I know, I know, this post is SOOOOOOO long overdue...life has been insane since getting back from New York, as I've been busy trying to unpack and organize my new abode. And since i took about a billion pictures in NYC, the thought of blogging and picking which pics I wanted to post has been somewhat daunting....hence my procrastination and avoidance. Until now!!!! I am finally getting 'er done! So, what follows is a 2-part post, just because even though I have been selective in which pics I've chosen to post, there are still a lot, because we did and saw a TON. These pics aren't totally in the order of the way we saw the city, mainly because I still never know what order blogger will post things when you upload pics, so try as I might to put some order to my post, it's not always successful!! So here we go!!!
Pammer and I both flew into JFK Sunday late afternoon, me from Buffalo, she from Seattle. We flew in within about 20 mins of each other, so the plan was for Pammer to come meet me at my baggage carousel. Well, Pammer got in just about right on schedule. I landed a bit late but then was lucky enough (sarcasm) to have my plane sit on the tarmac for 90 mins. because of airplane gridlock...how fun!! Pammer and I sent a few text messages so we knew all was good, and I finally got off the plane, met up with her, got my bags, and we got a cab to our "guest house"...more on that later....
Anyway, we were also fortunate (sarcasm again) to experience NYC in the midst of a heat wave. Sunday night we hardly slept b/c of no AC in our room, but the next day we spoke to the lady who owned the house and we got the AC in our room...yipee!! The week got better from there as our little AC unit was used to the max! (to give you an idea, the temps in first few days of the week were anywhere from 35-40C with humidity...ewwww...but I think we were just thankful it didn't rain the whole trip!)
Ok i'd better move along...so Monday-day was just plain hot, and i almost got heat stroke, so we didn't do much during the day. But in the evening, wedid a double decker bus tour - we actually bought a pass for the week, for the "hop on hop off" tours, which gave us the chance to do a variety of tours, hop off at whatever stop we wanted, check stuff out, and when ready, just wait for the next bus to come by and hop back on. It was great!
So here's a shot of the NY skyline, as we drove across the Manhatten bridge.
This is a cool looking building that you see in pics of NY quite often. I don't really even know what it is, but it looks neat!
Taxi city!!! Driving is crazy, I would never even think of attempting to drive in that city! I will let the cabbies to their thing!
This is a cool tile mosaic in "our" subway station - we stayed only 4 blocks from the "116th St" Subway station, which made transportation a breeze -- we are subway pros now!!
Here I am going into our "guest house". We had a room in this house (those are our windows and AC unit!!!) and the lady who owns the house lives upstairs. I think she also rents rooms on the top floor of her house too (it's a common 3-level brownstone, a pretty cool house) We chose a room that had our own kitchen and bathroom. Oh yes, and perhaps I should mention that we didn't really realize that our place was in HARLEM until the taxi was driving us there....a wee bit of fear the first night but after that it was all good. We got used to being the minority and having everyone stare at us (hi we're tourists, oh yes and the only caucasian people around here) and it really wasn't that bad!!!
Times Square at night...a totally different look than in the daytime...lights everywhere, people everywhere, it's a busy busy place!!!
Our adventure to Tiffany and CO where Pammer bought some wine glasses and felt like a star carrying around her Tiffany's bag for the rest of the day!
the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art)...a fine, AC'd place to spend some time on a hot day!
the Empire State building...my biggest disappointment of the whole trip. We went at night because i wanted to take some pics of the city-scape and by the time we got to the top, there was a sudden rain and wind storm that blew in and they closed the observation deck, so we couldn't even go outside!!! I was not a happy camper. and they didn't even give us our money back. boooo
Here I am in Starbucks...but not just any Starbucks...the Trump Tower Starbucks!! And surprisingly, the coffee was priced just the same as anywhere else!
And a view of The Donald's building
3 comments:
such fun..a permit? really? ridiculous! you do know that you can move pics around if you want don't you? I have the same problem and it's a pain to do...anyway looks like you had a blast and from the wedding pics below you look like your mom...which you probably do not need to be told. very pretty.
I try to move the pics around but they never seem to move!!! what am I doing wrong??????
click and drag, make sure before you release you see the cursor in the location you want to put it. it took me a while too!
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