NICE TO MEET YOU. WHERE'VE WE BEEN?
WE CAN SHOW YOU INCREDIBLE THINGS.
:D
ARE YOU READYY TO READ ABOUT OUR ADVENTURE WE HAD ON FEBRUARY 19TH??!!
mkayy, so jackie, james, my mom, and I all went out to spend a day in New York to go ice skating and to go see the Taylor Swift Museum!!
It's been a long time since we got to go to New York together doing something fun and I already miss this day and want to go relive it again. hehee
also, i am aware that we have another post titled "welcome to new york" buttttt TOO BADDDD
IM TITLING THIS ONE WELCOME TO NEW YORK TOOO. lol
behind the scenes of the picture below
Yaa the pic here looks soo gloomy and cloudy out, but it was actually really sunny and warm the whole day. We left around 11ish so that's probably why it looks poopy out.
The whole bus ride, we talked about weird things that scare us and funny things that happened in school and just talked about random things that make me love talking to Jackie. :)
WELCOME TO NEW YORK!!
IT'S BEEN WAITING FOR YOU :)
we're walking fast through the traffic lights
busy streets and busy lives
i got those fresh eyes lalallalla
jkjk more like baggy sleepy eyes for not sleeping at all cuz i was too excited about going to NY hehe
there's a restaurant called sushirrito
every one has been talking about sushi burritos.
like theres this girl that talks about it all the time in art class and pat and jackie had one.
I WANT A SUSHI BURRITOOooooOO
So the first thing we did in New York was ice skatingg at Bryant Park because Sui yee yee won a raffle at her company for VIP tickets for ice skating which is supahh cool. :)
WHEEE I LOVE ICE SKATING SOO MUCHH
yeah..these kind of made our ankles hurt but it was totally worth it. :)
so for the kids that didn't know how to skate, there were these cute little penguins and snowmans that helped them skate and guide them around the rink.
I would so use one even though i know how to skate
before we got yelled at for taking pics inside the rink
aha james didn't really know how to skate so we were basically just dragging him
james looks like a water bending surfing ninja
james is like HELPPP MEEEEEE
"if we all fall, we all fall down together"
^^If we go downn then we go down togetherr lalalaa
it was a horrible day to go ice skating because it was so sunny and was about 60 DEGREES out. ohmygoodnesss you could see the puddles of water when people skated on top of it and when people fell, they had a watermark all over their butts. The skate workers even tried sweeeping the water away but the ice just kept melting. LOLOLOL cries
nonetheless, ice skating was a lot of funnn even with melting ice.
you can't really see in this pic, but right behind us is a building called GRACE.
bwahahaa yaya i'm a fashion designer if ya didn't know and sell clothes.
awkward hands picture #4u38
yeah so james didn't want to ice skate anymore. :(
and my mom was being a wooblee stalking ninja and took pictures of us on the upstairs level inside the building.
OOHH there was also this really talented skater that was skatingg soo gracefully and fast and doing twirls and other tricks. when i have my kid, i'm going to sign my kid up for ice skate lessons and skate with him/her. :)
here's a video where i spotted my mom recording us bwahaha
Fun Fact: Taylor Swift calls this pose the flamingo pose and did it all the time when she sang "Blank Space."
falling. dying. wheeeee
ya this is me yelling at my mom to hurry upppp
we wanted to pose with lifting up one foott but it was soo hard trying to balanceee lol.
ya this was the only good pic..all the other ones are us laughing and holding onto each other for balance and me yelling at my mom to hurry up because we couldn't hold up our leg for any longer LOLL
i look like a boyyy but wheee i love you jackiee
awww we love this safety skater worker dude for photobombing us even though he didn't let us use our phones while skating. :(
we got tired after an hour of skating because our legs were already sore from the asian dance and the skates kinda hurt and BECAUSE IT WAS SO WARM OUT, so we went inside and got a snack that came with our tickets. hehe, we got cookies and brownies and tons of bottles of coke and ate it in the sunroom/lounge room. mahnn, i can't imagine being in that sunroom during the summer time, it would be boiling in there. but then again..people wouldn't be ice skating in the summer.
