Last week I had the opportunity to visit New York City. Chris went there for a job. He is a free-lance audio visual tech, and was doing a convention for the International AIDS society. I just didn't want to pass up a chance to see more of the world!
The kids went to
Richfield and stayed with my parents and had a great time.
Our flight left right around midnight, and sleeping on an airplane is not my idea of fun!
Luckly the flight was good, and I didn't have to sit by anybody too strange.
This picture is of my very first subway ride. It was about 7:30 in the morning, we hit the morning rush! There were so many people on the subway, we had to stand and hold on to the bars.
This is the famous times square sign, it's the the one that the New Year's ball drops every year. The signs that on the building earn the building more than $1,000,000,000 a year.
This is at the 3 story M&M building. Everything sold there is M&M themed. This is just one wall of candy you could buy (if you wanted to pay $11.99 a pound). They had every color imaginable!
This is our second subway ride. It was right after we bought my bag and
pashmina at canal street. I didn't buy a knock-off designer bag, but I did get a pretty great one. We rode in a taxi down to canal street and I was scared for my life. Our driver almost hit a pedestrian! New York drivers a so much crazier than Salt Lake drivers, and that's saying a lot.
This is the view from our hotel room. We stayed at the
Marriot Marquee, right on Times Square. Our room was on the 41st floor. It was a really nice room, the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in.
We went out on the town for a few hours before we went to bed (Chris had to be to the convention at 2am to get things set up so he needed sleep, especially since the night before was spent on the plane). We went to dinner at an Italian restaurant that had great ambiance, great service, but really crappy food. Then we just wandered around. This is me and my new bag.
I went to the Toys "R" Us at Times Square, it was so big it had a
ferris wheel in it! This Lego sculpture wasn't life size, but it was really big. They also had an Empire State Building with King Kong on it.
On Friday, I went on a bus tour. I wish I would have bought my ticket the day before because I just ran out of time and didn't see everything I wanted to see. This picture is of the Empire State building. I went on the down town tour and saw so many cool things. I wanted to go to Ellis Island and see the Statue of Liberty, but again, I ran out of time. I did see the fashion district, Rockefeller Center, Chinatown, Soho, Little Italy, Wall Street, Ground Zero, Central Park, The United nations,
and where lots of famous people lived or had lived, where movies were made and more than I can even remember. I would really like to go back someday and actually
go into some of these places I saw. It was a great vacation.
Juniors has the BEST cheesecake I have ever eaten.
