New York Trip Photos

Posted May 8, 2011, 2:09 p.m.

As you may have seen on Melissa’s site, she was the showcase designer at Asia Store in New York City on Friday. We went up via Amtrak from Manassas, Virginia, on Thursday and then took a cab from NYC Penn Station to the hotel in Soho. We walked down to Chinatown for some shopping and then to neighboring Little Italy for some dinner. On Friday, we went to the event on the Upper East Side and, afterwards, went back to Soho for some Chinese food.

We came back yesterday (Saturday) again via Amtrak, grabbed some dinner at Cracker Barrel, then made a quick trip to Ikea before heading home. We didn’t do a lot of sightseeing on this trip, since we were really only up there for a day (not counting travel days) and were busy with the Asia Store event anyway. I still took some pictures :-). Enjoy!

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East from Manassas

Manassas

Manassas

Guy

Try to pay…?

Steel

Spikes

Welcome to Manassas

West from Manassas

Cop Plant

Amtrak, Incoming

Amtrak

All Aboard

NYC Cab

Melissa, Business Call

Little Italy

Buildings

Inflatable Turkey

Pizza

Melissa and Cheese Ball

To the Event

Stay Classy, NYC

Spools

City

Don’t Honk

Jon Lovitz in Drag?

Upper East Side

Imposing

Red Banner

Blue Banner

Asia Society

Door

Asia Store

Melissa’s Table

Round Pendants

Fine Art

Centerpiece

Display

Meow

Asian

Working

High-End

Artist Statement

Dangly

Sumi

Steady

Busy

Concentration

Artist

Finished

Part Two

Chatty

Artist and Work

Continuing

More Sumi

Through the Chains

All Smiles

Paintings

Tada

Indecipherable

Dazed

Train Art

Cracker Barrel

Politically Correct

Gotta Go?

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