Yeah, but i enjoyed being in that sunroom even though it was so hot and melted my cookie because there were different board games on each table and me and Jackie played Guess Who? while james and mommy played Chess while we ate our snacks. :)
<3 it took forever to take this photo because james kept flashing his hand in front of the camera -_-
So after iceskating, my mom wanted to take Jackie to this famous bagel shop nearby because their bagels are soo fresh and homemade and we haven't had their bagels in awhile. buttttt, after walking a few blocks, we found out that they close on Sundays. :( ughh
aha, my mom was disappointed that she couldn't take jackie there and kept apologizing to me the next day, LOLOL WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE NEXT TIME JACKIEEE. ;)
omg the last time we went to the empire state building was like 5th grade and although we didn't go in this time, i can't believe how much we've grown. AHHH
WELCOME TO NEW YORK!
i can't wait to travel around the world with you :)
GOINGG ON THE TRAIN TO THE TAYLOR SWIFT MUSEUM!!!!!
^^doggie!!
<3
:( cries jackie and i had to split up :(
HERROO!!
wowww seaport is soo nice and very European-like
mommy, james, and i
adventures with my family
AHAHA my mom and i were trying to find the address to the museum and my mom was about to look for directions on google maps...and right when i turned my head to the left..I WAS LIKEE MOMMYYY IT'S RIGHT HERE.
AHAHAHAHAHAHHA
<3 i wish they didn't cover taylor's eye with a pole :(
i love you
what a cutie
taylor hugging jackieee
'cause we never go out of styleeeee
wow its a picture of a huge poster of taylor with this pose with us wearing a shirt of this pose with us doing the pose that she's doing. :O
lol, ya i purposely brought my Taylor Swift sunglasses for this pic lol
okok so at this point, we were debating to go out to lunch even though we had about 15 minutes left until the museum started. BUT THEN THIS CUTE LITTLE DOGGY NAMED RUBY WALKED TOWARDS US!!
OMG GUYSSS!! MY MOM IS FINALLY LETTING US GET A DOG!! WHOOO!!
and after talking to the owner and petting Ruby, IT'S OFFICIALL THAT WE'RE GETTING A DOGGG!!
she's a shiba inu and apparently this is the dog James has been begging for because of that doge meme...BUT SHE IS SOO MUCH CUTER THAN THAT MEME.
but yeah, for the past week we've been looking around for this breed :)
hehe i made the pic even cuter than it already is
ARE YOU READY TO EXPERIENCE OUR EXPERIENCE OF THE TAYLOR SWIFT EXPERIENCE?
when we first walked in, we went straight upstairs and the walls were all the cover of the magazines Taylor was featured in.
HOW IS JACKIE AND TAYLOR SOO PRETTY?!
that guy knows how to shake it off XD
the first thing we decided to wait on line for was a karaoke to "we are never ever getting back together" but the line was so long sop while we waited on line, we asked the kind people in front of us to take pictures in front of the dance floor for us. :)
IT'S LIKE I'VE GOT THIS MUSICCC IN MY MIND SAYING IT'S GONNA BE ALRIGHTT
the floor is soo cool because the tiles change colors every time you step on it XD
awww this makes me miss the time we met taylor because we did the heart hands together.
AHHHHH
Jumping failzz
and eventually it was our turn for the karaoke to "We are never ever getting back together" and they recorded us while singing. AHHH
LOLOL IT WAS SOO FUNNY AND WE PROBABLY SCREAMED SOO LOUD THAT EVERYONE ELSE ON LINE HEARD US AND IDK WHY IM IN CAPS.
Then we went downstairs. :)
THIS WAS TAYLOR'S KEYBOARD SHE USED ON HER 1989 TOUR WHEN SHE SANG WILDEST DREAMS/ENCHANTED!!
AND EVEN THOUGH WE TECHNICALLY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO TOUCH IT, IT WAS SO WORTH IT BECAUSE WE TOUCHED SOMETHING THAT TAYLOR TOUCHED!!
lol the keyboard was so dusty though and turned our fingers grey
Jackie doing a duet with taylor. :)
TAYLOR'S BABY CLOTHES!!
