 Hey, y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali, welcome to a new vlog. We are currently in New York City. We just got here today and we put in the name of our hotel, which is the Millennium on Broadway. It's Millennium Broadway. Millennium Broadway. But I think like we put in like Millennium Hotel Broadway and it took us to a place like 20 minutes away. So we had to hop out of the $50 lift and then get on the subway. So that was not too fun lugging our luggage up the stairs, down the stairs of the subway, but we made it. And Ryan just had a couple calls. I still need to submit some sponsored content tonight, but we are gonna go meet my friends. I'm so, so happy because I get to see my best friend, Laura. And if you guys watched my December New York vlog, you know that I hadn't seen her in four years since we both graduated college. Actually, she's graduated I think six months earlier than me. So we hadn't seen each other in so long and the fact that we get to see each other two times and within like six months is insane. I am in New York for work. I think I told you guys in my last vlog, but I'm doing a panel later this week with Amazon and I'm not really sure how I'm gonna split up the vlogs that might be in a separate vlog if I get like a lot of footage and stuff because that's like our last day we're here is the panel. So definitely gotta prepare a little bit more because they gave me the questions ahead of time. So I just wanna be, you know, ready to answer all of them. But today is Met Gala Monday and we're in freaking New York. So me and Lara were like, okay, let's just see if we can spot any celebs. I think we're gonna meet her and her boyfriend at a subway station and then head over to the Met and then we have dinner reservations right after. This is a little chic spot type of spare. Walking the Met Gala, just got my in-bite, so we're gonna check it out. May stay for a little bit and then you don't know. I love the rest of her too. You look so cute. I love how we're kind of matching. Oh, I love your outfit so much. Hey, what's up? Oh, wait, wait, look at this. Oh, yeah. You guys are matching better. So we're gonna go to the Mark Hotel or the Carlyle. I don't remember. Okay. Well, there's two. There's the Carlyle that we could go to or the Mark. That's true, but the Mark is closer. Either way. I'm down for anything. I just wanna see the chaos. If I see a little of the carpet, I'll be happy actually. Okay, then we would have to go to the Met too. So we'll go. We saw a celebrity today in the airport. He's a who? Oh yeah. Cavalieries. Do you know who? Justin Anderson is D.P. Hue. He's very, like, dentist. Oh. Ryan. I went to the Met Gala. Yeah, we were invited. Yeah, we were. And this is what we're wearing. Very, um, camper, whatever it's called. Oh, wait, do we eat another thing? Um, like a line of something. It's for carls and a girl. I was telling her, if I see a Kardashian, like, I will shut my pants. Looked it up. This has a line of beauty. That can mean anything. We see a sprinter van and people are, like, crowding. So, oh, there's another one. Oh my gosh. So currently, people come out of the Carlyle Hotel. So we're, we're out here trying to sleep. Everyone's phones just went up at the same exact time. I'm like, okay. Yeah, I'm like. We're just gonna look at people's phones. We've got the gates, so we're gonna step up on here and hopefully get a better view. You guys told Laura I need back support. We're gonna get the video. Okay, guys, what do you guys think? What's it be some no-name now? I know. We even see, like, guys from the past two months where we could actually get a view. Good to go. That's when they scream, you get up? Yeah. The last person we saw was Lily Collins and Antonio got her getting in the car. So that was pretty cool. But we're going to an actual met now. We can't get, like, too close, but you can still see it, which is pretty cool. Coffee, so we're gonna go to Loc Lowe. And I've seen this on TikTok, actually. It's like a, now, everything was, like, covered with little Christmas shops and an ice skating rink, so it's, like, so weird to see it, not filled with all that. I thought we went in early December. It was, like, right after we went home for Thanksgiving. So it was December, but how's your coffee? I got no ice, but I probably should have got ice. It's good. Beard drop thing. It's so cool to watch. It looks so thick. No, no, I don't like it. The famous New York Pigeons are everywhere, too. It's a little incident this morning because, well, actually, last night, we saw that the water wasn't working in our hotel room. So we were like, okay, it's too late to, like, call, like, the front desk. And so we just waited until this morning. But it still, like, wasn't on. And so Ryan went down. He gave us, like, two water bottles. It's like, yeah, it'll turn back on soon. Like, we just turned it back on or whatever. And it, like, we waited, like, 30 minutes and it never came back on. It means we couldn't even, like, flush the toilet or anything. So, oh, it's starting to rain a lot. But anyways, I was able to get ready with my water that I had in my water bottle, so that's fine. I think we're gonna go to another coffee shop. I've always wanted to go to this place called Maman. And I think they have some food there. It stopped raining and now it's, like, raining even harder. So. We started pouring so much that we just went back into our hotel and took a little break. And then now we see a little bit of blue skies behind us. So that's giving us a little bit of hope for today. But we're gonna go to Maman because I didn't get coffee. I wanna try over there. I've never seen weather change this fast. It's springtime again. The blue skies were just out, y'all. It's 5.51. We're back out and the skies are blue. I retouched my hair again. And we are at Central Park. And we're just gonna chill here for a little bit. I'm out of breath because I'm hopped up the stairs of the subway and it was steep, so. But I think we're gonna get a snack because we have dinner reservations at 8 o'clock. So this pizza, I'm starving. I can't wait until the sushi before dinner. The pizza place Brian mapped us to was like a sit-down pizza place. It was open. Yeah. So we just came into, like, this bodega. And you're just gonna get a little sandwich and it just seems like a little snacky. I got the chicken Parmesan Padini. Look how pretty your view is. Only two of my fingers are, like, completely frozen. I really didn't think it would be, like, this cold. Like, gloves cold, but. So that's what it's, 54. It's a good thing we packed good jackets, though. Well, it's in the shades, why? Yeah, that's true. It's almost seven. I think it takes, like, 30 