NYC Trip 2021 - Day 3 - Flippers

So before we headed to NY, Doug had been reading about some amazing Japanese-style pancakes that were served at a restaurant in Soho. We didn't have to head to "Hamilton" until the afternoon, so we woke up a bit early to head over to "Flippers" for some breakfast...

 

It's located near One World Trade Center...

We arrived at the restaurant when it opened, so we got a seat right away...

View of outside from our table...

We ordered a bunch of food and decided to split it between the three of us so we could try everything. The food was served as it was ready, so we received the eggs and bacon before the chicken and waffles and souffle' pancakes. The pancakes were huge and so fluffy! All the juice was fresh squeezed and delicious. Because it started getting more crowded as we sat there and because the juice was fresh squeezed, it took quite a while to get refills on our juice. But overall, we had a really nice breakfast - and the food was SO yummy.

Here are some food pics...

I highly recommend! I do suggest getting there right when it opens - especially on a weekend!

NYC Trip 2021 - Day 2 - Radio City/Rockefeller/5th Avenue

We were really tired after our already full day at the museum, but we also knew we had a very limited time in NYC. So, we rested a couple of hours after the museum to get a second wind and took a walk to soak in some of the city.

 

We headed toward Rockefeller Center...

 

 We walked past Radio City Music Hall and the Avenue of the Americas Fountain to get there - it's so pretty at (almost) Christmastime...

We arrived at Rockefeller Center...

 

The tree was there, but it was hidden behind a sign and scaffolding.

(We did see the tree lit when we visited NYC in 2019.)

It was pretty crowded around there anyway.

St. Patrick's Cathedral...

We then decided to walk down 5th avenue.

There were signs that Christmas was coming...

Briana LOVED walking down 5th Avenue.

We stopped at the Lindt store (and yes we did buy chocolate!)...

The store is temporarily closed right now due to the Covid surge. I'm so glad we were there before this nasty surge hit.

It was getting close to 7PM and we didn't realize all the upscale stores closed at 7. We weren't able to go in any of them, but we did look in the windows. Briana has already requested to go back so we can enter the stores.

Cartier...

Bri especially loved the Saks 5th Avenue windows...

We walked past the Michael Kors store (didn't take a pic), and Briana fell in love with a puffy jacket in the window. And I admired a small purse. 

Doug went online and ordered Miss Thing the jacket for Christmas...

And I got the purse I admired...

Very exciting Christmas surprises!

So, it looks like a shopping trip in NYC will happen sometime in the future. Maybe a 16th birthday trip? We'll see.

We had eaten a pretty late lunch that day at the food carts, so we decided to just grab a few slices of cheesecake from Juniors to take back to the hotel for dessert...

 

Seriously, the most decadent cheesecakes!! So delish!!!

 

We had a long, full, wonderful day.

 

 The next day was going to be the BIG day though. Broadway day!!!

NYC Trip 2021 - Day 2 - American Museum Of Natural History/Part 3

It was finally time for us to leave the museum, but we did have to make one quick stop at the gift shop first...

We found the exit and headed out...

We made one last stop to take a picture in front of the museum...

On Jan 19, the Theodore Roosevelt statue which stood in front of the museum for over 80 years (and has been extremely controversial) was removed and is being moved to North Dakota. 

 And I completely understand why (yet I'm still glad I got to see the statue for myself before it was removed)...

 

 The museum is located right across the street from Central Park...

 

It was a beautiful autumn day...

We were getting very hungry after all those hours touring the museum, so we found a spot to sit for a few minutes and grabbed some food from a couple of the food carts that were located all over the place...

This woman walked up to one in a wedding dress...

Our mid-afternoon lunch (Briana opted for chicken fingers)...

We then called an Uber to get us back to the hotel. We rested there for a couple of hours and headed out again that evening to see Rockefeller Center and 5th Avenue.

More on that next...