Life is Beautiful: A picture perfect weekend with my Dad

This weekend my Dad came to visit me! Let me just tell you that we had quite the adventure this weekend. On Friday night, we went to the International Center for Photography. ICP is a school, however, there were 3 exhibits on display. It was a free event and it was amazing- the photography was unreal. After we took a walk around Bryant Park, the NY Public Library and Times Square. We then went back up to Harlem to have dinner at Sylvia's. And yes, we had fried chicken! It was delicious and this restaurant was featured on the food network! If you're ever in Harlem for any particular reason, be sure to try some down home soul cookin' and stop in at Sylvia's!

Times Square

Sylvia's

On Saturday, my Dad and I went to the newly opened 9/11 Memorial. Words cannot even express how beautiful it was, so I'll let the pictures move you. It rendered me speechless and really touched me... truly a wonderful way to pay tribute to those we lost and the twin towers. I took some pictures and decided to post a few so you could see this beautiful memorial.

After the Memorial, my Dad and I literally trekked all over... literally. Our adventure took us downtown to the Financial District to first check out the Occupy Wall Street crowd; it's really beginning to smell down there. Anyway, we strolled downtown, checked out the Seaport by the Brooklyn Bridge and then walked over the bridge! It was a gorgeous day for it, and we had a ton of fun taking pictures!

Manhattan Seaport

Manhattan Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Skipping Rocks

The Bridge from the park

This is one of the horses from the brand new carousel that opened this September. It is right on the water overlooking both the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. The carousel was refurbished and then opened in Brooklyn!

I was really excited to take a ride on the Carousel! Felt nice to be a little kid again!

We got pizza at Grimaldi's!!! So yummy!

view from the Manhattan Bridge

Chinatown

Taking a ride over the Manhattan Bridge

Graffiti from the Manhattan Bridge

After walking over the Manhattan Bridge, we ended up in Chinatown. We took a stroll through Chinatown and Little Italy. There was lots going on down there; we got to witness Chinese Opera, intense games of chinese war and plenty of people out and about shopping. We did not buy any knockoff handbags, although we must have been asked about a hundred times... gucci, gucci, louis, chanel?

Intense game of Chinese War

sharing the love in Greenwich Village... we walked up through Washington Square, through Greenwich Village and Soho, up past Union Square and ended up at the Flatiron Building.

Painted Cup Display in the Flatiron Building

We had such a long and eventful day- these pictures honestly don't even cover the half of it! After walking around all day, we came home, made pork chops and were in bed by 10pm!! We were pretty exhausted.

On Sunday, we woke up early and went to go pay a visit to Lady Liberty!