NEW YORK | BLACK FRIDAY, TIMES SQUARE, CENTRAL PARK / Nishi V

Happy Black Friday! We're about to go brave the sails, it's really early. We're gonna get a taxi to Times Square, go to Sephora first, um priorities and all that obviously. Oh someone just jumped in that cab! If we walk down to the main road because we need to go the other way and this is one way it'll be, it'll save him turning around and costing us more. Anyway we don't really have a plan for Black Friday, we've been up really early, went to bed really late last night and we're so tired, like can you tell by my face? Ah it's gonna be a lot of fun hopefully. Are you ready to shop till we drop? Yeah. It's gonna be a fun day, not sure how much I'll be able to vlog um just because you know it's all about the shopping today but we'll see. We're in Times Square! Our taxi driver dropped us off right by Sephora, it's like he knew me, he didn't talk to me but he must have looked at my face and been like yep she needs a Sephora. Oh that's not a compliment is it? I just realised that's not a compliment if he looked at my face and thought she needs a Sephora. But look we're at the right end, NYPD, where is it? There we go. Oh I'm so excited, I love Times Square so much. Every other time that we've been to New York we've always stayed in Times Square which is ridiculously expensive and ridiculously busy but you know it's Times Square, it just has this amazing buzz about it but yeah can we cross? Run run run run run. Sephora here we come! Oh my god there's no queue so far. I've just done a lot of damage in Sephora, I've never had a bag this big before. Oh my god that was a very successful trip like I didn't buy everything I wanted because we're actually going to New Jersey, should we go this way? What are they doing on the street, big screen? Oh yeah so we're going to New Jersey in a few days and it's got a lower tax rate so I thought I'd buy the regular stuff that I want from there and just the Black Friday stuff that's on sale from New York because obviously New York is a double tax state so everything costs a bit more here. There's like a load of people standing on this thing and they keep like screaming. We thought it's kind of like Leicester Square where you can see yourself on the screen but you can't actually see yourself on the screen so we're so confused. I think it's like Pocahontas but this guy started talking to us in Spanish as well, I don't know what you're saying but one word sounded like Pocahontas so I was like, I don't know. It's what they're doing though, I'm so confused, I don't get it because like we're not on the screen, see what I mean, like what, are they like roaring at the news? It has gone dark, I look absolutely horrific, we have shopped till we've dropped, we've sweated our body weight in sweat, I don't know, Black Friday is mental. And look at all of us, we got some sunglasses, that was top of my list, I'm so happy. Oh we desperately need a coffee, I can't wait to go to the hotel, soak my feet in this like bathtub that's this high and just wash this hair and have a coffee. I need water, I'm coming to go now, goodbye, bye. Please ignore the fact that I look absolutely horrific but we finally found a pit stop, I was on the phone to my sister with the wi-fi obviously and just did a bit of googling and while I was on the phone he was like right wait here with all the bags, I'll be back in like 10-15 minutes, we're at four blocks down the road, four blocks right, half an hour later he comes back, let me show you what he's just come back with, look at that, like he's literally just come back with an iPhone. We had a Black Friday deal on right, we walked past the Apple store earlier and there was a really long queue, Jas was like I'm sure Apple don't do Black Friday and there's no new products that's just launched so what's the queue all about, so we saw a guy outside so we asked him and apparently they're doing like a, what did you get, a £50 gift voucher for Apple not iTunes and he found out the phone is actually £200 cheaper with the tax, he's just bought the same phone as me but £200 less, so annoyed about this and I only bought mine about two months ago. Oh look at the Empire State, it's so pretty. Jas and I have reversed roles, I'm now the one sitting down, we're in designer shoe warehouse, oh my god I look awful, look just seriously, can we just take a moment to appreciate how disgusting I look, my feet are killing me, we've been shopping for about 12 hours, our bags are so heavy, he's trying on shoes, I'm just sitting down. Good morning, it is such a beautiful day in New York today, it is the Saturday after Black Friday, this is all of our shopping behind us that we did yesterday, I don't think we're going to be doing a lot of shopping today, we're going to head to Chelsea Market and hopefully go to a restaurant called Bubby's that I've heard really good things about, we walked past it the other day when we did the High Line but it was reservations only because I think it was Thanksgiving that day and it was fully booked so we're going to go down to reception now and ask them to ring them to see if we can get a reservation in about half an hour's time but my aunt and her friend have just checked out their hotel because they're going back to London