Our first day in the New York wasn’t so much of a lucky day. It was that kind of weather I much hate during travelling that actually got to us. Adding to that, my outfit didn’t really fit the weather. I’m telling you now, wearing a long skirt during rainy day is actually a complete fallacy. Enough is enough. Lesson learnt, for me. However.. bad weather, dressing-fallacy or whatever bad situation you name it can never make strong reasons not to enjoy holiday. So I fast got back to happy-holiday mood (ok, I come clean, my mood recovered only after I grabbed a glass of strawberry milk frappuccino, tee hee).

Our hotel was located in about the centre of NYC, between the downtown and uptown, east and west. It was exactly in the Madison Avenue, East 31st Street which took only short walking distance to the nearest Subway station, and only one block away from the 5th avenue. So the location helped us big time.

This first day we didn’t do much of sightseeing. We picked places where could be safe from rain, wise enough, eh? To the shopping centres, we went! This time we headed to the Soho area and 5th avenue. I love New York for the ease in map-reading. I was a map-illiterate before, but in New York everything was just so easy and even some dumb like me could head to the right direction. No hassle at all! Here I’m proudly saying that we didn’t get lost as often as we used to! haha. Isn’t that great? Absolutely yes.

New york is a big city. Just as any big cities, New York City is very bustling and bursting, packed with people. Skyscrapers and shopping centres are all over. Traffic jam is quite an issue, so is crime, but I like it that way eventhough living there might be another story that I can’t tell yet. It felt amazing that I got to see with these naked eyes what I usually saw in television or magazines. More importantly, I was over the moon that I got to feel the ambiance which for the first few moments felt so surreal to me. haha.

I’m coming with the second day story. Keep an eye ; )