NYC was a big trip for us. We celebrated our 5 year anniversary this past May and decided not to do anything at the time. However, Oct 17, 2009 actually marks 10 years since we started dating so we combined the two anniversaries and tried to celebrate big. I love you Celice, and I must admit I love you more today than when we first got married. Now onto the stuff I'm sure you are more interested in reading about.
We had to leave the house about 515am on Thursday. When we got there we were able to check-in. Had a really nice king corner room 18 floors high with huge windows on 2 walls. Then we walked around and had to get to our Letterman tickets, actually got front row seating!! It was wet and cold that day, but thankfully the rain stopped for the most part after Thursday. Letterman took the better part of that day. We got changed and went to some really too fancy for me kind of dinner at 21 Club. Coat and tie required sort of thing, but at least the portions weren't tiny! Dinner went from about 8pm-1030/1045 when we finally left.
Friday we bought subway passes and headed down to Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty. That took several hours so then just walked around in South Manhattan all day, this is the financial area with wall street and Ground Zero and all that. Lots of really, really old churches that have been around since pre-1800s even.
Saturday we walked around shopping all day, up and down 5th Ave, in which we passed Rockefeller Center. It was exhausting but then I was able to score us some game 2 ALCS Yankee tickets. We were in left field about 6 rows up, actually in front of the bleachers. The best seats I have ever had for any sporting event ever. The game went 13 innings and a little rain, but we still made it home about 2am!
Sunday we just walked around a lot again. Went to Bryant Park and the NY public library (which was closed), then to Grand Central, Chinatown (Celice bought a knock-off designer purse for $25), Ground Zero and then more shopping.
Monday we were flying back, but not until 8pm. So we got up early packed and had the hotel take care of our bags all day and headed up to the Empire State Building, Central Park and then the Museum of Natural History. Saw lots of dinosaur bones and stuff there, didn’t really get into the rest of it, probably because I was so exhausted. The last pic is of Carnegie Hall, which we happened to stumble into when we were trying to get back to the hotel.
We did so much it seems I'm always forgetting something when trying to remember everything we did. We walked a lot, ate a lot, and saw a lot, but still couldn't get to everything we wanted. It's really an interesting place that everyone should visit at least once if you haven't. Especially to see how authentic Chinatown is and then to see such diversity everywhere, and even in the architecture itself with some buildings hundreds of years old right next to another building 10 years old. Well, this is my longest post ever (counting the pics) so if you stuck around till the end... WHY? Just kidding, here's the mushy stuff to end with.
