not so anti-climactic

I am guest posting for Courtney over at Sweet Tooth Sweet Life today! It’s all about unplugging – go read it and take a peak around! You’ll love Courtney (if you don’t already!).

I remember a few weeks ago when I went to Six Flags with my bestie how excited we were to get there. We hadn’t been to the amusement park to ride roller coasters since we were in high school and couldn’t wait to jump on the first one. Well, we rode them… and got through, and while it was fun, it surely didn’t live up to our expectations.

I feel like I somehow hype up certain places or situations in my head only to find out (in Gabriela’s words) they are anti-climactic.

I surely don’t think that anything in New York has been anti-climactic as my tour guide has described! I have loved seeing all of the sights so far, even if my poor feet are taking quite the toll from walking around the past two days.

This morning, after I leisurely rolled out of my air mattress, we had quite the day planned! It was filled with working out at Gabriela’s gym, breakfast, and then we were off on our day trip to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

I was pleasantly surprised at how cost efficient the trip over was – $13 to see both of those sights seems fairly cheap to me. I couldn’t complain, unlike the folks who were forced to leave since the credit card machines weren’t working. That would put a damper on anyone’s day.

The line to get onto the ferry was pretty long – we waited about 45 minutes to get onto the boat. In the line, Gabriela and I talked about how we didn’t see what they meant by it being super hot and humid today – the breeze off the river was quite pleasant!

 
On the way over to see the Statue of Liberty, it was really difficult to get any sort of good shot of the city behind us since the gobs of people surrounding us all were trying to do the same. However, once we got to our destination, that was a different story.

 
Please excuse my sunglasses – I seriously feel like I look like a bug with them on. Note to self, buy new ones!

And this was about the time where we ever regretted saying it “didn’t feel hot outside” – because holy Hades, it was hot.  

I wish I knew these people, but I don’t – I do know they were like the cutest couple in the world. I also kind of wish they someday stumble across this picture.

Being at Ellis Island was surreal. You forget just what people had to endure to get into the United States as immigrants in the early 1900’s. It was much larger than I had anticipated, and I really enjoyed looking through the exhibits.

One of my favorite displays was right at the entrance of the main hall – there were displays of different baskets and trunks families came over from their homelands with. I was fascinated by the artifacts!

 
I also found some of my parents’ ancestors last names on the wall, but I have to confirm if they are actually our family or not!

Since Gabriela and I worked so hard all day, we figured we earned quite the treat for a late lunch somewhere that is never anti-climactic.

Now that I have been to 3 different Whole Foods in the city of Manhattan, I figure it is only right for Gabriela to bring me to a fourth one tomorrow. I filled up my salad bar box with all kind of goodies, but the item that stuck out to the both of us was the roasted cauliflower – it was so delicious. I only wish I would have seen the hummus because my salad would have been topped with quite a bit of it!

 
Whole Foods never tastes as good without a Kombucha to wash it all down!

We opted to walk back from Whole Foods even though our feet were hurting us quite a bit and the heat was pretty intense.

You better believe it wasn’t anti-climactic when we felt that air conditioning when we walked inside either!

Question: Have you ever had an anti-climactic experience? Keep it PG folks.

Tagged as: ellis island, kombucha, new york city, statue of liberty, Whole Foods, whole foods salad bar