minutes to get to our reservation. So we're just gonna go ahead and head there. We're in Soho and there's a bunch of these, like, Indian stores right here. I love that. And look how freaking nice this linga is. I told Brian, this is what I want to wear at our reception. And then he was like, oh, that's only $900. But it's actually 9,000. Which is a normally cost. I mean, like, look at the beating on that, you know? I don't know if it's actually cheaper to make it in India or what. I mean, obviously, we're in New York right now, so it's gonna be, like, stupid extensive. I know the necklace looks like it's very costuming, but. Oh, guys, look at the linga. One day, Brian's gonna be in that. Not that size. A little big one. Hey, maybe. You know, you never know. If I lose my bone mass, it's like, cut my ribs out. It doesn't even look that small. It's going to your knees. Oh, my gosh, guys, I cannot get over this. I want it. We're gonna walk around a little bit because we are a little bit early and the Omakosa Place is, like, super small, so I don't even think we can get in early. As some of you may know, I got a Fuji film camera recently and that was supposed to satisfy my wants for the Lika because it is a very pricey camera, but Lika's are, like, stupid expensive, but look where we are. The Lika store, everything's closed, though. I wish things were open because we have some time to walk around, but can barely see anything. The camera I wanted from here is, like, $5,000, which is insane. So, yeah, that's why I went with the Fuji film. We just got off the train and now we're in the Oculus. This thing is so cool and massive. Let's go up this viewing deck. It is day three in New York and today we are going to explore Brooklyn. We've never been to Brooklyn. We've only been to the Brooklyn Bridge, like, on the not really Brooklyn side, so we're excited to explore. Be honest, we didn't do much research, so it might be a little bit more spontaneous. And I think we're gonna get lunch because it's 11 and we're checking out of our hotel here because I am getting my other hotel covered by Amazon for the panel. And I have decided, I think I'm just gonna split up these vlogs, so I'll probably start a new one later this evening. But we have a really fun day ahead of us. We're going to dinner with my friend, Laura, again, and her boyfriend, Antonio. Then after that, we're going to Comedy Cellar and we had so much fun last time, so we're like, we have to do that again while we're here. We're in Black Street Coffee. We got a free homemade cheese moussine. Yeah, he just gave us a croissant for free. We're starving, guys. We haven't eaten all day. What time is it? Like, one, almost one. And we did a little work. We had to check in and then we just plug out at the hotel because we wanted to do a little work. But this is where we are right now. In Soho, we changed hotels and we are gonna go to Brooklyn for our first time. Subway ride, huh? I feel like that didn't even take 30 minutes. Oh, the walking stars. Lovely. I loved my try at Blank Street. Ryan really liked his coffee, too. But that was just a little snacky because we are going to get, like, lunch at a waterfront restaurant. I believe you can see the water from there. Ryan booked it just now, so we're heading over there. Passing the famous street. Washington Street is where you see, like, the really cool bridge view. We're running a little late, so we'll definitely come back and take pictures. But oh my God, how friggin' cool is that? Through our late brunch spot, this is where we're eating. Ryan picked it out. Look at the view, guys. Look at this. So cool. There's, like, a little merry-go-round right there. And we definitely want to take the ferry back because I want to go on a boat. And I want to be on the water. So funny, but I'm right under a bridge. Honestly, I think this might be the man had 48 minutes to get home using the ferry, and then 20-something minutes to get home using the train. But we were like, let's do it for the experience. So here we are. We have to download app. Tickets were, like, four dollars one way. You're taking it right now? Yeah. Can anybody stop me, Joe? You're the best, so good job. True. It's only dropping us off at Wall Street, so we'll stop to take the subway home. We just got to our new room. We actually changed hotels because the brand I'm here with is covering this place. All New York hotels are very small, but very chic. This is the bathroom. We forgot to give you guys an update on how the omakase went last night. We came to New York in December, and we had another place's omakase, and we actually preferred that one better. Yeah, so let's see Shibari TX before we came here. Yes, which is like one of the best omakases in Austin. So maybe we were just, like, coming off a high horse, you know? But we definitely recommend Moko. I think that's what it was called, right? Moko? Something like that. We're off a dog poop in front. I just step in dog poop that time we went there, but this place was called Cheeky, so I don't know, I just like, wasn't great. So the way I did research to find somewhere to eat in Brooklyn, I literally just put in Brooklyn on the map and hit like the Apple guides or whatever. I mean, I had a good view, so I was like, let's try this place, and I like, lost this, so. Yeah, we didn't. Yeah, like I said, we didn't. We did no research at all. Yeah, but it was really nice to walk around. It was clean and lots of pretty, yeah. I liked it a lot, and so the ferry was cool too. I probably had rather just taking the train, but I'm glad we marked it off our bucket list. We had to walk kind of hard too to get to the train after the ferry, so I was like, okay. But it's kind of crazy, because I feel like I'm walking a lot and I'm still not even heading anywhere near 10K. Like, we're not walking as much as we did in December, but. So I started walking at like 12 instead of like, 8 a.m. like we did last time. That's true, that's true. But now I'm like, okay, I wanted to have like a goal of walking 10K steps when I get back home and get back into a routine. And I'm like, oh my God, if I'm not even hitting 10K steps when I'm like walking around the city, like that's pretty insane. And I'm like super tired. So we have about two hours to chill before dinner, and I'm actually gonna end the vlog here because I want to start up a new one for my Amazon event. That is tomorrow. I still have to like do some preparing of like reading over the questions and everything like that. So yeah, I'm really excited, very nervous. I feel like it hasn't even hit me yet. As always, if you guys aren't following me on Instagram and TikTok, go ahead and do so. 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