~New York~

Dave had to go to New York this past week for work, so of course I had to go with him :) We flew out a day early so we could have time together to see the sights of New York, and for only being there 3 days I was sooo impressed that we got everything in that we wanted to do. We saw the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, Little Italy, Chinatown, the Empire State Building, Rockefellar Center, took a carriage ride through Central Park, Went to Times Square, saw the Broadway Play Wicked (which I loved), took a river tour cruise at night to see the city lights, visited the Ground Zero Memorial, visited a cathedral, and rode in the Subway. And I have to say by the time we got home we were EXHAUSTED!!! And can you believe that Dave worked too. We were super busy, but had a blast being in New York. It was fun to get away just the 2 of us (I don't think we've done that since our Honeymoon).

We were going on 24 hours of no sleep when we visited the Statue of Liberty. So that is why Dave doesn't look all that thrilled. Really he did enjoy it!

The view of the city from the Statue fo Liberty.

President Obama was giving a speech at the Federal Building(right acrossed from the stock exchange) that is why everything was blocked off. It was kind of cool, because we saw his helicopter fly into the city, and then there were tv crews everywhere on wall street. I know we were on tv somewhere because we walked by several reporters reporting on what Obama had said.

At Times Square.
So we were looking for the Naked Cowboy, but instead found Elmo.

Us ontop of the Empire State Building. The View of the city was AWESOME!!!

Our carriage ride through Central Park was a lot of fun. It was nice to get away from the business of the city and relax going through the park.

We ended up meeting up with Jerry and Darinda on the last day we were there. They flew in for business meetings, so we spent the day with them.

Dave playing on the BIG Piano.

We ended our trip with a stretched limo ride. It was pretty cool.

New York is a CRAZY city. We were shooked at how cars don't stop for pedestrians, and pedestrians don't stop for cars. We saw a guy on a bike get hit by a taxi, but he just jumped up and walked away (it was a pretty hard hit too), we saw people escape getting hit by a car by the skin of their teeth. And we were amazed at how many poeple there were.

I think our favorite thing was going to Chinatown and Little Italy. We had a blast, but we are glad to be back home. :)