New Years Eve in NYC

so my dad came into town to kick it with us for new years and see the city and hang out. we had a blast! we did so much and took a bazilion and a half pictures that i want to share but there's so much so i'm breaking it down day by day { my brilliant husband's suggestion - i'm better with small events, events being of the singular kind }

welcome to new years eve! the first thing i learned: don't do times square.

"no REAL new yorker does times square"

which i took with a grain of salt because i like being a tourist in this city sometimes. but then i started hearing stories like you have to basically camp out in times square all day if you want to see the ball drop and you can't leave and you can't bring alcohol in. the straw that broke it down for me though was that people are crammed in shoulder to shoulder and you have to pea in the street. no thank you. the veteran's come in adult diapers. that didn't sound like fun to us. { you'll just have to keep reading to find out what we really did }

so my dad got into penn station and i brought him back to brooklyn. we got some news about my grandmother { see: previous post } and we headed back to manhattan to drink a toast to her. on our way to the subway we made a side trip to be paparazzi at Barnes and Noble - there's the cutest guy working there who's name is mitch kelly and a photo of him is worth top dollar.
we took the subway to washington sqare park {it was snowing and beautiful} and made a slow walk towards union square {there's lots of squares here, and they're all good} we walked past NYU and the the forbes building and ended up at the coffee shop for happy hour. i love the coffee shop, it's full of pretty people, models, and model wannabees are tending bar and doing catwalks to the tables and loud music is blasting it's fun. so we bellied up to the bar and ordered this drink that's cousin of the mohito, it's some brazilian liquor with muddled lime and sugar {it's amazing}


the picture i've includes of the coffee shop is the inside of the bar but i stole it from the internet and in reality it's a lot darker on the inside.


this was taken a block away from the coffee shop and not stolen off the internet






so we left the coffee shop and got noise makers from a street stand and headed back home

we met up with mitch and ate dinner and drank champaign and proseco and then went to prospect park for the most amazing fireworks i've ever seen!