New York, New York Part II

Tuesday 03/16/2010

--we went to Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. That took most of the day because we waited in line to get on the boat, to get in the statue of liberty, to get back on the boat to go to Ellis Island, and then at Ellis Island to go back.

--when we got back we stayed around Battery Park and watched some kind of cool/kind of lame street performers

--we walked around Wall Street...that's kind of all you can do there

--went to the World Trade Center site and saw a neat site: lots of army men waiting around before getting deployed. I had heard from a lot of people that seeing the WTC wasn't all that great because it was just a bunch of construction but seeing those service men sitting there and being near that site was a neat experience. It was hard not to get a tiny bit emotional.

--went to Chinatown for dinner...kind of a scary place at night if you've never been there (which we hadn't yet)

On the ferry out to Liberty Island

She was beautiful :)



















The subway became our best friend--I was a little nervous at first to use it but we took it all over the place

Someday I'll finish blogging about New York...

New York, New York Part I

We went to New York City for a whole week for spring break and it was great. Instead of posting one big long annoying post I'm going to break it up into sections.

Here's a quick summary of the first few days:

Saturday 03/13/10


--we flew into New York and had the worst turbulence I've ever experienced in my life. We couldn't even see the ground until we actually hit the ground which I started thinking would never happen.
--we got to our hotel, were pleasantly surprised with how nice it was
--we went out for a bite to eat and decided we'd have pizza. It was expensive but delicious


Sunday 03/14/2010

--woke up and had no hot water
--we took our first taxi ride to the bus station then realized we could have walked it was so close. 10 blocks is a lot closer than I thought. oh well, we had to do a taxi ride at least once!

--took a bus to the Newark airport, rented a car and drove around Jersey visiting people from Steven's mission (he served in the New Jersey Morristown mission, Spanish speaking, from Oct '03 -Oct '05). We had lots of fun visiting people. Wait, I take that back-STEVEN had lots of fun visiting because he could actually understand what they were saying :o I just sat and looked like i knew what they were saying. Just kidding...sometimes they could speak English so that was fun

--The roads in Jersey are RIDICULOUS and I really don't know how people live there. That first day there made me really count my blessings and made me LOVE Arizona more than I already do

--On Sunday I got to experience Dominican food, peruvian food and something else but I can't remember right now what it was. It was all delicious and I had what seemed like 5 dinners that day (not really but close)


03/15/10

--we woke up to no hot water...again. Steven went and talked to the manager who gave us free breakfast for our entire stay which ended up being worth about $250 but I think a hot shower would have been better

--we rode the subway for the very first time. I was very nervous at first, not for safety reasons but sometimes I'm claustrophobic and I was worried that being underground would freak me out. It was cake and very fun.

--we went to the American Museum of Natural History and we were bored to tears. It's really just a bunch of stuffed animals so we left.

--we walked through central park for the first time even though it was a bit cold and rainy. It was still fun

--we visited Grand Central Station and did the whispering thing (if you don't know what it is, just look it up--I don't feel like explaining it right now). I loved the architecture and everything about it.

-St. Patrick's Cathedral was AWESOME. Some stuff was a little creepy but for the most part it was such a gorgeous building

--we walked down 5th avenue by all the fancy-schmancy shops and stopped in Tiffany's...of course. I was too afraid to ask to try on any of the jewelry but it was still fun to see how ridiculously huge some of those diamonds were!

--we ate expensive (wait, it's New York, isn't everything expensive??) but really good Chinese food

--the water in New York is surprisingly better than Mesa water
--New York has toilet paper thinner than tissue paper

Steven and Santina (one of his converts)

Us with the Molina family

Steven with Lynda, Luis, and Gian Franco

First time on the subway

This was before I went into the museum...my face afterwards wasn't this excited :)

some creepy lizard at the museum





Central park

Strawberry Fields



Grand Central Station



Whispering place



St. Patrick's Cathedral








Our hotel