These photographs via escape to new york gave me a sudden overwhelming urge to be somewhere city and winter-ey. Now I am seriously day dreaming about a trip. Christmas in New York? Or if we want to dream big, my (30th!) birthday in Paris? But really. Christmas in New York isn't so crazy....
Christmas in New York! Christmas in New York!
ReplyDeleteif we REALLY want to dream big, why not both? unless your birthday falls on christmas...
ReplyDeleteIt usually doesn't snow in NYC until January/February, but Christmas is kind of magical here. Also kind of tourist hell and ridiculously expensive, but can be magical. Come to think of it, the first time I ever visited was on Christmas, and I didn't mind the tourist mania because I was so wowed.
ReplyDeleteLand of succulents vs. land of snow. I can't decide.
ReplyDeletehahahaha.. as an ex-nyc-er (as of this past may/june) I was so excited to get out of there, and now, goodness gracious, NOW, I am having pangs of longing. (maybe because summer in NYC is like living in a furnace. so. hot. no. escape.)
ReplyDeleteChristmas in NYC is tourist-crowd-hell, but so very incredible. I'd do actual Christmas in Paris, but with a stopover in NYC beforehand? Get out by the 20th or so ... although I spent my first Christmas in NYC there, by myself, and the city was so very oddly desolate, quiet, and very lovely, on the 24th and 25th. It's quite surreal.
Paris would be totally rad. And their pastries are to die for.
(*acutally, just avoid Rockefeller center at all costs and you'd probably be fine!)
ah, the weeks leading up to christmas are magical. the first snow fall, the decorations everywhere, me skipping around town giddy with holiday spirit. i make cookies, listen to christmas tunes, and fall in love with new york all over again (and stay far far away from rock center, times square, and the worst offender of all: herald square). then suddenly, like a slap in the face, it's january 2. the decorations, now mangy, become the bane of my existence. the once beautiful snow is now black with scum and takes forever to melt, and everything is cold and bare and gray and depressing. and then i start falling in love with the idea of escaping to california once and for all.
ReplyDeleteGod. Two seconds later the snow was yellow and brown. It's nice while it falls in the city, it's horrific afterwards.
ReplyDeleteChristmas in New York: the windows are nice, it's crowded, it almost never snows. But... it is nice. Just not like you expect.
30th birthday in Paris, NOW we're talking. Though... December might be a good time to travel?
nyc winter time = my fav
ReplyDeletecan't wait for our xmas trip this year big family xmas in nyc, my home. But paris isn't so bad either
france is full of french people; i'm over it. NYC, on the other hand.
ReplyDeletebig city love for SURE. i'm from chicago and meg's super right...yellow and brown just about immediately after. still beautiful though.
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely killing my desire to stay at home and lock the door this Christmas.
ReplyDeletexmas in new york is RAD. and it's only crowded if you go to the stupid tourist places that you wouldn't want to go to anyway.
ReplyDeletea lot of actual new yorkers leave town, which means the good restaurants and stuff are LESS CROWDED.