How was New York? What did you do??

sorry for the delay

How was NYC you ask?? Well, let me start by saying that it was AMAZING!!! We had the best time and we did not want to come back. Words cannot describe and pictures cannot even tell what a great and unforgetable time we had. We arrived in NYC around 1:30 in the morning on Sunday technically, we checked into our "okay" hotel and were starving, luckily for us, our hotel was just 1/2 a block from Times Square. Times Square, at 1:30am was as hoping and bright as ever. The streets were packed, families with their bright eyed kids were exploring the stores, the street performers were in full swing. We were shocked. We knew that NYC was the "city that never sleeps" but goodness! Needless to say we had no problem finding us some food. We went to bed and woke the next day at noon (oops!), but since they are 3 hours ahead over there it was really only 9am for us. So we didn't feel too bad. We got ready and walked out our hotel and there was a hige Street Market happening. It was amazing! Lots of cheap jewlery and good food, all the "I heart NY" t-shirts for sale, and really anything you could want. We enjoyed that. From there, our vacation really began and we were ready to "Do New York".

This may or may not be of interest to you, but I thought I would give you a quick run down of what our days held. You can skip onto the pictures if you'd rather but here are the main events of our week in NYC:

Day 1:
-Guggenheim Museum
-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park
-Walk around Midtown and saw Rockefeller Centre, NBC Studios, St Barts Cathedral
-Had Thai food for dinner
-Explored Times Square and went to the Hershey Store & Virgin Records

Day 2:
-Walked to the Hudson River
-Went to Ground Zero (World Trade Centre Site)
-Saw the Chrysler Building
-Went to Grand Central Station
-New York Public Library (sadly, they were closed the day we went)
-Had dinner in Little Italy
-Dessert in Times Square

Day 3:
-Saw some of the Today Show
-Dean & Deluca coffee shop
-Cirlce line tour (a 3 hour boat tour around manhattan)
-Stood in the TKTS line and got tickets to see The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
-Had Appetizers and martinis at a pub
-Went to The Phantom of the Opera (amazing!)
-Hung out inTimes Square some more
-Went to Jamba Juice (we went probably 5 or 6 times while we were there)

Day 4:
-Empire State Building (waited in line for 2 hours)
-Shopped at the 4 story Old Navy
-Hung out in Grennwich Village, saw NYU
-Saw RENT on Broadway (holy crap...amazing!)

Day 5:
-Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
-Switched hotels and moved to the Upper Westside
-Went to the Seinfeld Restaurant
-Walked around Columbia University Campus
-Riverside Park at 91st Street
-Rain storm!!!!!
-Had dinner at Manhattan diner (across the street from our hotel)
-Went to Stand-Up NY (a comedy club)

Day 6:
-Went to The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
-Lunch at Gray's Papaya
-Explored Central Park (walked around a bit and rode bikes all through it)
-Went to Zabar'a (a famous little grocery store on the Upper Westside)
-Our last night out and we went to a fancy Italian dinner at 'Cesca

Day 7:
-Rolled out of bed and had breakfast at Cafe Lalo
-Walked around the neighborhood
-Checked out of our hotel
-Hopped on the subway and went to Yankee Stadium
-Spent the afternoon with the Yankees and the Angels
-Went to "Big Nick's" for dinner (their menu is 27 pages long!)
-Rode the subway allllllll the way to JFK
-Goodbye NYC :(

We did a lot and feel like we were able to do everything we wanted to do. People have asked what our favourite part of our trip was and I would have to say that seeing the shows on Broadway were one of the most amazing things I have seen in my life. I only wish we could have seen more than 2. Our other favourite was the 3 hour boat tour around Manhattan. We were able to see so much of Manhattan and learn tons and interesting facts and it was very much worth every minute and every dollar.

While we were there, we took over 750 pictures and that doesn't even include what we haven't gotten developed from our "real" camera. I figured most people probably don't want to see all 750 of our digital pics (except maybe my mom, and you Shell), so I made a very much abridged version of 102 pics for my blog. If you have any desire at all to see more pics of a certain event, then feel free to let me know and I am happy to e-mail you more pics. Anyway, as always, you can find the pics on my picture blog. ENJOY!!