New Cities, New Faces

This past weekend, I traveled to two famous "new" cities: New Orleans, LA, and New York, NY! The pretext for this trip was my wonderful friend, Faison's bachelorette party. She had the most amazing idea to book a private trapeze class with Trapeze School New York, located in Chelsea. Because I have never been to New Orleans before (travesty, I know.), Faison and I went down a day before to wander around. I had a Shark Attack at Tropical Isle, and boy, it was delicious. Grenadine makes me a very happy camper, and I still have the shark as a keepsake of sorts, haha. Unfortunately, I broke the cardinal rule of not mixing liquors and woke up with a horrid hangover. I pulled myself out of bed though so that we could walk the French Quarter and take in the sights. It's a beautifully historic city and I'm so glad that I got to go!!









We met Meg, one of the other bridesmaids, on the flight to La Guardia, and arrived in NYC just in time to go to a fabulous restaurant in Little Italy, Novella. If you ever go, get the stuffed artichokes as an appetizer--out of this world, I promise. We also ate at Cafeteria in Chelsea and, let me tell you, it was like I was living in Food Porn Daily for two hours. The food not only looked absolutely divine, it was hearty and filling and tasted amazing.







Trapezing was exhilarating and freeing and so much fun. I honestly did not anticipate enjoying it as much as I did. I've always been terrified of being upside down without safety--it's why I never learned how to do handsprings or layouts or anything that removed a barrier (like my hands) from between me and the floor. But I didn't even think about that when I was doing this! It was like, when they said "jump," I just....jumped! Our bodies ACHED afterwards. Even on my most brutal NTC workouts, my abs and arms have not burned like they did the day after trapezing. Faison and I were cutting up on the flight and couldn't even handle it because we would laugh and then groan and hold our stomachs. Faison kept telling me to stop making her laugh because it hurt too much. I can't WAIT to go again to the DC branch while I'm in law school. Faison has pictures and a video on her blog, so check them out there!

Faison and I spent an extra day toodling around the city, visiting heaven on earth at Jacques Torres Chocolate. I have got to find out what they did for my drink, which was a white hot chocolate with chai spice. It was absolutely phenomenal, as were the two little pieces of chocolate that I nommed on while chatting with Fais. She, of course, did her blogger thing, taking beautiful and artsy photos while we ate. The Rock is so pretty at night right now because they still have the lights on the trees--it made for great picture-taking opportunities!







As fun as the trip was, it sadly lasted but a few days. Now I'm back in the land of Jackson, MS, back on that daily work grind and trying to make money so I won't have to live on ramen and kraft next year. So all y'all better remember to be polite to your waitresses and counter servers!