After I picked Laura up from JFK we came straight into Manhattan and headed to the Village. Laura had her first taste of New York City pizza and then we proceeded to walk around Washington Square Park. I took her to one of my favorite bars, McSorely's. It's very "old New York" and you only have two drink choices, light or dark beer. I just love it. I'm showing Laura how to do a "waterfall" in the picture below. An impressed stranger snapped this photo. I asked him to send it to me and he did!
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We were tourists for the rest of the weekend. We had bagels for breakfast, rode the Staten Island Ferry, saw the Statue of Liberty, checked out Wall Street, perused through the Chelsea Market, walked the High Line, and navigated through Times Square. We found a beer garden in Battery Park and Laura could not resist having
her first true American cheese burger and hot dog in over a year. It
was a huge moment for her! We rounded out the weekend with a night out
on the town, brunch, a
Yankees baseball game, and a trek to Harlem.
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Laura wanted to meet some NYC Malians and find a restaurant that served Malian cuisine. After some quick research online we headed up to Harlem. It was so much fun to watch her speak Bambara and to see her blow every one's mind. "Who is this little white girl in Harlem who knows how to speak our language?!" Everyone we met was so hospitable and inviting and the entire experience was incredible. We had rice with peanut sauce and Laura showed me how Malians eat with there hands. It's a specific technique where you ball up the rice and then eat it off the tip of your fingers. NYC Malians do not do this. Everyone that saw us laughed at us and thought it was really cute...
It was an exhausting weekend, but one of the most eventful and most fun I've had yet. Thank you, Laura. I miss you already! I love it when friends come to the city. So who's coming to visit next?!
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