NYC

Back in September, my brother Josh came all the way out to the east coast for a business trip in NYC.  I got to go up and stay with him, see the city (again), and see a good friend. Since I've seen many of the typical tourist sites before, I ended up spending a lot of time on this trip just wandering around the city.  It was really fun to just walk and watch and enjoy having free time.  Unfortunately, the first day I was there, I was walking down the street and taking pictures (cool buildings, a random dance performance in the middle of....some random place [it looked like it was for a class] etc.) except, whoops! I set it down and alas, my camera is now gone. I'm really sad about it- more now than I even was then- so I only got a few pictures.  What I did get to see was the Staten Island Ferry (which is a beautiful ride in the evening!), the Empire State building (it was the third time that I had gone, but the first time at night and the first time that Josh had ever been up), the Natural History Museum, an Asian cooking competition in Times Square, Battery Park, and a really really sketchy part of Queens.  Josh and I also got tickets to go see Mary Poppins which was so much fun. I love Broadway! And it was simply fabulous to be able to see Josh again.  Hooray for family and fun cities.

Anyway, it was a fun, relaxing trip, with a lot of blisters from walking, and some good memories.  PLUS one of the things on my list of things to do while I'm 27 was to explore NYC, so there ya go! One more check off the list!

This is a video of a...thing I found in Battery Park.  Literally I was just walking with my friend when all the sudden I heard bells. And what do you know? They were coming from my feet!  SOOOOO cool. I want one of these. I took a picture of the square that told who the guy was who invented it because I decided that he is brilliant!

This is my friend Chaya.  She and I wandered around Battery Park and rode the Staten Island Ferry. PLUS we played on the playground.  Good stuff.

The Natural History Museum, the exhibit about relative sizes!

This is the Toys R Us at Times Square.  It's AMAZING! and HUGE.  This dinosaur MOVES. And there is a lego land, and a farris wheel, I love that place. I love toys! Good thing I get to play with them at work.

Ah chocolate! Need I say more? Happiness. :)

The first time that I went to New York was in the summer of 2001.  It was just a few month before the attack on the WTC and when I went back in 2004 we went to Ground Zero and saw the makeshift memorials and sang (it was a choir trip).  It was really touching to go back this time and see the memorial that is set up and the rebuilding that has happened.  It is a beautiful, peaceful place and will be even more so when they finish the museum and other buildings on the property.  I had lots of thoughts while I was there, but that's all I'll share for now.

At some point I realized that I didn't have a single picture of me and Josh. So we remedied that!