Thursday September 12th: We arrived in New York and to our hotel around 11:30, and it was wonderful. We stayed at the Hotel Edison and the next time I go to New York I will still choose to stay there. Some cool background information on the hotel: It is a historic building (they are renovating it currently) it was built in 1931. Thomas Edison himself turned on the lights when it opened. We had a very early flight---that was also delayed a bit, so we were quite exhausted. Our adrenaline ended up keeping us going. We walked to Central Park which was not far from where we were staying.
Unfortunately, after this ride we became completely soaked in a down pour. As much as I didn't like getting soaked it was an exciting experience to walk in the park and see some amazing sights. I mean how can I complain about the rain with this insight:
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We rode the carousel in Central Park!
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| YAY! Felt like a kid again. |
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| Baseball game in Central Park |
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| Taking a stroll in the park! |
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| Everything was so green and beautiful |
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| Still looked cool, even with gloomy clouds |
After taking shelter under some trees and then running a ways to a tunnel, we were out of the rain. After awhile the rain subsided and we ventured back out towards our hotel to dry off. We stopped at a food truck on the outskirts of the park. We each got a hot dog, that was a cheap price of $2. Unfortunately, Jenny found something hard near the end of her hot dog and it kind of ruined the whole hot dog cart experience. Jenny never got a hot dog again (I did, on the statue of liberty ferry).
We took tours on double decker busses on Friday and on Saturday. One tour brought us through upper manhattan and the second brought us through lower manhattan. Our third tour we took was the Brooklyn tour, these tours you could hop off and hop back on at another stop. It was a great way for easy transportation and I enjoyed learning the historical aspects of NYC. ($59 for a 48 hour pass that took us everywhere we wanted to go!). The other tour we took was the night tour, it took us all around downtown manhattan and through Brooklyn. This night one was not a hop on hop off tour, and it was two hours long(More about this later!).
Here are just some random pics from various days of the gorgeous city that never sleeps!
Night Tour: Friday September 13th, 2013
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| Before the tour, when we weren't FREEZING. |
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| Being silly, because I can |
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| Disney! So bright and cute |
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| Empire. |
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| Pretty Skyline |
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Flushed, wind burned, and freezing.
It turned out to be windy, and probably low 50's
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Various pictures from our day trips and outings:
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| Biggest H&M I've ever seen |
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| VS <3 |
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The United States Postal Office---its not filled with a lot because of the lack
of snail mail sent throughout the US today. |
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| Penn Station |
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| High Rise. |
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| Ready for our day tour! |
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| Loved this view |
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| Brooklyn |
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| Manhattan Bridge |
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| This is the building Spiderman climbed up |
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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Near The Hard Rock Cafe
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The thing about New York is the city really does not sleep. It sucked us in very quickly and welcomed us wonderfully. We had late nights every night without even realizing. We accomplished so much and we're so fortunate to do what we did. We planned so many things to do but didn't get all done because of time constraints. Turns out, it takes a lot longer to walk 12 blocks than we had originally thought. Who woulda thought?! haha! Or that taking the tour double decker bus, takes a lot longer than taking the easy subway!
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| Single Ride Metro Card: $2.75 one way |
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| Busy subway during the afternoon |
That's all for now folks! I'm in the process of putting together one more post about our exciting events that occurred. Pictures to come: Grand Central Station, Statue of Liberty, our GMA appearance, and some awesome people and things we met and saw.
