My Honest First 72 Hours in New York City (A Lot Happened)

Guys, I'm officially in New York. I get a closer look at him and I realize that this man is no ordinary man. I'm gonna head to the hotel or not. Oh my gosh, I just stepped in a huge puddle. It's raining. I'm gonna head to the Airbnb right now and I will check in with you guys when I do. He done beaten me. I'm It's a shared Airbnb so the common areas are public starting but each bedroom is private. Bedroom number two. There are two bathrooms, so one bathroom's here, one bathroom's here. to There's a kitchen that's free use for anyone, speak and there's just a living room lounge area. All right, so here is the room I'm staying in. We've got a bunk bed situation going on here. now. It's got a TV and a little mini couch. For five nights, this place was about $800, so split between two is $400 each, which is not bad at all in my opinion, especially in or around New York City. The first thing I did was hit up places to eat that were on my recommendations list. Then, I had my slice of pizza in the park and people watched. One of the huge reasons I came to New York was for the museums, so I hit up MoMA first. Starry Night is my favorite painting of all time, and there was no way that I was leaving New York without seeing it. Fun fact, the bright star in the center left side of the painting is actually the planet Venus. This is what I bought from MoMA. It's so cute! Once I get home, this is going straight onto my fridge. All right guys, it is October 30th and I'm going out dressed as Ada Wong from Resident Evil. This is my Halloween costume this year. I found this red dress from a second-hand store and then I tailored it so that it's fitted. I tried to make it as fitted as possible. I bought these two harnesses off of Amazon. So this is a DIY Ada Wong cosplay. This is the bottom harness. It has a thigh She has a thigh strap also, which is part of her outfit, and this is for the top half. This one's a little more straightforward and easy to put on. Just like that. This is the full fit minus the boots and that's it. I'm gonna go about my day like this. People are all dressed up all over the city today and tomorrow. It's Halloween weekend. I'm also planning to go to the Met like this so uh without wasting time let's go. And just like that we are on to our second museum which today would be the Met. But I have a big jacket on. The bus took really long. The line was so long, but I'm about three blocks from my house. My feet are killing me. I had to buy comfort insoles at Walgreens to try to put them in these heels to see if it would help, and it provided a little bit of relief, but it still is burning. I'm really excited to go home. It's about 11 30 right now, so. just the bus waiting alone probably took like 30 minutes. yeah i am so tired. i didn't go clubbing or try any bars or anything. i just watched the parade and walked around a lot. i'm low-key considering just taking my shoes off and walking home in socks because it hurts that bad. but actually now that i think about it, i don't want to step in a mystery liquid or something so i'll just bear it for the next two blocks. that is my airbnb right there. I made it home. Oh, actually, my bad. It's this one right here. I mean, guys, from the inside of my bunk bed and my blanket forts that I built around it because my friend snores. So I built like a blanket sound barrier and it actually does work. When I pack for trips and stuff, I always take a book, but I never end up reading it. I'm just taking these books on walks at this point. Alright, quick update. I'm sitting on a bench just chilling. I'm going to find something to eat for dinner in a second, but I was walking along the river in Brooklyn and it was so beautiful because it was exactly sunset and I even took out my laptop to do some editing, which is probably the most aesthetic place that I've ever edited anything. Watching the sunset hit the buildings in Manhattan and reflect off of them. So beautiful. But yeah, now I'm just sitting here. In this kind of off the beaten path area that I found, I'm gonna find dinner because I'm pretty hungry. The food scene here has been so amazing. So far for all the places that I've tried, I've either heard about or gotten recommendations from my friends, or I've just walked into a random place and I have not been disappointed yet. It's getting a little chilly, so I'm trying to keep my neck covered. I think especially when I'm low on sleep, my immune system is weaker, so I'm more prone to catching colds. And I feel like a tiny bit of a scratch in my throat, so I'm really trying to prevent it to the best of my ability. Um, fingers crossed on that. But other than sometimes it being windy, the weather here so far has been amazing. The next day, I hit another bucket list item, which was to bike across the Brooklyn Bridge. All the electronic city bikes were taken, so I was putting pedal to the metal on mine. Then, on the last day of the Airbnb, it was time to pack up and head the weather made it a good day for heading to Staten Island via ferry. My water bottle fell. I am on Staten Island right now. I'm waiting for my friend to do some shopping in Old Navy, in a nice little courtyard of a mall. Ferry to Staten Island is completely free, which is... Probably the first free thing that I have gotten to do in New York so far, but it's it's very cool that it's free. When I got out of the subway exit in front of the ferry terminal, there were a lot of men in vests saying like, no suitcases allowed on the ferry, you can't take a suitcase on the ferry. I just went to the ferry terminal anyways. I went inside and I asked a security guard there that had a dog to smell people's belongings or whatever, so I knew he was official. And I asked him, if i could take my suitcase in and he was like yeah no problem if you ever find yourself wondering if you're allowed to take suitcases on the ferry to Staten Island the answer is yes i'm back in Arizona now but i want to give a couple quick closing thoughts on my time in New York not to be cliche but it really does feel like a city where anything or almost anything feels possible just in the short time that i was there i met so many cool people and I have this crazy story. So I was in a cafe and I was ordering coffee and this man walks in and he's wearing sunglasses and a hat indoors, which isn't super out of the ordinary for New York, but I get a closer look at him and I realized that this man is no ordinary man. For context, I was a really big fan of his in high school. That's how I was able to recognize him. That man was Harry Styles. I recognized Harry Styles walking into the cafe. I didn't say anything, I just hoped that he felt my good vibes. Overall it was such a fun trip. I jam-packed so many things into every day. Would I ever consider moving there? I don't know. I think it would be great for a lot of reasons, for meeting people, for career opportunities, for my social life for sure, but at the same time the city can be overstimulating and it is pretty expensive. 10 out of 10 would go back. You guys live in New York. You are so blessed, and I'm jealous. My next vlog will also be a New York vlog, by the way. It'll be me staying in an interesting hotel. It's a fun little side adventure vlog, so look out for that. And I'll see you guys next week.