no sleep till brooklyn

nyc, part 1

so bryan has been to new york a lot. like, a lot, a lot. like, he even spent a chunk of time this year going every single week. in fact, his trips were so consistent that he was recognized as a regular by the tuesday night manhattan temple crew.

anyhoo, before the year of super awesome transcontinental flights was over, he wanted to take me with for a quick trip and hit up the city like full-blown tourists.

and that, my friends, is exactly what we did. 

so without further ado, and in a totally randomly selected, non-consecutive order (split between two blog posts), here's a look see at some of what we did: 

crossed the booklyn bridge, of course.

took in the MoMA:

and the new york city public library:

and the MET:

30 rock:

the empire state building:

and st. patrick's cathedral (where we saw a wedding!):

besides sightseeing, there was the food. i had made a list of what i wanted to eat while we were in new york city, and per my usual, it ended up being mostly treats. we didn't get to everything (and we photographed even less than what we got to because, eating), but we managed to try cereal milk ice cream and crack pie at milk bar:

cookies from levain bakery (the peanut butter chocolate--not pictured--is AMAZING!):

and my first ever shackburger:

(i'm so sorry, in-n-out! i thought we were forever, but the shackburger was...better. in order to be absolutely sure, though, more testing of both burgers is most definitely and deliciously needed. stay tuned.)

and of course, we had to head up one night to see bryan's friends at the manhattan temple: