tlinus
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This is just a very short report on my trip to NYC last week with DH while he was in a training class.
We arrived in NYC via Amtrak at 5:45PM Sunday 6/3/07. Instead of taking a cab from Mid Town to Lower Manhattan, we decided to try our hand at the subway system. Yea, missed our stop and had to go up and over to the other side to go back 2 stops.
We were staying at the Holiday Inn on Gold and Platt. The room was a very nice size for a hotel room in the city. Nice size desk and King Size bed. The view out of the window was of the building across the street, but we were fine with it.....Wound up at a little Sports Bar/Irish Pub called Ryan's for a bite to eat and a drink. It was really raining.....hard!!
Unfortunately Monday it continued to rain quite a bit.....until around 1-1:30 so that cancelled any sightseeing plans I had for that day. I walked to where DH was in class and we did lunch together. Grabbed a fruit salad off a vendor and headed back to the hotel for some alone time - some me time and a well needed and deserved 2 hour nap!!! After DH got done class and came back we tried to decide where to go for dinner. We wound up going to a small restaurant called Carmine's in the Seaport area. WOW!!! It was THE BEST Salmon I have ever had.....when we were done, we walked outside and I then realized we were right by the Brooklyn Bridge.....what a beautiful sight at night, and of course, I forgot the camera!!! (bad, bad, me!!)
Tuesday was my day to take in some sights. I started on the Staten Island Ferry:
Got a few (ok, more than a few) shots of this lady:
Lower end of Manhattan from the ferry:
Ellis Island:
THe East River haze that morning with Lady Liberty and Manhattan in the background:
The Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges:
After getting off the Ferry, I checked out Battery Park. It was great!
The temporary memorial to 9/11 is in Battery Park:
I then hit the streets:
And made my way to Ground Zero. I really didn't know how to react. I remember that day as clear as anything as I was 8 months preggo with bean #3. I was watching the local morning news on FOX because they are the only channel that has local coverage until like 9am. I remember them going live to NYC where they thought that the plane that crashed into the first tower was an accident. As I watched the coverage, out of the corner of the screen came the second plane. I felt like I was kicked in the stomach and I had to sit down. I called DH to tell him what happened - it was a really bad day, for everyone in America. For the sensitivity of others, I am only posting a couple of pictures of the area, although I spent a little over an hour there and have many pictures of the timeline, tributes and pictures they have lining the fences. I cried - and I was not the only one. I didn't have anyone personally involved in the tragedy, but I still cried.
The FDNY Engine 10 Ladder 10 that sits on the same street as the site of WTC:
Ongoing work to make the memorial park on the site of WTC:
I hoofed it back and met DH for some pizza for lunch. After he went back to class, I walked down South Street to the Seaport - What a cool area that was!!! I went inside the mall they have there on the pier and did my shopping for the kids.
I got back to the room around 4:30 and was beat!!!! Dh had a long day then proceeded to answer work emails and whatnot. He was beat, so we hit Ryan's again fro some burgers and the Phillies/Mets game. I was leaving in the morning, so we just stayed there for a bit and headed back to the hotel around 10.
There is so much to see and do in NYC that cannot be accomplished in one day. If Monday had been nicer, I would have liked to get to Soho/Little Italy and Chinatown......and we have decided that the next week of training/Tech Ed (Microsoft convention I went for a few days with Dh to Boston last year) I am staying the whole time he is......yeah he is gone most of the day but in my pictures, storytelling, DH gets to live it as well!
Enjoy, hope it wasn't boring for you all!!
We arrived in NYC via Amtrak at 5:45PM Sunday 6/3/07. Instead of taking a cab from Mid Town to Lower Manhattan, we decided to try our hand at the subway system. Yea, missed our stop and had to go up and over to the other side to go back 2 stops.
We were staying at the Holiday Inn on Gold and Platt. The room was a very nice size for a hotel room in the city. Nice size desk and King Size bed. The view out of the window was of the building across the street, but we were fine with it.....Wound up at a little Sports Bar/Irish Pub called Ryan's for a bite to eat and a drink. It was really raining.....hard!!
Unfortunately Monday it continued to rain quite a bit.....until around 1-1:30 so that cancelled any sightseeing plans I had for that day. I walked to where DH was in class and we did lunch together. Grabbed a fruit salad off a vendor and headed back to the hotel for some alone time - some me time and a well needed and deserved 2 hour nap!!! After DH got done class and came back we tried to decide where to go for dinner. We wound up going to a small restaurant called Carmine's in the Seaport area. WOW!!! It was THE BEST Salmon I have ever had.....when we were done, we walked outside and I then realized we were right by the Brooklyn Bridge.....what a beautiful sight at night, and of course, I forgot the camera!!! (bad, bad, me!!)
Tuesday was my day to take in some sights. I started on the Staten Island Ferry:
Got a few (ok, more than a few) shots of this lady:
Lower end of Manhattan from the ferry:
Ellis Island:
THe East River haze that morning with Lady Liberty and Manhattan in the background:
The Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges:
After getting off the Ferry, I checked out Battery Park. It was great!
The temporary memorial to 9/11 is in Battery Park:
I then hit the streets:
And made my way to Ground Zero. I really didn't know how to react. I remember that day as clear as anything as I was 8 months preggo with bean #3. I was watching the local morning news on FOX because they are the only channel that has local coverage until like 9am. I remember them going live to NYC where they thought that the plane that crashed into the first tower was an accident. As I watched the coverage, out of the corner of the screen came the second plane. I felt like I was kicked in the stomach and I had to sit down. I called DH to tell him what happened - it was a really bad day, for everyone in America. For the sensitivity of others, I am only posting a couple of pictures of the area, although I spent a little over an hour there and have many pictures of the timeline, tributes and pictures they have lining the fences. I cried - and I was not the only one. I didn't have anyone personally involved in the tragedy, but I still cried.
The FDNY Engine 10 Ladder 10 that sits on the same street as the site of WTC:
Ongoing work to make the memorial park on the site of WTC:
I hoofed it back and met DH for some pizza for lunch. After he went back to class, I walked down South Street to the Seaport - What a cool area that was!!! I went inside the mall they have there on the pier and did my shopping for the kids.
I got back to the room around 4:30 and was beat!!!! Dh had a long day then proceeded to answer work emails and whatnot. He was beat, so we hit Ryan's again fro some burgers and the Phillies/Mets game. I was leaving in the morning, so we just stayed there for a bit and headed back to the hotel around 10.
There is so much to see and do in NYC that cannot be accomplished in one day. If Monday had been nicer, I would have liked to get to Soho/Little Italy and Chinatown......and we have decided that the next week of training/Tech Ed (Microsoft convention I went for a few days with Dh to Boston last year) I am staying the whole time he is......yeah he is gone most of the day but in my pictures, storytelling, DH gets to live it as well!
Enjoy, hope it wasn't boring for you all!!
thanks for reading and understanding
