On our last day in New York, we had to leave our hotel around 2pm to head to the airport, so we stayed close to our Midtown hotel on Park Avenue.  We started our day with New York bagels at Daniel’s Bagels, toasted bagels with mounds of whipped cream cheese.  When we’d had our fill, we walked up to 5th Avenue and did a little bit of final shopping, then wandered around past the New York Public Library once more, then down near the Empire State Building to pick up a few little souvenirs.

We ended our day with a late lunch at Dos Caminos, then headed back to our hotel to grab our stuff and grab a cab to the airport.  New York was one of those trips for me that I didn’t know what to expect, I wasn’t sure I’d like the chaos of such a huge and famous city, but I ended up falling in love with it.  Of course, some areas were not my cup of tea, but others, I found myself drawn to, like the West Village, Dumbo in Brooklyn, the Flat Iron area (which will all be ending up on my {Favorite Places} list soon)…. these places for me, made a real impact and I’m so glad I got to experience New York the way we did, the way we love exploring a new place, walking around, feeling part of it.

I found myself falling in love with all sorts of things about New York and can’t wait to make another trip back there in the future.