House Hunting

I guess I shouldn't call it house hunting because who actually has a house in New York City. But whatever :) We went to New York for the weekend to sign a contract. That was seriously our goal, not just look but sign. It was a quick weekend trip, so it was a rather ambitions weekend. Especially once we found out our red-eye flight was delayed two hours. Lame. From the moment we got into the city, we were focused on our mission.

The first place we went was an apartment in Woodside (Queens) very close to where Marcus lived over the summer. We were referred to it from one of Marcus’ two New York friends (outside of work) who knew the couple that lived there and was trying to move. We were hopeful that it would be perfect, but come on, it’s New York, housing couldn’t be that easy to find. But it really was exactly what we were looking for—small, one bedroom, decent sized rooms, close to the subway, good windows, a couple closets, more than two cupboards in the kitchen, … But we decided it was best to keep looking at least for awhile. We looked around for the rest of the afternoon with a management company that actually manages the building this first apartment was in. Crazy coincidence. And we decided that that first apartment really would be our best start in New York. So we got on the paperwork to take over that lease. Then we waited. We could either keep looking or cross our fingers and enjoy being in New York City. Yeah, the second option won. Haha.

We had lots of great food—Indian, Thai, and pizza of course. Oh, and cupcakes from Sprinkles! We walked around Central Park with our Starbucks cups of hot chocolate and caramel apple spice (my favorite!) like true New Yorkers. We went to church on Sunday at what will hopefully be our ward, and we really enjoyed it. And we rode the subway all over the city. We stopped by a Bed Bath & Beyond where I might work. We checked out their Costco, where I tried on official NY jackets.

We probably won’t know for sure about the apartment until after Thanksgiving, so keep your fingers crossed. We do have a Plan B, but Plan A would be so nice to have it just work out how we planned. But that’s always a little much to ask ;)

And here are a few pictures from our trip, in no particular order:

hopefully our future subway stop

Waiting for the subway

Trying on coats in Costco

A cute street in Manhattan. No, our apartment will not look this fun.

Marcus at his desk-- it even says his name on the phone already!

NY excitement!

Sadly, a dark picture of Sprinkles

At Central Park, though it's too dark to tell

Trying to fit in with his Starbucks

Waiting to hear back about the apartment has been rough, but it was fun to pretend it's all worked out already.