A smile at NYC and beautiful weather

Early this month IIC took it's students to the IBCNY - International Beauty Convention New York - in New York City. We were all up early getting ready, after all, we were going to be seeing professionals at this thing, it's not like we could just roll out of bed and look like crap.
7:15 - Every one's at school, getting their tickets, and loading onto the bus.
7:30 - pulling out of the school parking lot. Not an easy task for a coach bus to do on the Silas Dean in a very narrow lot.
A few short hours later we were driving through the ever moving streets of NYC. At some point in my life I'm going to go there and walk around all day just taking pictures of the architecture - I liked some of it more than some of the hair styles I saw :/.

I walked around for a couple hours but left at the request of my grumbling stomach. At first my group and I were just going to walk a couple of blocks to a little pizza parlor someone had told us about, but once outside we met up with a few more people from school who were walking to Time Square for and early lunch. My feet did not want to walk for twenty minutes just to find food and come back, but the rest of my group was going and I had no idea how to get anywhere - and it's not like I was about to take off by myself...- so I went with them....and was glad. The weather was beautiful. Temperature somewhere in the sixties, sun shining brightly, not a cloud in the sky. I was able to tromp around in flipflops all day long! I can't wait till the weather is gorgeous like this all the time because I am SO done with winter...as of 4 months ago.

There is something really surreal about New York. The business of the streets, the architecture of the buildings, the characteristics of the people you meet, the high-end stores filled with millions of dollars of merchandise tucked away in the midst of grungy, sketchy areas. We found a place to eat lunch - I was surprised how bland my pizza tasted for being New York Pizza!!! That should've been illegal - and wandered around for a little bit more before heading back to the show.

The show itself was too overwhelming. I didn't know what I should be looking for, or looking at.I saw SO MUCH, but it all just went over my head.

Anyways, here's a couple pics from the show and other places...
enjoy :)


The weird thing around her head changed color according to her mood...?

right outside where we had lunch. Chevy's Villa.

Yes, Arrojo, as in What Not To Wear man. He was there...somewhere. probably popped up while i was out at lunch tho.