Happy Chinese New Year! Since I was stranded in New York for a few extra days due to the snowstorm, I was hoping that I would be able to get a glimpse of the Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown. Unfortunately, it turned out that I missed the event, but New York’s Chinatown was so much fun anyway because it actually felt like I was in China! Unlike most Chinatowns, it wasn’t cute and kitschy, instead, this one actually felt a place people worked and played in.
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I heard from others who visited Ground Zero that it wasn’t much to see, so I took their word for it and never got around to seeing it in person. But towards the end of our stay in New York, I finally gave into that tugging feeling inside of me that told me to just do it. I wanted to at least try to understand what happened, and to know that it wasn’t just a nightmare.
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Sights, sounds, smells - there’s so much I wanted to capture about New York, but it’s nothing like experiencing it first hand. What can I say, the city just feels so alive. It’s too bad I couldn’t capture the way the city smelled - the air was cold and crisp, but once in a while you would get a whiff of something delicious cooking up in a food cart. It made a cold day in a big city feel so cozy and warm. I’m in love.
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We checked out an antiques show and ginormous toy store. Then we ate. We ate until we couldn’t eat anymore. Then we would impatiently wait for our food to digest so we could continue our quest for food. To me, New York is not a place for shopping - it’s place for eating. And if there’s anything I’m going to miss about New York, it’s the food.
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When it snows, the airports shut down! For the whole day! We expected our flight to be delayed - but it turned out our flight was canceled. Luckily, we had OXO helping us out again, and they not only booked a flight for us on Sunday, but they booked 4 more days of stay at the Ace Hotel. I don’t even know how to begin to thank them.
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OXO products are meant for any kind of user, regardless of how much experience they have in the kitchen. So, it made sense for them to have everyday people be the face of OXO, rather than paid actors. The enthusiasm you see in my videos are 100% real! I was happy to be there, excited to have such a great opportunity to do something I normally wouldn’t do, and the products I talked about are brilliant to begin with.
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If I could do today all over again, I would. Today was a whirlwind of activity, and it was all so much fun. OXO went over the top with everything again, treating us to breakfast, lunch, and the most amazing dinner at Morimoto. On top of that, they gave us a tour of their building and a tutorial on one of the products I’ll be doing a demo on. We didn’t have a chance to go on a tour of Food Network Studios, since they weren’t filming that day (All the sets are temporary! Can you believe that?), so a few of us went out on our own adventure in NY.
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It was a hectic morning getting out the door, and a long 5 hour flight, but we made it! We arrived in NYC at 5pm, so we had just enough time to check out our hotel and get some dinner. We also received MORE STUFF from OXO. I know. Crazy. They’re spoiling us rotten.
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Can you believe I’m going to New York 7 HOURS?! I’m so excited about seeing New York, meeting the OXO crew, the other two finalists, and filming my product demos.
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This was our first day in Madrid - half of our Spain trip was in Barcelona, the later half was in Madrid. Totally different experience. Barcelona has this super chic, LA-like beach city thing going on, and Madrid had more of the old-town, big city feel.
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We had a flight at 3pm to Madrid so we took it easy that morning and just wandered around town. We lost track of time and almost missed our flight! Luckily, we caught it, and everything went fine…whew.
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What a day! We had an early breakfast before heading to Montserrat in the morning, a monestary at the top of a large mountain. We then took the train back to Barcelona, and hopped on the metro to see Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia. I’ve seen it before in my art history textbooks, but it took my breath away when I saw it in person. We wandered all over town for the rest of the day, had dinner, and then passed out.
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We spent about a week in Spain, half the time in Barcelona, and half the time in Madrid. I loved both - Barcelona for it’s modern architecture and beaches, and Madrid for the old world charm.
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Mike looked around and said, “Let’s get out of here. Now.” The RV park we were staying at didn’t have a good vibe. Contrary to what I think most RV vacationers are like (see left), they were, at least for the majority, very cold.
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We had an amazing lunch in wine country, then we headed west towards the coast, stopping at whatever looked interesting. We decided to stay at an RV park at Bodega Bay that night which had running water and a shower (thank god!).
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There’s nothing like a last-minute adventure. We had nothing planned, which felt fantastic. We had the bus to sleep in, clothes, tools (in case something broke on the way), and an entire weekend to look forward to.
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