today and they've left all of their luggage in our room because they've got quite a late flight so they thought they would do some more shopping and then come back and repackage their suitcases, they've also left me with a whole carrier bag full of toiletries that it left behind because obviously when you come on a trip like New York you take all your toiletries but you just have to dump so much of your own stuff here just to fit all your new stuff in your suitcases. I've got some really good products, I mean there's little bits of everything left but I've got like the sanctuary body lotion, micellar water which I was running out of, shampoos and they're actually the shampoos that I use as well, they're the OGX ones, I think that's the maid trying to do our room. We're starving, today was the first day we actually had a little bit of a lie-in, we woke up at about 8.30am which is a first for being in New York, I've been waking up just before 7am every day and we've been going to bed quite late so I've just been really really tired but I think it all finally caught up with us last night because we went to bed just before midnight and we had a bit of a lie-in so that was really nice. Shall we go Jess? Ready Teddy, I'm so happy! Back at Grand Central, it looks so beautiful in the sun, oh I love this place. Look at how busy this station is and it isn't even Penn Street or Penn Square or whatever it's called. This is the busiest we've ever seen the subway, at least since the Saturday night Jess. So busy, we're going to fall over, these trains are neat up here, I need to hold on to you. We're in Chelsea now, oh Jess those fire escape things always remind me of Friends, let me show you, see those black stairs, that's their fire escape routes right, always reminds me of Friends. Anyway we're now in Chelsea, we're on West 14th Street, walking down to West 15th which really means nothing to anyone that's not in New York but it's so pretty here. We're going to Chelsea Market and people keep looking at me, I thought New York was like London, like vlogging should be normal by now right? People are just like, what's she doing? This is so weird because we literally were just here a couple of days ago and we've vlogged this view from all the way up there at the High Line. We've just found this awesome sample sales shop and Jess picked up a super dry jacket for $30. $30 for a super dry jacket? $30 and a t-shirt for $10 and apparently there's no tax if you spend under $110 on clothing, it's considered a necessity as opposed to a luxury. We haven't had breakfast yet have we? So we thought we'd try deviled eggs because they're so American. We're at the World Trade Centre, we're not actually going to go to 9-11 memorial because we kind of thought that a it's a little bit depressing which isn't kind of something you want to do on holiday but also we've actually seen the memorial on the other side from New Jersey on the other side of the Hudson River I think from Hoboken in New Jersey about five years ago so we thought there's no point in us paying to do it this time around. People in New York are so weird when they see me vlogging, I don't understand but you know we're just standing here looking at Look at this! My arms hurt so much, I could barely lift my camera up. We've just been shopping in Central 21, we're now in Hard Rock Cafe. Jess and I used to have this thing, we'd go to like every single Hard Rock Cafe in every country we went to but we kind of seem to have forgotten about that in the past few years and it's been a long time since we've been to Hard Rock. We particularly love this Times Square one, oh we're so hungry and we're so tired. I'm really hungry now, so hungry so tired I'm dead on my feet. Is there ever a day that I haven't said that in New York? I'm so tired So it turns out the Hard Rock menu has changed and they no longer do vegetarian food so we ordered these like really weird um they're called cauliflower wings they're not really chicken wings they're just cauliflower but chicken wings like the batter they sounded really good and to share at the starter and I just got a side of mac and cheese and a side of fries because it's a pretty big portion. Look at this, it's got a whole seating area full of chargers. Other shops need to take note this is so good to keep your man occupied while you shop and it's supposed to be a really cool place for all the locals so we're gonna go check it out Cambodian sandwiches but actually they had a shop in Chelsea Market yesterday we just didn't go there so hopefully it'll be good. It's right around the corner from our hotel as well oh it's sriracha sauce sriracha I can't say it okay let's see what we have cauliflower yeah it's like really thick damn that's a huge sandwich. Those sandwiches were so good but then we just jumped on the train I think we picked a really bad day to come to the Staten Island ferry though because it is so we're just in Battery Park we're walking down towards the ferry there's loads of squirrels here actually let me show you this it's really funny they've got like some allotments on the side but they call it a farm and it's obviously not a farm it's just allotments but it's so funny they call it a farm right and it's literally just like a small allotment it's quite funny