The next morning was bright, sunny and warmish. My mom decided to let us sleep in so she went the Amish market a few blocks from out hotel to get some yogurt, coffee, bread & jam etc. Once we all had coffee in our veins, we headed off towards the subway; which reminded me of this part in "Teen Angst? Nahh..." by Ned Vizzini when he jumped the turnstiles and got caught by the police. We decided to go the legit way and buy us some metro passes to use during the next few days. 
I've been on the metro many times before like in Montreal and Toronto, but only when I visit. Going on the subway is so fun, plus you can get from Manhattan to Soho in like 5 min. when it could've taken us, like, an hour or more. We then got off on Canal Street and were immediately harassed to spend our money.
After canal, we headed through chinatown and into SoHo and Greenwich village. Surprisingly, we didn't do that much shopping, we only went into H&M, Girlprops and Coach, but didn't buy anything. At that point we were all starving so we decided to try and find a nice restaurant where we could sit and eat a sandwich. We finally decided on an authentic looking Italian cafe. We all got a panini(except of course for my picky little sister who got pasta) and this "chocolate mousse" for desert (it was basically like eating fudge from a bowl) which was all really delicious. After that, we strolled over to the arch in (the name has slipped my mind at the moment) "____" square near NYU and where Harry left Sally in the movie "When Harry met Sally". It was amazing that people had made this thing out of this huge slab of stone. 
We then started heading back to times square through Greenwich village so that it wouldn't be completely dark by the time we got back. We stopped by a few vintage stores and a drugstore to get some awesome neon orange and yellow nail polish. One thing that made me sad is that we never got the chance to go to urban outfitters, because they don't have them here in Canada. Our goal while walking back was to stop by Macy's, just to say we had. Since it was Christmas Eve, I don't think it could've been any more crowded, it was INsane. When we finally managed to get in, we just pushed past all the people to get to the escalators which we just kept going up and up and up...Did you know that there are like 9 floors in Macy's? It's so cool, and the even cooler part is that after the 6th floor, the escalators are wooden? I bet they're from the original store. We went all the way to the top and then looked around at all the Christmas trees. What was funny is that they were all decorated at the bottom because the people were too lazy to decorate all the way to the top.
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