New York City

I wasn’t able to spend the majority of my spring break in New York City like I wanted. However the days that I did spend there were amazing. Despite the fact that I spend more than I intend I still think the city is worth it. The variety of foods, activities and people give the city such a worldly environment. I met up with my friends in the city and spent the whole day. We first went to the Central Park zoo and the newly opened Children’s Tisch petting zoo. The sea lion show during our zoo visit was mediocre and the llamas, pigs, sheeps and cows looked depressed at the petting zoo. I saw children running around the zoo with expressions of awe and excitement. Watching their bodies plastered against the glass windows. I guess the excitement fades as you get older because I remember my zoo experience being the exact same when I was ten years old. After the zoo we got hungry and looked for the closest street vendor. Of all the times I’m at the city, that was the first time I ate food from a street vendor. I felt like a true New Yorker stuffing my juicy, jumbo hot dog down my throat. I knew how disgusting the hot dog was and how unsanitary street vendors are, but I didn’t care. Then we decided to go ice skating at Bryant Park, but we realized that the rink was closed when we got there so we shopped and browsed in Soho. As we were walking the streets of Little Italy, waiters were desperately trying to get us into their restaurants. At one point, two waiters from different restaurants were talking to us at the same time about their food and cheap prices. We finally picked a restaurant that offered us free soda as bribery and I ordered linguine with white wine sauce and clams. It was delicious and it just hit the spot after a day of walking in the city. Instead of eating desert at the restaurant we traveled to union square to dine at Max Brenner which is a fancy chocolate and desert restaurant. Max Brenner serves syringes of pure melted chocolate, heavy duty milkshakes, chocolate crepes, cakes and fondues. I ordered a slice of carrot cake with a layer of white chocolate frosting and it came with a small side dish of mangoes and oranges with aluminum shaker filled with melted chocolate. My friend ordered a banana chocolate that looked just a scrumptious. Ending with Max Brenner’s was perfect to my long day in the city.