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Friday, September 21, 2012

36 Hours in NYC: How To Make The Most Of A Quick Trip

A few years ago, I had to go to Manhattan for a Monday morning meeting. Since I would only be tied up for a few hours, I decided to make the most of the quick trip and take an early flight up Sunday morning and a late flight home Monday night.  I took my best friend with me and we made the most of our 36 hours in New York City.

The meeting was at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, which was also where we stayed. It’s the kind of job perk that I miss. Travel is limited now, but on this day, we tried to do it all.  We shopped on Fifth Avenue (where we ran into Katie Couric), checked out the view at the top of the Empire State Building, saw a Broadway show, took a stroll through Central Park, ate lots of great food and took several death-defying taxi rides (the only kind there are in NYC).

I also bought a scarf from a street vendor and posed quickly for this photo in Times Square.


The layout is primarily Little Yellow Bicycle from the Escape and Splash collections with a little bit of Crate, Echo Park, Studio Calico and October Afternoon mixed in.

Here’s a close-up of the layering in the middle. The cute chipboard from LYB worked perfectly with the page.

The "new arrival" tag under the photo is from Crate's baby line, but I thought it fit here too.

I love New York!

15 comments:

  1. Of course this is fabulous! Love your little details. :) I'm glad you were able to do so many fun things on a short trip! Go you!

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  2. Sounds like a very fun trip and, of course, your layout is fun and fab!

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  3. NYC is the best!! Well, it's home for me too! lol!! I loveeeeeeeeeeeee this!! LOVING the photos, the colors and love love love love the camera and taxi!! Perfect for a NYC lo!!!

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  4. this is just way too cute!! great job with this collection

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  5. OMGosh! GREAT page!! LOOK at all those details and PERFECT for the theme :) What a fun-filled busy and packed 36 hours but glad you got so many things done! Love my old hometown <3

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  6. Wow, you packed a lot into 36 hours! Definitely great time management. LOL! The more I look at this, the more I see, like how you worked the veneer heart in between I and NYC, the fun arrows going this way and that, and great layering too!

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  7. Really great layout! Sounds like a lot of fun!!

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  8. Really fun layout!
    My husband and I took a weekend trip up to NYC several years ago and loved it!
    It's amazing what you can pack into a weekend there :)

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  9. Sounds like fun!! Love this layout! :)

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  10. Love the page, love the scarf & love that you packed so much into your short time there! Same way I would've done it! New York rocks!

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  11. Jealous of the trip, super cute page.

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  12. How fun! Did you get to talk to Katie Couric, or just see her! Sounds like you used every minute you could to take it all in! Great layout!

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  13. Wow...what a cool little business trip! Lucky you :) Awesome design with the different paper collections and elements! Love that yellow cab!

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