tooth out. Wow! That's all I can say and that probably won't be the worst of what you'll see. Can't wait to check out your blog on a regular basis. Hope you're enjoying it! PS - I want to see if you can get a picture of your entire apartment in one frame...
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