we've just sat in Starbucks for about an hour trying to upload my Instagram I'm trying to get the timings right between the UK and the US it's really funny because we didn't actually go on the Staten Island ferry we didn't realize how cold it was until we got here and I think the temperature has completely dropped today and also it's a lot colder by the river but it was quite funny because we walked into Starbucks I got talking to this lady and she was saying that she got the train all the way downtown to go on the Staten Island ferry didn't realize how cold it was until she got here and she was like we're not going on the ferry so just sat in Starbucks I don't think a lot of people have done that because Starbucks was so busy wasn't it Jas it was I mean every Starbucks in New York is busy I think we did the right thing I wouldn't have if we went on the ferry anyway wouldn't have enjoyed it we definitely would have had frozen ears and everything exactly and do you know what it's really weird like if you guys watch any of my travel vlogs every time we go on a boat it's freezing like in Oslo in Copenhagen somewhere else Antarctica we didn't go to Antarctica hang on we need to cross the road anyway can I just say some of you guys that follow me on Instagram are that live in New York and New Jersey are just amazing I've had so many conversations with people that live out here I never knew I had that many people following me that live in New York and you guys are giving me some really good recommendations but today's our last day and I'm really sad I'm hoping I get to check at least one of them out we just got the subway down to Canal Street Chinatown and it's so funny because we got stopped on like a two minute walk we got stopped about 17 times people were like Gucci Soho disco bag Louis Vuitton Rolex Cartier we're like no no like I saw so many people carrying Chanel boy bags and Gucci Soho disco bags that look so realistic but I'm sorry I just don't condone a fake we've come here really quickly to make a quick pit stop to Glossier why are we um who what are we doing we're gonna die trying to cross the road here in New York oh I'm just in the hotel lobby and I'm with Lorna from Elsie's Closet. We just met up for a complimentary wine hour. We've had a couple of wines. It's so nice to finally meet you in person. We've been following each other for years. It's been about three years, I think, at least, that we've been on Snapchat following each other. And it's just really nice to meet people in person. It's been really good. But I think Jess and I are going to head out for dinner soon. We've had some really good restaurant recommendations. Probably more than we can handle for less than 24 hours left in New York. But we're going to Mole in West Village tonight for dinner. Oh wow, look at this unflattering light in the lift. I look so tired today. It was so nice to meet Lorna. We've been talking about meeting up ever since we first booked our flights to New York. We didn't think it would happen, so I invited her back to a complimentary wine hour at our hotel. Jess has been in the room and I haven't got a key, so hopefully... Hello. So hungry. It was so nice to meet her. We just had so much to talk about. Two hours flew by. Yeah, it was really good. We need to pack up this mess that is our room. We've got stuff everywhere. She's given me a really good recommendation for a Mexican restaurant. She's like, you have to go there. I would not steer you wrong. You just have to. It's one of the best Mexicans. And it was so funny because me and Jess have been talking about having Mexican food for a few days now. We're like, how can we be in New York and not have Mexican? Mexican food in America is so good. It's the best. Aside from, I'm guessing, Mexico, but I've never been there. I'm so hungry. We literally just had breakfast today and now it's gone 7.30pm. But yeah, it was really nice to meet her. I'm so happy I have a new friend in New York. We tried to do some really awkward boomerangs in the hotel lobby. And there was this really cute girl, because the minute I pulled out my vlogging camera, this little girl that was with her family saw me vlogging. And then she came up to us and she was like, are you guys vloggers? Because we were walking around the hotel trying to take a good boomerang, but the lighting wasn't that great and we just didn't really know what to do with the boomerang once we didn't have a drink in our hands because normally we just do a cheers. And I was like, yeah, I'm a YouTuber. She was like, can I have your YouTube channel? And I was like, I'm not famous, but yeah, sure. It was really awkward. She was really cute. Anyway, I think we're going to get ready and go for dinner, because you must be hungry as well, right, Jess? Yep. Where are you? I'm getting hungry, yeah, definitely. Oh, I'm so hungry. I'm so tired. We only had one. I thought you had two glasses. I didn't go downstairs. No. You had two glasses each, didn't you? No. Really? We got a table that only had two empty glasses. Oh, right. Yeah, we only had one, but then Jess brought me a wine back up. I was like, oh, look, I have a glass of wine. Ta-da. I'm going to get ready, and then we're going to go for dinner. We're now in the West Village. We've just come to Mole on