Vacation Part 4: New York (FINALLY)!!!

WARNING: Long Post Ok so we have been home for a month and a half now and I am just finishing up my vacation posting, bad I know. We have been super busy and I rarely have a second to do it. On Tuesday the 12th of our trip it was my birthday! We left Boston and drove to New York City. It was a pretty drive. We got to our hotel but we were an hour early for Check in but we were able to because we met this cool guy named Charles, he was so nice and got us in early and gave us a better room. We then got ready and rode the bus into New York. We were told this was the better way to go by Charles so we did it. He ended up on our bus with us. It took forever. We got on the bus at about 4 and he told us it took about 30 minutes to get into the the City. It took a lot longer then 30 minutes it took an hour and forty five minutes. It was awful. We ended up being 20 minutes late for our dinner reservations. We ate at the the View Restaurant atop the Marriot in Times Square. It was very good we both had Filet Mignon. The restaurant actually turns while you are eating. It goes slow enough you don't even notice it but it gave us a good view on the entire city. After we were done with dinner we had to run so fast because we had 4 minutes to get to our show 7 blocks away. Not the best thing to do after eating a huge piece of meat. We made it just in time. We went and saw Wicked. It was so good. I wanted to see it again and again. It was defintely worth the money we spent on it. After the show we rode the bus back to our hotel and it only took 30 minutes thank goodness because we were both so tired. Wednesday we went back into the city, this time we figured out how the train works and found a station close by. It was so much better then the bus and it cost about the same. We headed first to get our bus tour tickets then off to the Statue of Liberty. We won't bore you will all the details but we saw the Statue and the bus took us through all downtown New York like China Town, Little Italy, and Soho. It was nice to not walk everywhere and from the top of the bus you get a pretty good view of the city. We also took a night tour over the Bridges after it was dark. It was amazing to see the city so bright off in the distance. Thursday we did the city again. We did more uptown we saw the Manhatten Temple, went to the Museum of Natural History, The MET, and saw the actors from Night at the Museum filming the second movie! We walked through Central Park for a bit and also saw the Empire State Building. This day it poured so hard for almost an hour and there was a lot of lightening and thunder. It kinda freaked me out a bit. Thursday night we also had bought tickets to the Blue Man Group. We could not find the theater for the life of us we walked in the rain and were soaked for almost an hour and we finally found it with only 15 minutes to spare! The show was awesome it was a small theater. We were on the ninth row. If anyone every gets a chance to see it go it is worth it and tickets really weren't that much (Vegas is a lot more I know that). After the show we figured out the subway system so we wouldn't have to walk the 50 blocks back to the train station. It was actually really easy, cheap, and not scary like I thought it would be.

Here are a few pictures I picked through over 250 from just NYC!

Manhatten Temple!!!

Museum of Natural History
Central Park

Empire State Building

Times Square!
Top of the Empire State Buiding! It was Raining to hard to go outside!

I put this picture of the mean french lady, I

tripped over her and she did not like it! Like I



liked it and meant to she glared at me the whole



rest of the ride!

I look awful thanks to the rain! Wicked Rocks!

Interviews!

Andrew received an email and a letter in the mail yesterday for two interviews for Optometry Schools! The first one is the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis and the Second one is for the State University of New York in New York City. He is so excited! Wish him luck!

P.S. Someday I will put our pictures of the last part of our trip in NYC on here.

Vacation Part 3: Boston

After a good nights sleep for the first time on our trip we started our day in Boston with a trip to Finagle a Bagle. It was delicious! We then spent the rest of the day touring Boston and walking along the freedom trail. It was a nice 70 Degrees out and there was light rain off and on during the day which was nice cause it deterred a lot of people away. We enjoyed Boston very much. The last stop on the Freedom trail is the Bunker Hill Monument. Andrew and I both climbed it, it was 294 steps! We are so out of shape we were dying by the time we got done. It was an awesome view of the city from the top though! We had a lot of good food in Boston. Some good hot dogs, Dinner at Durgin Park where we had the best pot roast ever! After we got done with the freedom trail we went and did a little window shopping. We then went back to our hotel and crashed for two hours we were so exhausted. We woke up and went to a great ice cream place a guy I work with suggested called Picco. We had cinnamon, raspberry chip, mango, and carmel swirl. They were so good! I was a little hesistant to try the cinnamon at first but it was the best one by far. Who would have thought?