AHHH THE FAMOUS SPARKLY GUITAR THAT SHE USED AT HER FEARLESS TOURRRR
<33 cutie pie
taylor's childhood <3
there was also a video that showed how dedicated and crazy some of the swifties are and this one guy met taylor and made her autograph the side of his stomach.
and then the next day, he went to a tattoo place and got taylor's signature tattooed.
HOW COOL IS THAT? i would so do that too lolol
these were the outfits that she wore when she performed/wore at the grammy's. :)
music video costumes in order: Begin Again, Blank Space, Bad Blood (both)
OUTFITS SHE WORE TO THE 1989 TOUR:
Wildest dreams/enchanted; welcome to new york and new romantics; style
taylor swift's first draft of White Horse
draft of Welcome to New York
her handwriting is soo prettyyy
it's actually so cool to see her writing process and how the song is actually put together and to see the lyrics that she decided not to include
my camera sucks. -_- and jackie had to take most of them. merp
the left picture is from her music video, Mean.
and the last two are from the RED concert: I knew you were Trouble and Red.
lolol i know soo much about taylor. :)
CUZ LOVING YOU IS REDDD
we asked sooo many people to help us take pictures of us...lol i hope they weren't too annoyed but they took such nice pics of us. :D
it was the last day of the museum being in New York because it's going to LA after this, and we were hoping that Taylor would visit her museum in the city she loves the most...but she didn't. :(
jump then fall
you took a polaroid of us, then discovered the rest of the world was black and white and we were in screamingg colorrrr
BWAHAH I BROUGHT MY POLAROID WITH ME SO WE COULD TAKE SWANK PICS OF US IN NEW YORKK
<3
i love how these two pictures came out...soo cuteee <3
#taylorswiftexp
lol, we asked like 5 billion people to help us take pictures
before we left the museum, we asked the security guard to take a picture.
hehe, we never wanted to leave the museum
irrelevant but i kinda want to cut my hair again
i wanna live hereee
Seaport is so aesthetic
james photobombing once again
james planning to photobomb meee -_-
James was pranking people or something and rolling all over the grounddd
Also, just wanted to say james was soo mad that he had to hang out with girls the whole day just for taylor swift. But in the end, he had so much fun because he got to fangirl over harry potter to jackie. James has literally been watching the harry potter movies every single day for the past month. and apparently he had the best pizza in the world while we were in the museum and mommy bought james candy, and he got to parkour all over the floor in ny. vury good day.
james does this all the time to meee UGHHH
wow what a rebel..walking on closed sidewalk lololol
i literally thought these were real windows and signs..mahn whoever painted this did a good job
or maybe i'm just stupid
or maybe both
so after the museum, we had a lot of time left till dinner with my cousins, matthew and patrick.
and i wanted to walk across the bridge..but the bridge was actually really far away and we were too tired and lazy to walk hehehe
my mom took soo many pictures of meeeeee lol
such a pretty scenaryy
there's another bridge across from this one above and thats the bridge spiderman climbed on and wrote I LOVE YOU to Gwen. lolol
mahn so many throwbacks
throwback to when we were here last year over the summer and we got lost somewhere around here.
