Jewish Rye Bread....What Have I Been Missing Out On All These Years?!?!

So I've been in New York for a week now and loving every minute of it!! During our decent into the White Plains airport the entire landscape was white...words cannot describe how excited I was!! Everyone was calling me crazy for moving to NY in the middle of winter but with seeing snow only a handful of times in my life I was super excited. And naturally they didnt have a bridge for us to get off of the plane so we had to walk down the plane steps like you always see in the movies. Just what I wanted, to slip down the stairs or on the ice with my kitty in tow the moment I step foot onto New York soil. Luckily that did not happen!! My little boy Atilla was so well behaved on the plane and we were heading to upstate New York with my Aunt Liz to her place to settle in my little Hun. For those of you who don't know, Atilla is my kitten that I rescued back in April and is essentially my child. He is staying with my aunt until I find my own place. Her home is an animal haven so there was no place better than there for him. I ended up staying there til Wednesday both to make sure Atilla was doing ok and also to go with Aunt Liz's friend Anna to the city for her to show me around Greenwich Village. Well upstate was still virtually untouched with snow and it was just absolutely beautiful. Sunday I went for a hike with my Uncle Fred through a state park and it was the best hike I've ever been on. Everything was covered in snow or ice and there wasn't a sound except for the crunch of snow beneath our boots. On Tuesday I went our and about my aunt's town and it was 10 degrees outside, yet it felt like -6!! This Florida girl's blood still needs to be thickened up, burrrrr!!! Wednesday I was to leave my Atilla, thank goodness he made himself right at home. He loves all the windows and heights and even started to make friends with my aunts cat. The dogs not so much...We met up with my aunt's friend Anna Wednesday to head down to the Village and what a cool place!! It was like its own little place within the city. Tons of shops, restaurants, art galleries and BEAUTIFUL buildings. Definitely a place I will look into moving to when that time comes. However it was sooo cold that day that we ended up doing part of the tour in the car. We went up to the  Bronx right after to move me into my new temporary home with my Nana. The next day I met up with a friend who was visitin NYC from high school in the city so it was techincally my first day out by myself! I survived my first solo bus/subway ride as I was nervous that I had to pick it up in a sketchy part of the Bronx. Definitely not taking that route at night! We met up in Time Square and got super touristy and went to the Ripleys museum and the Empire State Building. I realized I had never been in the city at night and boy is it different! So beautiful! Atop of the now 2nd tallest buildings in NYC and seeing all the twinkling lights amd the colorfully lit buildings just made me so happy to be able to call this city my new home. The next couple of days consisted of making my business cards and part time job searching...not much excitement there! However since I live in a mostly Jewish area, there is this Jewish bakery down the street and OH MY GOD does it have the best bread ever!!!! Especially the rye bread....oh its heaven!! Never has a sandwich with just meat and cheese tasted so delicious!!!  Monday starts my internship and I just cannot wait!! It will be my first day as a New York designer :) Let's do this!!!!!