Friend N and I went to NYC last weekend. It was a last goodbye to my NYC friends before I left for the PNW, and N needed a way out of his hectic schedule, so we got a hella nice hotel room in midtown right next to the Central Park and chilled through and through.
Often weekends in NYC will be hectic and tiring to the point that you begin hoping for a vacation to recover from the effects of it. Latenight hangs, dancing until wee hours of the morning, figuring out logistics of the sleeping situation because oops the person you were supposed to crash with is far too drunk so now they're crashing at your friend's place instead as well so now you'll have to sleep on the dining table as every other inch of the apartment is already covered by somebody's sleeping body, etcetera. Complicated situations.
This was not the case. We spent a peaceful afternoon cleaning up and getting ready. Went downtown, got some tea and cookies and chilled with two of N's friends in a park for a few hours. Then came back uptown and spent the next hours in the central park helping a friend busk. Went to a lowkey diner with food that was not particularly good or remarkable, a place we didn't even bother looking up reviews for online, and that was it for the day. The next day I got caught up with college-friend NK who I meet about twice or thrice a year in the city, we got some momos, walked a bunch in the highline park listening into conversations about coming into America and the hacks and tricks people do to stay around, went to a large mall and its two japanese mega-stores (I'm talking about Uniqlo and Muji of course), and that was the end of the trip. No drinking, no unnecessary partying, no logistical nightmare, none of that running groups after groups nonsense.
The last weekend was so chill that it was pleasantly surprising. Staying over at a hotel room instead of some crazy airbnb or somebody's apartment that's wayy off the route makes things so much simpler, like you wouldn't believe. You're not actually spending your time figuring out how to get somewhere and back -- you're already there! You don't have to keep what the last reasonable train out of the town is, you'll just walk a few blocks over!
Bars and clubs have surely been opening in Downtown as well, we didn't explore, and maybe we don't need to anymore. Perhaps we are at a state in our lives where that raucous is behind us, it's possible these sort of chill weekends will pave the way for the future.
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