also we're wearing the same outfits we wore last time. hehe
i feel like i forgot how to blog again
aghhh
zai zhongguo town
dim sum GOGOGOGOGOGOOGOGOGOGOGO
i was so scared doing this lol
hehe so we're doing a chinese reseach contest thing about how the chinese culture has influenced our lives...so here is us doing a yoga pose in china town wheeee
chinese lanterns for chinese new year
hehe we bought these like tiny little cakes that i dont know what they're called in english but they are literally my childhood
nom nom nom
what's a playdate without bubble tea? XD
thai bubble tea is the best bubble teaa
hehe last time when we were here together, jackie wanted to try thai..but they ran out :(
luckily, they had it this time and i want bubble tea now
featuring james' tongue
hawt baby tapiocas
bwahah we also met up with my grandpa in chinatown so we could go to dinner with matthew and patrick. HAI GONG GONGGG
those grapes are soooooooo biggggg
while we were walking to the restaurant, there was a huge line of people lining up from outside a shop and they were selling the bread of the red bean fish cakes, but stuffed it with ice cream instead of the red beans. THAT SOUNDS SOOO GOOD..ahh next time we should try that too...hopefully the line isn't too long lol
this cute little baby kept staring at us
oh mah goodness i love babies
so cute
i wanna pinch his cheeks
james the animagous, turning himself into a unicorn
ya, so we went to this restaurant called XO for dinner and we went here all the time over the summer. and even if james and i didn't make it out to the city, my mom and grandma brought some back for us for dinner. <3
lol, jackie we may not have took you to the best bagel place, but instead we took you to the best Chinese restaurant we know in Chinatown. :)
WOWOW we traveled the world in one day.
we went to New York took the train to Seaport which reminded me of England, then walked to CHINAtown, and now we're in little ITALY.
wowowowoow
haha there's a icecream store called penguin ice cream
CHIII ERRRRRRR
i wonder if they make the ice creams look like penguinss lol
lol as we were driving home, i saw this on the wall and thought it was the cutest thing everrrrrr
LOLOL AND I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE TILL I GOT HOME, BUT NATALIE POSTED THE SAME PICTURE ON HER STORY. LOLOL
what a small world...we were at the same place at different times
James' singing and his impression of Voldemort is the funniest thing everrrrrrr
:OOOooooOOOO
if you wanna hear james's voice cracking and beautiful singing, please watch.
i promise it'll make your day.
sooooo funnyyy
car-aoke
okay well if you didn't watch any of the videos, you should watch this video. it makes me soo happyyy..
right when the song, "play that song" by Train came one, jackie and james both said I LOVE THIS SONG at the same time. lol and james and i scream this song at home all the time. but matthew, patrick, james, jackie, and i were all singing so loudly in the car and i love how some songs have such an impact on someone and give them these happy little butterfly feelings.
i love my famiy and i love car-aokes and i wanna go on a roadtrip.
THE LIGHTS ARE SOOO BRIGHT BUT THEY NEVERRR BLIINDD MEEE
Sadly, Jackie wasn't allowed to sleep over when we asked her like last minute to lol
but she got to stay over at my house for a bonfireee because it was sooooooo nice outsideee
Setting up the bonfire!
we also played man hut and james was soo bad at seeking. patrick literally ran across the backyard twice in plain sight and james didn't even see him. loll
FIRE NOODLES
'cause i seeee sparks flyyyy
THANKS FOR MAKING THE BONFIRE UNCLE JIAA
our hair and jacket smelled like bonfire the next dayy
ahh we love that smelll yum yum yum
lol every time we say ohh yaaaa we're going to roast marshmallows, we always end up burning the marshmallows and then just end up burning sticks.
we also baked potatoes in here....but we took them out too late and they were too dry and burnt. :(
we also listened to so many gooodd songsss during the bonfire..mahn i cant wait till summer
we also listened to all of taylor swift's old music <33333
we were waving the sticks around and they looked like sparklers
lol, since it was getting pretty late, we were just like oh yeah after this song we'll drop jackie off.
and we just kept stalling and stalling until it was 11 and jackie had to go home because it was getting too late and the fire was dying out. but we never wanted to leave each other. :(
AHH THIS DAY WAS SUCHA FUNN DAY SPENDING TIME WITH JACKIE IN NEW YORK.
<333333
WHOOO
SHOUTOUT/THANKYOUUU TO NOAH AND WAI YEE YEE FOR GETTING ME THE TAYLOR SWIFT EXPERIENCE TICKETS!!! <333
and thankss you to my mommmyy for taking us out and making everything soo funnnnn and memorable. <3
WHOOO ICE SKATINGGG + TAYLOR SWIFT + BUBBLE TEA + CAR-AOKES + BONFIRES+BEING AROUND FAMILY= HOOPY HOOOPY HOOPYY HAPPY GRACE AND JACKIES.
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