My husband was wonderful and let me go visit my Man on the East Coast after all our Christmas festivities. So I took a number of plane rides and ended up hanging out with:
my Man, who is better known as Mandy Kay Sue Joan. The last time we'd seen each other was when she got married in June, so it was SO GOOD to be together again. She was wonderful and allowed me to drag her all around here:
New York City.
Our first day was all about Lady Liberty. At least that's probably what Mandy thought, as I was constantly keeping track of where she was and then making Mandy look. I just couldn't believe that the Statue of Liberty was right there in front of my very own eyes.
We also visited Ellis Island - which has excellent displays on the first floor of the museum :), partook at Carlo's Bakery - which is featured on TLC, and enjoyed the many views of New Jersey from parking lots, roads we weren't supposed to be on, etc. Great Day #1.
The next day we went into NYC and got to see the Broadway show of West Side Story. Wow. Incredible singing and dancing, a mixture of 1950s Puerto Rican & American culture throughout the entire musical.
Of course we had to make a stop at the Largest Wall of Chocolate in the World at the M&M store.
Our last stop that day was Rockefeller Center, and it was a good thing we stopped as the tree was taken down the next day. The ice rink is actually TINY, but the trees around it are the prettiest Christmas trees I've ever seen (see below photo). There were no leaves on the trees, but every branch had little white lights wrapped around it. EVERY BRANCH.
Great Day #2.
The third day was full of rest, something we desperately needed as we had been trooping around all day and then staying up until somewhere between 1 - 3 a.m. every night! It was nice to see Mandy in her own environment, meet a few of her friends, and see the church that she & Adam attend. Great Day #3.
Believe it or not, Mandy let me drag her out of bed early the next morning so we could have another full day in New York. What was one of the first sights we saw? Tim Hortons! What is it? A very common sight in Canada - we have at least six in Langley - but there are very few in the U.S. We also visited the New York Public Library, St. Patrick's Cathedral (largest Gothic cathedral in the world), Grand Central Terminal, and took a LONG (sorry for reading the map wrong, Man!) walk to the Met.
A highlight for me at the Met was seeing this painting by Degas and then seeing a number of his dancer statues that he created before he painted his series so that he'd get the dancers' bodies correct.
A view from Central Park
Strawberry Fields -
John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's favorite place in the park
Adam and Mandy - you guys are so fun.
We visited the World Trade Center site, which was much bigger than I'd ever imagined. They are now building the One World Trade Center. What really struck me were these condolences that were sent to NYC from Japan. Some of them were made and sent by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
For some reason I really wanted to eat frog legs in Chinatown, but we hadn't seen any on the street and they weren't on the restaurant's menu. So I asked our waiter for them and since they didn't have any either, he brought out these: dessert sesame rolls. They were quite flexible and tasted like sesame oil jello.
Times Square at Night
Great Day #4.
All in all, a great trip and a wonderful time with you Man. Thanks for everything.
my Man, who is better known as Mandy Kay Sue Joan. The last time we'd seen each other was when she got married in June, so it was SO GOOD to be together again. She was wonderful and allowed me to drag her all around here:
New York City.
Our first day was all about Lady Liberty. At least that's probably what Mandy thought, as I was constantly keeping track of where she was and then making Mandy look. I just couldn't believe that the Statue of Liberty was right there in front of my very own eyes.
We also visited Ellis Island - which has excellent displays on the first floor of the museum :), partook at Carlo's Bakery - which is featured on TLC, and enjoyed the many views of New Jersey from parking lots, roads we weren't supposed to be on, etc. Great Day #1.
The next day we went into NYC and got to see the Broadway show of West Side Story. Wow. Incredible singing and dancing, a mixture of 1950s Puerto Rican & American culture throughout the entire musical.
Of course we had to make a stop at the Largest Wall of Chocolate in the World at the M&M store.
Our last stop that day was Rockefeller Center, and it was a good thing we stopped as the tree was taken down the next day. The ice rink is actually TINY, but the trees around it are the prettiest Christmas trees I've ever seen (see below photo). There were no leaves on the trees, but every branch had little white lights wrapped around it. EVERY BRANCH.
Great Day #2.
The third day was full of rest, something we desperately needed as we had been trooping around all day and then staying up until somewhere between 1 - 3 a.m. every night! It was nice to see Mandy in her own environment, meet a few of her friends, and see the church that she & Adam attend. Great Day #3.
Believe it or not, Mandy let me drag her out of bed early the next morning so we could have another full day in New York. What was one of the first sights we saw? Tim Hortons! What is it? A very common sight in Canada - we have at least six in Langley - but there are very few in the U.S. We also visited the New York Public Library, St. Patrick's Cathedral (largest Gothic cathedral in the world), Grand Central Terminal, and took a LONG (sorry for reading the map wrong, Man!) walk to the Met.
A highlight for me at the Met was seeing this painting by Degas and then seeing a number of his dancer statues that he created before he painted his series so that he'd get the dancers' bodies correct.
A view from Central Park
Strawberry Fields -
John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's favorite place in the park
Adam and Mandy - you guys are so fun.
We visited the World Trade Center site, which was much bigger than I'd ever imagined. They are now building the One World Trade Center. What really struck me were these condolences that were sent to NYC from Japan. Some of them were made and sent by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
For some reason I really wanted to eat frog legs in Chinatown, but we hadn't seen any on the street and they weren't on the restaurant's menu. So I asked our waiter for them and since they didn't have any either, he brought out these: dessert sesame rolls. They were quite flexible and tasted like sesame oil jello.
Times Square at Night
Great Day #4.
All in all, a great trip and a wonderful time with you Man. Thanks for everything.
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