The Ambitious Odometer: {TEEN Trip} New York City

This morning we Ubered down to City Hall Park to meet up with our guide for a walking tour taking us over the Brooklyn Bridge and into Brooklyn!

It was so interesting and fun...

with beautiful views of Manhattan along the way...

After we crossed the bridge, we went on a walking tour of a couple of neighborhoods in Brooklyn...

We saw where President George Washington lived during the Battle of Long Island...

as well as some beautiful views of Manhattan from across the river...

This is supposedly the home where Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's...

Our (3.5 hour!) walking tour ended in the very popular DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) area...

where we found more beautiful views...

and a really delicious lunch at Juliana's Pizza. I say lunch because while L ordered pizza...

I ordered one of the best salads I have ever eaten...

Maybe I'm sheltered, but it was GOOD...

After lunch, things got just a little bit dicey. So, we literally ate and ran because we were on a tight timeline trying to 1) stop by our hotel to freshen up and change out of our (3.5 hour walking tour) "athleisure" and 2) make it to our 3:00 show - "Six the Musical"!

While I am completely comfortable getting around in Manhattan, whether it be by foot, by subway, by Uber, or whatever, I know nothing, and I mean NOTHING, about Brooklyn. In fact, I had (very hard to secure) reservations booked (like 6 months out) for The River Cafe in DUMBO just to end up cancelling them when we decided it would just be L and me (no Hubby) because I wasn't familiar enough with how to get there and get back. I am now, but that's what I'm getting at here...

So, since we were running late (and the subway station was not super close to where we ended up), I decided to call for an Uber. After waiting patiently (and I think I am a very patient person) for half an hour (HALF AN HOUR) and watching on the app as the driver went over the bridge to us, then back to Manhattan, and then back to us in Brooklyn again (yet never actually figured out how to get off the overpass and over to us under the bridge), I cancelled the ride, and we decided to hike it over to the subway (using the directions our walking tour guide left us).

By the way, the directions included very specific instructions to make sure to get on the subway going toward Manhattan and to not mess up and go the other way, further into Brooklyn...

Okay...pressure...

So, we trucked it over to the subway (found it), got on it (going the correct way), and got off at the first stop in Manhattan (Fulton Street). We debated changing trains and trying to make it back to Grand Central Terminal and our hotel, but ultimately decided that we really had to go straight to the show ("athleisure" and all). So, we rolled up to the theater at about 3:07 looking all the part of having just been "stuck" in Brooklyn after a (3.5 hour) walking tour... Bless...

All joking aside, it wouldn't have been that bad at all had we not been in a bit of a rush... I mean, we could've totally just walked back over the bridge, but my brain was a little fuzzy after our (3.5 hour) walking tour, and I couldn't really process how long that might take!

After the (AMAZING) show, we grabbed an early dinner next door at Trattoria Trecolori...