NYC is the best city ever :)

For anyone thinking of moving to NYC, here is some more great stuff about living here!

Before I begin, if any lurkers or anyone has questions about moving to NYC, feel free to post them and I'd love to answer. That really was my original purpose in making this blog.

Ok, so to add on some more reasons that this is an awesome place to live...

So on Friday I went out in my neighborhood, The Lower East Side, and got delicious Pad Thai at Eatpisode, which is a bring your own beer/wine place -- it' s so nice just to leave your apmt and stroll over a few blocks, and drink if you feel like it, and not have to worry about driving home.

They have a corking fee, but it's still much cheapter than buying drinks at most restaurants. Then we went to a relaxed lounge, called Libation, down the street that had comfy lounge-type couches. We had some tasty drinks -- a White Russian, a cosmo, and much more. My bf got a martini and something on the rocks. Then later in the night people started dancing which was quite convenient, as we just had to stand up to join in.

Then the next day we took the scooter to Chinatown and had some delish soup dumplings -- there is actually a tasty soup inside each delicious dumpling. You put it onto your spoon and poke a hole into the dumpling, to let the soup run onto your spoon. Also had a "pancake" type thing that of course wasn't sweet, but was tasty fried-ish carbs with some veggies in it...light and tasty. And some chicken.

On the way back we stopped in Soho to buy some clothes. It was really packed and sunny out -- much sunnier this summer.

Later that night we went to a cookie monster pub crawl, so we made sure to swing by a street fair close to Bleeker St. to get some "T" shirts.

We got there pretty late and missed most of the crawl, but did have a great time ordering $4 drinks at Asian Bar and trying tons of their appetizers and food. Ramen type noodles, california rolls, a crab cake, and much more. And tasty drinks including Mojitos and Cappirenas (sp?).

Also, we went to a ping pong lounge called Spin City where you can play overpriced games of ping pong in a lounge setting with drinks. We went to a party there so that was fun.

We also went to the grocery store on the scooter, filled up a duffle bag with breakfast foods, went home, and made pancakes, eggs, bacon, potatoes, iced coffee, with mangoes and peaches. tasty!

There is so much to do in NYC. So anyone reading this who is thinking of moving here, now you have even more reasons to.

Note about the scooter: so my bf just got a vespa scooter, and it's great for riding around. On the weekends, the subway can take up to 30 minutes each way depending on how frequently it's running -- there are also delays often as many trains have construction work done on them on weekends, making it tough to get to brunch on time without leaving an hour early to make sure you're there on time! (This means a lot of the time you end up taking cabs on the weekend, which is great if you have lots of $10 or $20 bills lying around your apartment that you are dying to use up. So a scooter is great for avoiding that. However, you do have to be careful if it's really hot outside or if it's raining, a cab is still a better choice. And with the MTA about to raise subway rates again...doesn't hurt to take the scooter sometimes!