New York Bucket List

Whilst I'm living in New York City for just a year and as a very financially challenged intern, there are certain iconic moments that need to be taken in and by extension some I may need your help with.  So scroll down, take a look and either follow me along for this ride or pipe up if you know how I can make some of the more impossible happen.  As the year continues I'm sure I'll be adding to my New York Bucket List.

In no particular order the list is as follows...

• Party with Mack at Macauley Culkin's iPod - CHECK, more to come on this...
• Play chess in Union Square
• Learn how to play chess so I can fulfil the above activity
• Play music on the BIG Piano in FAO Schwarz from the movie BIG - CHECK
• Walk in Central Park in the snow
• Drag a Christmas tree home like they do in the movies
• Eat lunch in Katz's Diner, where Sally fakes an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally
• Get a photo with Macauley Culkin, with all of us, including him slapping our faces as in Home Alone
• Interview Patricia Field for the blog
• Date in New York City - to be continued...
• Visit an art exhibition in the middle of the night
• Go for coffee in a diner at 3am
• Work a Fashion Show - CHECK
• Attend a show at New York Fashion Week
• Go to the top of the Empire State Building on Valentines Day night
• Visit the Hamptons for the weekend - who has a house and wants to put me up????
• Go to the Barefoot Contessa deli in the Hamptons
• Cook in Ina's kitchen - Ina, how good would that be? *winky face*...if you think it would be great then make it happen!
• Drink coffee out of those little blue greek-esque paper cups they always drink coffee out of in movies and tv shows - watching Carrie Bradshaw do it right now!
• See the ball drop on NYE in Times Square
• Perform in a play
• See the Wooster Group perform (I co-wrote and performed in a play with one of their former performers whilst at University)
• Perform in a Wooster Group performance - Yo Wooster Group, where you at?  Help me out - you won't regret!!!
• Eat in Chinatown at 4am - CHECK
• Eat Pizza at Mystic Pizza in Mystic, just like I'm in the movie Mystic Pizza - technically this is not NY but sssshhhhh!
• Take part in an Improv Everywhere 'performance'
• Stay for one night in a suite at The Plaza just like Kevin McAllister/Mack in Home Alone: Lost in New York, I've been obsessed with the cookies etc in the mini bar from that film since FOREVER - ps this I DEFINITELY need help/your charity for
• Go vintage store shopping with the Olsen Twins - yep you guessed it....HELP PLEASE
• Be in a Woody Allen Movie - Woody I'm not even going to be picky I'm happy to be just an extra but yes I am a Diane Keaton if you happened to be looking for the next one...
• Visit as many outdoor markets as possible - working on it!
• Carriage ride through Central Park in the snow
• Kick leaves in the Fall in Central Park
• Date a Celebrity - just the one date will suffice...just because...
• Have breakfast at Tiffany's
• Visit the Christmas Tree at the Rockefeller Center
• Do yoga in Bryant Park with the hundred other women doing 'downward dog' on a thursday evening
• Walk in a parade - CHECK
• Do something with Sarah-Jessica Parker...ANYTHING...SJP did you hear that ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, no matter how inconsequential

USA bucket list...for those things that NYC just can't provide for me...

• Martha's Vineyard
• Eat nectarines in Nantucket...just because the names sound kind of similar
• Eat a lobster dinner in Maine at a seaside restaurant
• Sail on a boat on Cape Cod...all you boat owners don't rush at once...
• Mardi Gras in New Orleans
• Make snow angels and throw ball in the snow at Harvard just like Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neill do in Love Story
• Send me someone awesome to do the above with
• Go to Wilmington, North Carolina...Why? Because that's where Joey and Pacey fell in love - duh!!!
• Visit Yale so I can see where Rory Gilmore went to school....so lame
• Visit Hartford CT so I can be even more Gilmore Girl-esque
• Drink coffee in Seattle
• Visit Salem, MA at Halloween
• See the Home Alone house in Chicago
• Do the celebrity houses tour in LA
• Go to watch a Red Sox game at Fenway Park

Thank you for reading and thanks in advance for helping me out.....RIGHT????!!!!!

For those able to help the impossible become possible for this British Girl's year in New York City, email toelleandback@yahoo.co.uk