I made it!

I'm here! (Photos of my place are below.) SO, last night I enjoyed my "last supper" with the Schmidts before Leah drove me to the airport. I checked two massive suitcases and got on board my plane to JFK. I was thrilled to have a window seat - yay. I fell asleep before we even took off at midnight. I woke up around 6:00a.m. and looked out the window. I saw the most incredibly spectacular clouds I've ever seen in my life. I basically watched the sunrise from my plane. It was dark when I woke up and it slowly started getting brighter until I could see the sun through a thick layer of huge puffy white clouds - it was bright orange and made everything sooo beautiful. I really wish I had photos of that! Then we started landing and were soon surrounded by thick, dark clouds and rain started hitting the window. It was super turbulent. I was right over the wing of the plane and watched as the whole wing got soaked within seconds to become a dark gray. It was cool. We landed, I got my bags, hailed a cab, and headed for West 81st. My driver didn't know what the heck he was doing once we got past Central Park. I had been on Google Maps looking at this place enough times to have him just drop me off and I walked a block to my place. My roommate Erika met me and helped me figure out which keys to use for which doors. We lugged my suitcases up 4 flights of stairs and came inside 4C! She left for work and I had the place to myself.

This is the main hallway.

This is the kitchen.

This is the bathroom.

This is the living room/TV room/whatever room.

This is my room! (Well, it's mostly my bed. Haha. It's really hard to photograph and I'll have to post more when I can use a better camera vs. my computer!!)

I have a double bed, dresser, closet, and two windows. It also is the only room with AC. Hooray. I have wireless internet here which is great. The shower water stayed hot for the entirety of my shower (imagine that!), and I love being able to hear all the traffic and people outside on the street from my window.

I slept from about 9-1:30 and then got up and unpacked everything. I feel very much at home. This was definitely the right place to stay. I took my time and got organized and then showered and headed to a local burger place called Shake Shack for dinner. [www.shakeshack.com] It was delicious. Better than In-n-Out by far! I came home and Erika was just heading to the gym, then Liz walked in and was home from work early. Liz had brought me a cookie from her favorite bakery near here - Levains [www.levainbakery.com] - it was suuuper yummy... chocolate chip with walnuts. So good, and still warm. Mm.

Now I am just digesting my dinner and sitting on my bed. I'm going to plan my day for tomorrow - which will include grocery shopping and maybe a show tomorrow night!

Love to all.

P.S. A pigeon literally just ran into the railing outside the window.