Bellajoe
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Bellajoe
How was New York? I want to go there so bad! I checked your profile and we have a bit in common, married in 1998, a baby in 1999 and a baby in 2000 
Cool, that is quite a bit in common. We both worked pretty fast having those babies!!
New York. It's a nice place to visit but I have no idea HOW people live there! I'm just a girl from a small suburb in Ohio, NYC was a whole different world!! It was very very crowded. I swear that there were more foreigners than there were Americans. Nobody spoke English.
We got to the airport on Friday and found that our flight had been cancelled!! After talking to the lady at the counter, she got us on a flight to JFK that left at 1:00.(the original one landed at LaGuardia)So we sat and waited at the airport for 3 hours. We laughed because it was our anniversary and it reminded us of our honeymoon. Where we were stuck in the very small Jamaican airport for 5 -6 hours waiting to go home because our flight kept being pushed back. When we got there, we took a terrifying cab ride to the hotel. I hate taking cabs. By the time we checked in, I told my dh that I needed something to calm my nerves. So we went up to the bar at the top of the hotel and got some martinis and a snack of pita chips and hummus. It took forever for the girl to bring us the snack, so she ended up taking it off our bill.
We went to MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). They must use the word ART very loosely because to us, most of it was not art. It was stuff a monkey could do. LOL
We took the subway which was an experience in itself. Not my favorite thing to do, but it was cheap and it got us places fast. The one time we were on it, it was jam packed like sardines and someone had not put on deoderant!! It reeked of B.O. eww!
We went to the top of the Empire State Building. That was neat, yet VERY high!! 86 floors and 1000 some feet up. I stood there thinking that there must have been people up there and watching when the planes hit the Twin Towers and how terrifying that must have been!
One of my favorite parts was going into St. Patrick's Cathedral. It took my breath away. I have never seen a more beautiful building in my life. So intricate.
We saw and went into Trump Tower. It was nice but not as nice as it looks on t.v. We also saw Rockefellar Center which was cool. Times Square was really neat to see in person. The Jumbotron looks a lot bigger on T.V. ALthough it was still big in person. The whole Times Square area is just obnoxious, like Vegas is. Lights, neon, etc. everywhere. It was crazy busy and crowded too. But really neat to see. We went into TIffany's and I drooled over all the sparkly jewelry. I tried on a ring, just for the heck of it. Then found out it was an $8,000 ring. It wasn't that exciting either. Just a small thing with little tiny sapphires and diamonds all around it.
The Statue of Liberty was very cool to see in person, she is not as big as I thought she was. We could see her from our hotel room. It was beautiful to see at nighttime.
We did not end up going to a show, they were just to expensive.
Now it will be fun to watch t.v. shows and movies and say "hey, I know where that is!" or "i've been there!"
The service was awful at every restaurant we went to and we really didn't have any good meals there. We were happy to be home!
Oh, we stayed at the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park which was really really nice!
We did enjoy ourselves, but we do not plan on returning.
Thanks for asking!
Yikes. Doesn't sound like that nice of a vacation! Niagara Falls was busy enough and one restaurant we got bad service at, and left, before they even brought us drinks, since they seemed to be ignoring us, so we went to Wolfgang Puck, where they were more than happy to serve us.
Times Square must be like Clifton Hill, in Niagara Falls, noisy, bright and crowded! Not all of Niagara Falls was like that, though.
I would like to go there at least once, though!
I'm sorry you didn't have a nicer time for your big anniversary trip. My sil went back in the spring and she loved it, but she is very into Broadway and caught a few shows. I'd like to go but it would help if I saved up a bunch of money to go shopping lol! I know I couldn't live there either. Small town girl here too and cabs scare me. It goes against the whole don't take rides from strangers and I'm afraid I'll get a serial killer cab driver.
Most of the cabbies don't speak much english. Sometimes they didn't even acknowledge that we said anything to them. LIke "2 West Street please"
On the way to the airport a van actually scraped against our Taxi Cab. OUr guy honked his horn, but then told the other guy "don't worry, it's o.k. man!" and laughed.
Dawn, think Clifton Hill but 20 times more obnoxious!
Before we went, I had really wanted to get a hotdog from a vender on the street in NYC. Just because that's what you see on t.v. But once I saw the vendors, my stomach turned and I changed my mind! LOL
It was still a nice time, I do like to do different things have adventures and it definitely was one!
Sounds like one.. LOL Glad you will be able to say you made the trip, many of us will never make it there..
20 times MORE obnoxious? Yikes! The Saturday night, that we were in Niagara Falls, Clifton Hill was soooo busy. We were walking up the hill, to head back to the hotel and Sarah and I stopped to look at a t-shirt, just momentarily. We couldn't catch up to Emily and Gary. They had to step aside, to let us catch up. There were so many people. That weekend was a 3-day weekend for the Canadians, so NF got really hectic, on the weekend.
o.k. maybe not 20 times more obnoxious, but close. There were big t.v. screens lit up everywhere. There is more than one "JUMBOTRON" in Times Square. Neon, all over. It's nuts. Plus so many people, honking car horns, taxi's etc.
My dh and I held hands a lot more than usual just so we wouldn't lose each other. LOL
I don't blame you there! We almost lost each other, just on Clifton Hill! I understand what you mean about sensory overload. We were far enough away from Clifton Hill, that it was much quieter, over there, when we were by the hotel.
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