Our NYC Story: Day 6 & 7

Wednesday, April 29th:
Today the high speed vacation started catching up to us. We felt like we had been walking everywhere (which we pretty much had) and were starting to wear down. We had gotten up early everyday and got back to the hotel late every night.

We started the day by grabbing breakfast at a little bakery and taking a walk through central park.

I love this view of the park with the buildings in the background.

Here is Bethesda Fountain that is always in the movies involving Central Park. We had a nice walk through the park to our next destination.

We spent the rest of the morning at the LDS Temple in Manhattan. It was so nice and quiet inside it didn't feel like you were in the city at all (it is located right across from Lincoln Center).

This is the Natural History Museum (like from "Night at the Museum"). Our plan was to go here next, but we were getting really tired.

So instead we decided to just go to the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and call it a day.

They had this cool Temple and lots of Egyptian mummies and artifacts.

Kyle's favorite part was the armor room. Lots of swords and suits of armor.
After the Met, we went back to the hotel early (6 pm) and got room service. It was so nice to get some rest.

Thursday April 30th

We spent most of the day on the subway today. We took a 2 hour trip to Brooklyn to go to Coney Island.

Of course we had to have a famous Nathan's hotdog. It was good.
Coney Island was pretty empty. We walked on the boardwalk and out to the pier. It was a cold morning.

Here is the famous Cyclone roller coaster. It was closed. Actually, almost everything is closed until Memorial Day.

Then we took the subway over to the Brooklyn Bridge. We walked over it to the Manhattan side.

Here I am looking over the traffic under me on the bridge.

Then we went back to our hotel ( 2 hours) and changed for our night out. Then we went back into Manhattan (1 hour each way) to eat dinner and go to the Lion King on Broadway. It was an excellent show! Really amazing.

Another great day in NYC!

Our NYC Story: Day 5

Tuesday, April 28

Today we spent most of the day at the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island, Intrepid Air Museum and the night bus tour.

This statue is in battery park where we caught the boat out to the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island. It used to stand in the World Trade Center and now stands as a symbol of the tragedy there on 9/11/2001.We took the boat out to the Statue of Liberty. We went up to the base (right under the feet) of the statue and into the museum there. It was awesome!

This is the boat we took out there. It was a beautiful day for a boat ride.

A lady took our picture together while we were at the Statue of Liberty.
This is Ellis Island. We went inside and learned alot through the museum. We were probably out in the New York Harbor for about 5 hours. It was worth it though, if you have the time.

This is Lombardi's Pizza in Little Italy. It is the oldest pizzaria in New York, established in 1905. The pizza was pretty good, but I think I just don't like NY style pizza as much as others.

This is the Intrepid, a retired air craft carrier with an air, space and sea museum inside. This was Kyle's favorite place we went. They had tons of planes and military stuff inside.
Here is Kyle trying out the medivac chopper like the ones on MASH.

On the night tour we went by this mural on the side of the building. The guide said that it was a law somewhere that they couldn't remove or paint over this mural because it has the twin towers in it. Who knows?

We started the night tour before it got dark. It took us through Manhatten and over to Brooklyn. Here are some signs from Chinatown. It is like you aren't even in the US overthere.

Another great day in NYC.

Our NYC Story: Day 4

Monday April 27th-
Today we spent most of the day on a hop off/ hop on tour bus. We saw uptown and downtown. Lots of pictures, so I'll give you the highlights.


Grand Central Station. We took the subway here to check it out and have breakfast.


Here is the bus we hopped on and off of all day. If you got the right seat on the top you could get a wonderful view of the city.

Taxi cabs everywhere!

This is the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Largest gothic style cathedral in the world.

A walk through central park. It was a warm day and there were lots of sunbathers.

You can't go to NYC and not go to FAO Schwartz. It was really cool!

They had lots of figures made of legos. I thought the boys would really like this Darth Vader one. Amazing!

Here is the "Big" piano.

Here is the United Nations Building. There are only flags up when they are in session.

We went to the Macy's on 34th Street. We didn't buy anything though.

Today we went up to the top of the Empire State Bldg.

Here is the view from the top. (one of them)

We went to this comedy club for entertainment and dinner. It was okay, but not our best entertainment or dinner this week.

Times Square at night. It was amazing and crazy. This is just the tip of the ice burg.

Another great day in NYC.

Our NYC Story: Day 3

Today was our first real day in the City. Our first job was to figure out the subway system so we could get around. Luckily it was Sunday so it wasn't as busy for our first day. That helped alot.
Here is Kyle checking out the subway map while we wait. Our stop for the hotel was the Mets stop (Citi Field).

Here is the new Citi Field in Queens. They already tore the old Shea Stadium down.

We took the Subway to Times Square. We went here almost every morning and it took about an hour everyday.

In Times Square we hopped on our 5 hour bus tour we had scheduled. We had a great tour guide and learned alot about the city. I took so many pictures I would bore you to death if I put them all here.

One of the first stops was the Dakota Building where John Lennon lived and died and where Yoko Ono still lives.

Across the street from the Dakota Building is the Strawberry Fields part of Central Park, where this imagine mosaic was made to memorilize John Lennon.

This is the Flat Iron Building.

I took this picture of the Brooklyn Bridge from our stop at Pier 17.

We took a ride on the Staton Island Ferry, where we got our first close up look of the Statue of Liberty.

Here we are on the ferry.

Wall Street and the NY Stock Exchange. There were lots of buildings I took pictures of in the financial district.

Here is the Ground Zero Site. They have started working on the new buildings and now call it the "Former World Trade Center Site". That was a very emotional part of the tour.

Rockefeller Center.

Here is the view of Central Park and lots of buildings from the "Top of the Rock" on the 80-something floor of Rockefeller Center.

After our 5 hour tour, we were back in Times Square for the evening. We roamed around, shopped and ate "the best cheesecake in NYC" at Juniors. It was pretty good.

We went into the Toys R Us store in Times Square which has a ferris wheel inside it. It had lots of fun stuff and I know the boys would have loved it.

That was our first crazy day and we were exhausted! What a great day!

Our NYC Story: Day 2

Today we left for NYC. We took an American Airlines flight to La Guardia via a 1 hour layover in DFW. We ate lunch at the USO while we waited. We landed in NYC at about 6 pm.

I didn't take many pictures today because we were mostly just traveling.
Here is our hotel for the week: Crowne Plaza La Guardia in Queens. It was a nice hotel and we ate dinner in the lounge that night and just relaxed.

Our NYC Story: Day 1

Our first day of the trip was Friday April 24th. We spent the day traveling to and staying in Albuquerque with the kids. We went to the childrens museum there.

The kids had a great time exploring the museum.

They have a place where you can play on the roof and build houses with these wood planks. Here is the one they built.

Landon playing the piano.

Here is the big boys showing the little boys how to fly the airplane.

Mom and boys at the piano.

We stayed at a hotel that night where Chris (Kyle's dad), Andrea (Cory's wife) and her baby Emma met us. We all stayed at the hotel and left the next morning. They dropped us off at the airport and they went back to Cortez.

We're Back!

We got back last night from our New York Trip. I will try to post everything in the next couple of days. We came back to a plumbing problem, so we are staying at a hotel in town until in the morning when it should be fixed. After that we should be able to get back into our routine again.