We did a LOT of walking today. We walked from Union Square to Greenwich Village and to SOHO. We checked out a few shops and bought a couple of new dresses. And some gifts for our friends. We had lunch in a small neighbourhood restaurant in SOHO near Anna Sui and Apple store. After lunch, we walked around SOHO and slowly headed back to the hotel because we planned to be at Empire State building by 6:30pm or so to watch sunset.
After we dropped off the stuff at the hotel, we still had some time before the Empire State building. I really wanted to check out Balenciaga NYC. So, Chris figured how to get there and then we walked there - it is in the Chelsea/Meatpacking district - that walk was longer than I expected! The store is in the warehouse area and the display set up is like an art gallery. After a lot of thinking... (Chris laughs) I bought a Anthracite 2008 Weekender! Kim (SA) was nice just like everyone else said on the Purseblog forum. :-)
After shopping, we took a cab and headed to the Empire State building. Diana met us there in the lobby and took us up - bypassed the 1-2 hour line up like a VIP! We were on the top of NYC within 10 minutes! (Thanks again Diana!!!) We spent almost two hours or so on the top - watching the sunset and enjoying the night view of the city.
We took the subway "home" and had dinner at Olive (inside the W Hotel). We picked Chef's menu which you just tell them if you are allergic to anything at all. They brought us good surprises. :-) We finished dinner late - around 11pm or something like that. It was a very good meal and we were very glad that we were just downstairs from our room.
