New York Memoir!

New York Memoir: By: Caysi Simpson

            The bustling streets, the car horns honking, calls of “TAXI!” echoed out of different people’s mouths. I gawked at New York City in daze. I suddenly felt smaller than I usually did.

            I hightailed forward to catch up with my mom, afraid to lose her and the rest of my family on the crowded sidewalks of New York City. There were so many neon signs flashing OPEN, so many stores and restaurants, so many people…

I was overwhelmed by it all. Never before had I been to such a busy place.

            We spent a majority of the trip walking to new spots sightseeing. There were a lot of skyscrapers, but the biggest building of all was the Empire State Building, reaching around 381 meters!!!!!  At the time though, I was around 9/10 years old, I wasn’t really impressed by a building. It was REALLY tall building, that’s all I was sure of at the time. The thing that impressed me was the Toys R Us store, which had a ferris wheel INSIDE the store!!! And about 3 different levels filled with nothing but toys!  It was kid heaven!

            Of course I couldn’t spend the whole time there, so I followed my family to more buildings, not much impressed by them and continually complaining about how much my feet hurt. I was thankful when I got to sit in a car and rest my sore feet for a while. When we got back to St. Cloud, I realized that the place I once thought was so big, was really quite small compared to New York City.