Good morning to day number two! My mother and I stayed with Dr. JoAnn’s timeshare so we got suckled into a “timeshare” meeting to get some free sightseeing passes. It was her idea! They told us it’ll be only an hour but my mom and I were separated and it took almost 3 hours! But we both stayed strong and said no!
They did feed us some continental breakfast but it wasn’t that good. I didn’t even want to take a picture of it. They gave each person a plate of scrambled eggs, bacon, and country potatoes.
At the end, the presentation was very compelling and it may seem tempted to someone who has a lot of money and a bunch of family and friends to share it with. Otherwise, I’m still saving for my house fund! 🙂
Afterwards, we rushed to Battery Park to catch our ferry ride to the Statue Of Liberty island. I learned a few fun facts: the Statue was made and given by France to represent its union with America, it turned into the green color due to the copper oxidizing with exposure to long O2, and America designed the pedestal and is so strong, it’s almost impossible to tip the Statue over.
I stayed outside during the ferry ride for fear of catching motion sickness. It is the worst! If I can avoid it, I’ll do anything!!! The thing that helps me is so stay outside, be cold and breathe fresh air and stare off into the horizon.
I made it without getting sick! The wind was strong though and blew my hat off a few times. Good thing I haven’t lost it yet! 🙂
Helloooo! My mommy finally gets to see the Statue of Liberty in person! And that man up there is Dr. Han, insisting to photobomb.
Dr. JoAnn is such a sweetheart. She bought me a silver plated teaspoon to add to my soon-to-be growing tea collection. She says it’ll be cute to collect a teaspoon from everywhere I travel. It’s small, light, and easy.
Time to leave this island!
And by the time we leave, it’s already 4pm and the only thing I ate was still only that crappy breakfast. Ugh. Hungry Cookie is not happy!
But first.. let’s just walk a bit from Battery Park to the 911 Memorial and World Trade Center.. pending on pics from that since it’s in Dr. JoAnn’s phone.
First Halal Cart I see, I shall dive in. My mom got me a lamb gyro to try.
We asked the guy to cut it in half so that my mother and I can share. It was decent! This cart didn’t have the rotating chunk of lamb to slice off of directly. I couldn’t find one in the area and I like those better. I think next time I’m going to try the lamb shawarma wrap.
Only after a bit of walking, we saw this small nut cart. All the girls immediately stopped and eyed the cart. My mom bought 3 bags of freshly roasted honey peanuts for just $5!
They wrapped them into three little cute bags. The bags are extra thick and meant to prevent the oils from seeping through.
Oh the peanuts are still warm too! I’ve never had them fresh and warm before. They were good and lightly sweet from the honey.
Hehe trying to model the peanut.
We finally used our sightseeing pass on the hop-on and hop-off bus. They gave us earbuds to listen to the automated tour guide as we made each stop. The bus pass lasts for 72 hour so we’re going to use it as our main mode of transportation.
We made a stop at the Amish Market to buy some picnic stuff for Saturday’s picnic at Central Park: cheese, bread crackers, sausage.
They have a crazy selection of cheese!!!!!
We’re going to try this one…..
..and my mom made a confession.. she wanted more ramen.. so we went back to Urban Space from yesterday to try a different ramen for Ippudo’s Kuro-Obi-Obi.
Aka-Oni “Red Belt.” Creamy chicken soup ramen with springy zuzutto noodles, a well balanced spicy miso paste, kikurage mushrooms, and sliced marinated pork chasu. This is almost like yesterday’s tonkotsu ramen except it’s less garlicky and more spicy from the miso paste. Even though this ramen was no less better than yesterday’s, I like it more because it has the spicy kick! That delicious creamy chicken broth is definitely one of a savory kind!
Then my mom and I hopped right next door (still in Urbanspace), to get two pizzas to eat with the kids back at the hotel. We’ve been eying them make pizzas fresh from the dough to the brick oven all last night while eating ramen. I couldn’t stop thinking about their pizza since then! It just looked so good as they bring out each pizza.
Roberto’s Pizza. Sounds like their main branch is located in Brooklyn.
Look at them go!
Margherita pizza – tomato, mozzarella, basil. In honor of missing my boyfriend, I ordered his favorite pizza. Ahh I wish he were here 🙂 but he’s climbing right now so I’m jealous of that!
It was good! Not as good as his Nolita pizza, but still very good. I think margherita is best the Italian style haha. But otherwise, delicious typical New York thin crust pizza. They use fresh ingredients. Served hot and boiling from that oven.
Cheesus Christ – mozzarella, taleggio, parmigiano, black pepper, cream. Andddd that is a pun! Thanks to my boyfriend, I know what puns are and can recognize them if they’re THAT easy. This pizza is super cheesy with that nice little black pepper kick at the end. The adults enjoyed it. The kids did not.
And I guess that’s all the food cookie gets to eat today since she starved from 11am until 5pm! Hopefully, I get to eat more tomorrow because that’s what I came to New York for!
