New York and I, in Pictures...

Drumroolll please! I have finally got round to uploading mine and Rachy's recent New York trip pictures! I warn you know : 20+ PHOTOS! SORRY GUYS! I have never been good at editing...

Heathrow Airport, my flying outfit (a flight I was knocked out on, thank goodness for Travel Pills...):

New York Motherfookers!! See my excitement?? Fake golllldddd...Canal Street:

Next stop, NSW at 21 Mercer Street. Check this place out, its really cool and was one of the top hot spots on our Sneaker hit list. This is where the Nike dude took a picture of me for the Nike blog:

Next Stop was Opening Ceremony, who stock the very few designer collaborations with sports brands. They sell lots of high end designer clothes too, but I was only interested in the Nike x Liberty and the Adidas x Jeremy Scott kicks! I think they are stocked exclusively here, but they didn't have my Liberty Dunks here, only the Blazers!! I was not allowed to take any photographs, but I had to snap the Opening Ceremony loves Sanrio display! SOO cute! A giant Hello Kitty and her house which had a load of HK stationary in it. I was a tad confused as to how you would get to the HK goods - was you allowed to go in the play house? I was too embarrassed to ask!

Later that evening, Rachy and I met up with my girl Yinka! Yinka happened to plan her NY trip on our uni's reading week (which was NY week to us!) the same time as ours so we was bound to meet up for Dinner. It is so wierd seeing someone from home in another city, hence why I was over happy to see Yinks! We ended up going to a very overpriced and overrated Applebee's in Times Sq. Yes, we know it is Times Sq. and what did we expect, but I can still moan if they charged $53 for just two main's and ONE DRINK! I stuck with tap water...:

The next day we met with uber-sauce pot Emma of All in Your Innerspace!! After hearing of my upcoming trip to NYC, she sweetly offered to meet up with us and show us around Soho and Brooklyn. Emma and her effortlessly cool self met up with us even though we were an hour late! SORRY!! We had a very nice day, walking-talking, being spotted by Olya, and shopping it up. We hit up a few sneaker stores, Girl Props (LOVE!), Kid Robot, and of course Brooklyn's famous Beacon's Closet and Buffalo Exchange. We saw the Girl Prop's sports car too, if I had a dream car it would be that, along with pimped out HK accessories!! We ended a nice day by being shouted at by an angry Italian waitress in a Brooklyn Pizza place...good times! Before our meet, me and Rachy walked around Harlem and walked into a thrift store (who would have thought?) that had some sick 80s silk windbreakers waiting for my arrival no doubt! Cheap as hell too - $3.50 - $6.99!!!! And I know they go for quite a bit on EBay kmt! Rachy got a really cool old school purple New York printed crew neck!

This lot are from our more relaxing days! Our asses were basically broke after our shop-athon in the Big Apple, and probably only after 2/3 days :-(! But it was cool, because we went to all the stores we wanted to, whilst discovering new ones and got stuff for our famo and ourselves! We had a few days left in which we just chilled and strolled aimlessly and doller-lessly (well almost...). We had to go TJMaxx as well, to get me a new suitcase, because the 1st one was full...! I kept within my 'taste's' and got a Jansport Zebra printed one ^-^. We stayed in an really, really nice hostel in Harlem called 5th Spot Avenue. I highly recommend this place, but this is purely based on the 2-bed private en suite room! I am not too sure how the other shared rooms were! Our room was a bit more expensive, but you get a lot more! If the £-$ rates were better this place would have been a bargain!! And we are told that our room wasn't even the best private one they had - can you imagine! The hostel was clean, had vending machines, no curfew, good beds, hot water and a flat screen TVs (!!!). We had one in our room, which was useful for our early nights!! Note my bag matches my kicks!!

With our purses filled with quarters and cents, we headed to the convenience store to buy us sweets and snacks, some to eat there and then and some to take home! I LOVE the Arizona green tea with ginseng and honey! This drink was, excuse my language, CHHHHHOOOOONNNNGGGGGGGGGGG!!! It was so yummy, and only 99cents for that huge ass can! Ergg typing this is making me crave some! Cherry Head, Lemon Head, Mike and Ike's and Hot Tamales were delicious too....

You may remember me lusting over the Nike Air Digg's in this post. With a city full of trainer stores, you would think this one trainer would have been easily acquired. Well, they were bloody hard to find I tell you!! I think because they were just released, maybe they are everywhere now! These were on my most wanted list, and these were the only shoes that stayed in my mind whenever I stepped into a store. Whenever I am looking for something, it is always the hardest to find! This was a mission and a half, but I finally found it in New York's finest Dave's Quality Meat! They were a bit more than I was willing to pay, but I HAD TO COP THESE!! Little did I know, after all my hard work, these are now sold one week later in a stupid chain-sneaker store in my local high street. When Rachy told me, I was mortified. But this does not take away from its hotness!!! Hopefully no-one gets them in my local area....

Rachy and I in Penn Station at 4am, waiting for our NJ Transit train amongst many, many crackheads and tramp that reside at the train station every night for a bed and warmth...it was quite scary, I won't lie:

My NY LOOT! These are the kicks I picked up! I know 7 pairs (EEK!), even I know that is extreme! But I gave my little sister a pair!! L-R: Nike AF2, Nike Air Diggs, Nike Recognition High, Nike Dunks Low , Reebok Freestyle, Nike Dunk Low and Nike Vandals!!