T3B17 (Part 2 of Spring Break)

Welcome to New York, it's been waiting for you, welcome to New York...

The first thing that greeted me at the New York Airport was this sign:

XP I think New York and Taylor Swift are probably doing some sort of collaboration (because her song is called "Welcome to New York"). There's even a website: www.nycgo.com/w2ny

We only stayed about half a day in New York, because we've been before, and we did a lot of our sightseeing before. We shopped a little in Times Square and I was SOOOOO excited because there was a Muji store in Times Square! *cue the squealing noises XP*

Muji is a Japanese dollar store and they sell EVERYTHING.  (Like, literally. Everything. http://www.muji.com/us/ ) But, most popular among us students, is their famed Gel Ink Pens.

They are so smooth. Like seriously. Erica and Margo could tell you that I'm way too obsessed with stationery, but they are really nice. It's a gel-based ink, which means it's much smoother than ballpoint (although I bought one of those too, because I thought I'd try it out. Melody has one, and I tried it the other day, and it was pretty good.) So anyways, I was browsing on the Times Square shop list website: http://www.timessquarenyc.org/shopping/index.aspx#.VQxf8UswhuY and I saw Muji on the list and my eyes pretty much popped out of my head. I think Muji's US stores only opened last year August or something (I searched it up later) and previously only had stores in Japan. AND THEY HAD ONE IN TIMES SQUARE AND I LITERALLY JUST OMG OMG OMG.

Okay done, moving on.

So we walked to the Muji store, which took a little bit of time to find because it was actually in the New York Times building (BTW calling their line actually said where the entrance was, so now I actually know that calling can be useful. Because before, I always thought calling was kind of a hassle, but now I know it isn't :) ). And then I bought a lot of pens XP.

That was pretty much the highlight of NY. And I bought some clothes. :D (And I bought Mickey and Minnie at a Disney outlet in Chicago and a T-shirt at the Times Square Disney, because I am a Disney lover.)

SOOOO, that was New York in a nutshell! (A disproportionately large nutshell, considering the time I spent there... but I just had to rave about Muji. Had to.)

**Also, I think Muji will be opening stores across Canada soon! Actually, the first retail opened in December 2014, I think, in Toronto's Atrium on Bay, and Muji plans to open up to 7, one of which is rumoured to be in Vancouver! :D http://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2014/11/muji-new