Did you read Parts One, Two and Three already?  Read those first….not to boss you around or anything….

It was Saturday morning and we were excited to have Keith get there.

I think he figured out pretty quickly that he was on the Kays train and would now be forced to conquer the Subway also.  On a side note, the flowers are pretty impressive in NYC.

First stop-lunch in Murray Hill.  Guacamole heaven at El Parador Cafe.  Other than the guac and margs, it didn’t really live up to its hype (sorry, Chris G).  But, give me a marg and some chips and I’m golden.

Walking off the said guacamole on the Brooklyn Bridge….

Happy campers.

It was packed.  Wow–lots of people are on that bridge all of the time.  Those bikers take no prisoners.  They’ll run your *ss over!

It didn’t stop me from getting them out of our photos haha.  Could you move over a bit please, thank you.  Sorry, I needed a good pic, sue me.

The boys starting to lose their minds a bit.

Love this one.

I’ll stand here too then.

Makes me think of Fashion Week.  Maybe that should be a trip with the girls one year.  Who’s in??

A great way to see the Statue of Liberty…

Kinda looks like Florida haha.

The Lady and Us.

Birds.

The last neighborhood I wanted to check out was TriBeCa!

It just happened to be time for Happy Hour.

Cool sports bar.

We got off the Subway at Times Square

and needed some munchies….

I told the boys to get dolled up because we were going to hang out with the cool kids that night.  Meatpacking District here we come!!!

Great little bars, restaurants, even an ice skating rink at The Standard Hotel.

Cannot wait to either stay there or at the Gansevoort next time.  Since it was a “no reservation” trip, we didn’t mind waiting and people-watching until we could be sat for dinner (at 11pm).  It was pretty funny as we left dinner (2am) and watched the huge lines of young-ins that were just then heading out for the night.  Put this old fogies to bed.

I swear you guys, you’re almost done with photos.

This is my fav pic of the trip =)

Our last night in NYC did not disappoint.  We were so happy that we had saved that area for when Keith was there with us.

Superbowl Sunday meant we were saying goodbye to NYC.  Loved the Waldorf!

We were told we could not leave NYC without going to Momofuko Milk Bar.  So we did and CW fell in love with their cookies.  So much so that we got halfway down the street and he made us go back to get more for the road.

Ready for some grub, The Buger Joint at Le Parker Meredien (thanks Erin) was our last stop.

Reminds me of The Weiner Circle in Chicago.  You may be yelled at if you don’t know what you want.  Love it.

As we headed to the airport, we both laughed as we saw this sign.  We had said over and over how quiet the city was from our hotel.  No wonder.

Thank you to everyone who gave us tons of suggestions.  I already have a list of the places we’re hitting on our next trip.  I was blown away by how much we were able to do without spending any money: The Letterman Show, 9/11, Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry (Statue of Liberty) and I’m going to throw the subways in there because at $2 or so each way, that’s a steal in comparison to what a taxi would be!

It was the best last-minute trip EVA!!!

Hello Day Two (did you read Day One)?  I’ll try to keep you on track.

I had skillfully studied the subway maps since we got to the hotel and was so-far impressed with how easy NYC seemed to be to get around by subway.  Let’s hit it!

Yep, those machines are pretty much like the ones in Chi-town.

We headed down to the Financial District to see the 9/11 Memorial.  Wow, when you come up from underground, you’re literally staring at the construction and buildings.  It’s pretty somber.  Lots of people were stopped on the streets just looking and taking pics.  Even more crazy was looking up and seeing how close the planes and flight patterns are still flying.

Not sure if there is always a huge police presence, but there were a TON of police standing on the corners everywhere we walked.  Such an odd feeling being there.

We hadn’t gotten the tix ahead of time like I knew people said to do, but the NYC gods were still on our side (like they will continue to be on this entire trip) and they ended up giving us stand-by tickets to get right in.  Must have been good timing because when we were leaving, the line had wrapped around with hundreds of people.

We walked around the fountains and read the names.  Kind of hard to explain that.

Looking at the two fountains and the fact that they are in the shape and sizes of the towers definitely takes your breath away.  We saw some people taking pics of themselves with the names and construction as the background and I just thought it was wrong.  No need.

We heard that the tall building that’s still being built is only 1/2 of the height as the towers were.  It was surreal.

Lots of workers around.

Cannot imagine what happened there that day.

They have maps of where the names are.

There’s also a memorial shop with relics, gifts, donation opporunities, etc.

We headed down to the World Trade Center Firehouse.

There were firemen standing around answering questions.  Wonder if they do that everyday?  We were there on a random Thursday morning.

After that emotional morning, we hopped back on the Subway to SoHo.  YAY!!!  It’s the area I was the most excited to explore.  We stumbled onto a fab tapas restaurant and had the best lunch.

Isn’t it cute?

I used my Yelp app to look up reviews and maps everywhere we went.  Great reviews, we’re in.

Bacon wrapped dates.  Yummer.  Sitting there at lunch we decided to try to get tickets to a concert of a guy we love-who was playing in NYC that night.  Literally–we got the last 2 tickets available.  Again, gracias to the NY Gods.

I could totally live in SoHo.  Like today =)

Walking around and boom-I about had a heart attack.  You know how I love my Kardashians.

People were sort of staring at me taking this pic, but, THIS is what I imagined NYC neighborhoods to be like…the fenced playgrounds on street corners.  They’re real.

A stop at CVS for beverages…CW looked like a true New Yorker.  Not to mention his adorbs gloves he bought.

Still ready to tackle the town, we got ready for dinner in the West Village.  Another awesome recommendation of the restaurant Extra Virgin (thanks Andrea).  Loved seeing how each neighborhood and area had a different feel to it.  Getting off the subway and trying to get our barings, an odd looking man (that’s putting it nicely) walked up to me and right in my face, said “P*NIS”!!!  Along with us, the guy standing next to us on his phone burst out laughing.  I couldn’t help but say, “Now THAT is what I’ve been waiting for from New York City”.  Haha.  Thanks to that dude for making my night.  The flavor of NY.

Loved the atmosphere.

The venue rocked!!!  This was our view.  Super close for the last two tix.

But, of course I needed a better picture, so I just plopped myself in front and got a good one.  I’m sure people were annoyed, but oh well.

The theme of our trip…use the good ol Subway.  We felt really safe everywhere we went-obviously-since we even took it at night.

I was thrilled that there were still lights up in the city.

Oh–hilarious.  Can you see what that is?  It’s the nutso people who are literally camping out waiting for Saturday Night Live tickets….for days.

Wowza–that was Day 2…..told ya.