Lorna's recommendation. I'm excited for the guacamole. Apparently that's the one thing you have to have. It's so chilly. OK, it's a little bit too dark to see, but apparently that guacamole is the best guacamole ever. Look at how many chips you get with it. Oh, damn. That was a good meal time. It was nice. Jess, can you roll me home after Mole? Oh, that was- I just can't even function. That food was- I'm standing outside someone's air conditioning. That food was incredible. Wasn't it, Jess? Yeah. Did you like it? It was really good food, yeah. I'm tempted to say it was the best guacamole I've ever had, but I kind of- It's in the top two guacamoles I've ever had. And that's a big statement, isn't it? Because I love avocados. I love guacamole. I mean, I wouldn't really be a proper blogger if I didn't, let's be honest. But the best guacamole I've ever had, from what I remember, four years ago in Miami, was this random restaurant we went to. I have no idea what it's called. I have a weird feeling it's actually called Mole, but it isn't a chain. It wasn't the same one as this. But this one was a very close second. I'm sorry, but the UK cannot do guacamole. Did you like your enchiladas? It was nice, lovely food, yeah. It was quite a big meal. We're now walking around the West Village. Oh, it's our last day. I'm so sad. We've just checked out of the hotel, but we don't have to leave any time soon because we haven't got a flight to catch because we're going to New Jersey today, which is exciting, but it's not as exciting as New York, obviously. We're just walking down to Grand Central Station, but we're going to make a pit stop at Starbucks to grab a coffee first. Then we're going to go to Bluestone Lane Cafe, which Lorna recommended to me yesterday, but we're going to go to the one on the Upper East Side because we haven't been to Central Park yet, and it'd be quite nice to go today because it's a really nice sunny day, isn't it? Yep. I am starving, though, but she said they do really good avocado toast, and apparently we have to get the banana bread to share. Oh, I just don't want to leave New York. Oh, ----, there's a dog. Oh, my God. There's so many dogs in New York. People love their dogs here. What would you do if I stayed and left you here? No. What would you do if I stayed and not left you here? I don't want to leave New York. Like, it's never a good time to leave New York. You can't show people, they're never going to know what you're scared of. No. We got the express train to the Upper East Side, and it is so peaceful here. It's really, really beautiful. Everyone has a dog around here, which is quite funny. We're going to go to Bluestone Lane, which I think should be coming up. It's a few blocks away, and then we're going to go to Central Park. Check out this view. Oh, my gosh. It was so nice, wasn't it? A few Bluestone Lane cafes dotted around Manhattan, but this was supposed to be the nicest one because it's, like, inside a church or something, and the service was so good as well. It was a little bit crammed in there. We didn't get the nicest of tables. It was quite difficult to, like, vlog and take photos and stuff like that, but I'm definitely not complaining. The food was amazing. I'm absolutely stuffed, but now we're crossing the road and going to Central Park. Oh, I love this place. It's so pretty. I can't believe I'm having such a bad hair day on my last day in New York. We're in Central Park trying to take some photos, and, oh, this hair is just not cooperating. We're walking back towards 86th Street and Lexington. We'll get the subway back to Grand Central and then go to New York Public Library, right? Yep. Hopefully, it's not too dark to take some shots outside the public library, and then we're going to leave, unless you will cry, all the way to New Jersey. Where? Hey, look at me. That's my hair. We're leaving New York. I'm really sad. Yep, leaving New York. We just wheeled our suitcases all the way to Grand Central Station. Yeah. We're going to get on the coach to Newark Airport because we're off to New Jersey, and we're picking up a rental car from Newark Airport, and our hotel's not far from there, right? Yep, it's not too far. Are you looking forward to driving? Kind of. I need to start, you know, get used to driving again on this side of the road. I can't even see you. Yeah. So, we're just waiting for the bus. We just missed one, but look at how much luggage we have. We've got this. This was actually inside that suitcase, and we've got that big one. Where's it gone? The one with the moon would have been funny on it. Oh, there's a big red one there. We bought that in New Jersey last time, actually, and the wheels on that are broken, so as long as we get there in one piece, we won't have to dump it and buy a new one. We have so much stuff with us, and we haven't even done half our shopping yet, but I'm going to end this vlog now. I'm really sad. I hate leaving New York. I'm crying on the inside, Jess. Don't worry. It's all right. Anyway, please make sure you're subscribed to my channel to watch our New Jersey vlogs when they go up. I think there'll only be one for New Jersey, but I really hope you enjoyed watching this one and the one before. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you next time. Bye.