Girls' weekend in the big apple
And how I didn't hate feeling like a tourist in my own city
Hi from Paris!
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Tomorrow we return to NYC and regular life. We’ve been gone for two weeks now and can’t wait to snuggle with our dogs and get back to our routine. I’m so excited to share our trip reports with you all once I’m back! This has been a great trip and it will be great to share the tips and tricks that we learned along the way.
For now, we’ll enjoy our last day in Paris and get ready for our business class flight (all on points!) tomorrow. On the way here, we all slept through the overnight flight. I’m kind of excited to be awake on the way home and to eat, drink and lounge around watching movies after weeks of non stop running around in Europe. We are exhausted!
(That’s us happy but tired in Paris last night having drinks sans kids)
The Manhattan Edit
In March of 2020, I was in a new group chat with a few moms that became a lifeline as the world started collapsing around us. Even though I was stuck inside with my husband and kids, there were days I swear I talked to my group chat “Looking for Alex” more than anyone else. My kids still grill me on the origins of the name of our group chat and I can’t even actually remember exactly - but it’s one of those jokes that I KNOW was funny and we have kept the name years later.
I laughed a lot with those moms — and cried as we were all blocks away from each other hearing the sirens from the local hospital blaring 24 hours a day, the eerie quietness of empty Brooklyn streets and the pots and pans clanging at 7pm to celebrate the healthcare workers.
We were tired and scared and all became such close friends.
During these last 5 years, there have been puppies, and babies, new schools, sickness, health, despair, happiness and a lot of what would you do if…?
And now with two of us still in Brooklyn, and one in Massachusetts, after years of saying we’d do it, we finally schedule a girls’ staycation weekend in the city (sans kids) — and it was the best 🖤
On any given day in NYC there are hundreds of thousands of things to do, 27,000 restaurants to pick from and 700 hotels to stay at. Here’s the NYC edit, Manhattan edition — here’s all the things we picked (and how we used points!).