NYC highlights: 🪄Books Are Magic: my favorite bookstore of the trip! Owned by author Emma Straub!  🎭Hadestown on Broadway  🎄Picking out Christmas gifts at Catbird (my fav jewelry!)  🍪Cookie taste testing at Culture Espresso (get the korn cookie!)  🎅🏼Shopping at Union Square holiday market 🎂Party bus around the city for my sister’s 30th! 📖Finding signed copies of Margaret Atwood & Lin-Manuel Miranda’s books! 🥞Drag brunch bingo at The Dickens! ☕️Ariston Flowers & Cafe: the most festive coffee shop I’ve ever seen!  📓Goods for the study: a journal & pen lover’s dream! ✍🏼Greenwich Letter Press: most unique gifts & also fun stationery supplies  🍸Book Bar!!! You mean there is a place where I can sit and read my book at a bar?!  🍕Norma’s - gluten free pasta & pizza!!  📚Strand Bookstore- over 2.5 million books!  🎙️Renting a room for a night of singing at Beats Karaoke Cafe