Gotta give a shout out to Matt who stayed home with my kids
so I can go on a trip with my mom without them. Although I missed them and Zion, it was heaven to go places without having to worry about them. Thanks Matt!
My mom and I took a train from Manchester to NY. A 5 hour trip and it was fun. We had lunch, and played cards, talked without kids yelling or asking for something. Weird...and nice!
I think the score is 5-6 mom, your lead. You owe me a game of Skip-bo.
The Today Show desk is behind us...check!
As we made our way into the Lego store, I was amazed.
This sign (4'x'4) is made up of lego men (and women). :)
Click on the photo to enlarge it and you can see the "people" with hats and all...amazing!
This is the dragon head (all made from legos), and the body was all around the store,
coming out from the ceiling in different parts.
A huge wall (floor to ceiling of legos)
Rockefeller Center...check!
As I went on to research something on it, I found this site.
Pretty cool to learn more about where you visited.
Indian band in the subway...check!
My moms birthday lands on the 17th (St. Patrick's Day)....and we were still in NY.
My aunt and cousin gave my mom a pedicure (scrub, lotion, massage, and paint).
She LOVED it and deserved it. :)
Mary Poppins broadway show....check!
I went in with high expectations as it's a broadway show.
It was more to me like a play I could watch in my own town....a little
disappointed but it was nice to go and see.
They changed alot of things, added things, and took things out. It was OK.
Starving one night we went in search of Carnegie Deli.
(In checking out that I spelled it right...I got to their website.)
Just look at that photo that first pops up.....it was huge. I mean HUGE! We had to split it and even then could not eat it all.
NY cheesecake is good, they also post their recipe. Wow...500 degrees, I could never bake anything with that hot of a temp.
We went to a taping of the Martha Stewart Show. Cool! It re-affirmed my thoughts of her...boring; but the show however was not. The guy in charge was pretty funny and kept all of us entertained and active/awake! We also walked away with more than $500 worth of "stuff"...cool stuff. :) A very cool pedometer, a facial scrubber, and a tool that records all of your REM sleeps along with a few other things. I was glad to carry that bag around all day.
Hanging out on the Ferry to go back home (Staten Island)
My uncle is on the left (my mom's brother), and my cousin (his daughter Jenna) in the middle.
There are always shows/movies being taped in NY.
This was just one of the three being taped in that spot that day.
We walked the whole Brooklyn bridge (Over a mile long going and then over a mile coming back). I figure we walked about 3 miles just for the bridge. The views were spectacular, and pictures just do not do it justice so I posted none.
My parents went to NY last year and saw Ground Zero, this year it was not the same.
The only piece of 9/11 was a wall mural and a few flowers. I did not feel the somberness (is that used right?) that my mom said that she felt when she was there last year. To me, it just felt like a construction zone. The building on the right is the first completed building....freedom tower.....love it. You can read more about it here.
Across from Wall Street there was the George Washington museum.
We originally went into to get warm as it was very cold that day, but it was actually very informing...I did learn things that I did not know before.
Behind us (Jenna, Tashina, and I) is the slab that G.W. stood on while making his speech.
Standing around talking about the impact that Tsunami and earthquake in Japan had on the stock market. (My mom so excited about the ticker). Behind us was a news team recording an interview about that same subject.
Click on the photo to enlarge and read what is says.
Goes with the above info.
This is the cemetery that is also at the church. This church was the church in the National Treasure movie (the first one).
These vaults/tombs as they called them were ancient.
Wall Street Bull...check!
On the ferry. Statue of Liberty (check!) behind me.
The statue of Liberty is very, very big. 305 ft. tall.
Broadway show again, Lion King. Check!
Not sure if you can see my hand in the shot as it is kind of dark, but we wanted to take a picture in front of the Lion King board. Everyone was walking in front of the camera preventing us to take one without some random person in the shot.
I had to throw my hand out and tell people to stop walking in order to take a good photo.
To be in the seats, watching the show is spectacular.
Watching this little clip is good, but not as good as actually being there. Amazing.
"Slimy, yet satisfying."
These are the steps leading up to Lion King. I took the steps.
My mom and uncle taking the escalator. :) hehehehe
My mom saw that I took the picture and walked down the
stairs and then walked back up to get more steps.
New Yorkers dump their garbage on the street daily then garbage men come and pick it up.
Weird to see garbage all over the street. I even saw people going to thru the garbage. Yuck!
Time Sqaure is well....amazing! (A car on a side of the building). A few nights we were in TS at night and even thought the sky was dark, it was like day time. Pretty cool.
NY is truly the city that never sleeps!
My mom and I made a list of things we wanted to see and do while we were on our trip in NY.
I was excited to be able to check the things off of our list when we did them.
Some of the other things included:
See a rat in the subway
Ride the subway
Almost get hit by taxis while crossing the street
Central Park
Grand Central Station
All were amazing and a ton of fun. It was a blessing to be able to spend some time with my mom and family. Love the Walkers. They were so gracious (thanks Jenna and Tashina for giving me your bed).
My mom and brother are coming back in August when the baby is born and going to take a trip to NY. So excited for Matt to be able to go there.
3 comments:
I gotta say I am so jealous of your New York trip. It looks like you guys had so much fun. I really want to go before the Walker's move. I love New York!
FUN. FUN. FUN. I am so glad you and your mom got to go. I am glad will get a fun trip there, soon. Thank you for sharing your trip with me.
Absolutely AMAZING!!!! I love the pics, and it looks like you had a blast!!! I had so much fun just going through your pics here. Thanks for sharing :)
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