New York Trip Day 7

(ok, so this is how we are going to play this. we are going to go in our wayback machine and go way back to the day that this all actually happend and pretend I'm keeping up like a good blogger :-) so remember it is now Monday. got it)

So here it is Monday morning and we are going on a guided "city tour" our lovely guide... uhhh Kim, or Ken or something is telling us about various sites as we drive around the city. We will be getting out at a few places also... oh like here-

Central Park: Central Park is just lovely. I may have mentioned all the green and trees in the area before but holy crap there are alot of trees and lovely spaces in the park. once you get in there you don't really notice you are in the middle of such a busy city as your now in your own little world. they had the coolest gazebo/ trellis/ something or other things that I want! Did you know almost every green thing in Central Park was physically put there!? Ok, so I'm thinking if we plant a thousand trees and build one of those gazebo thingies I will be set :-)
I also didn't know just how huge central park is! we stopped at a map where our guide showed us the tiny bit of the park we had been wandering around in and it was like 1 100th of the place :-0

then it was back on the bus and off to more sightseeing. I can't remember everywhere we talked about but the man was hilarious. Our next stop was at Grand Central Terminal (station is not the right word although that's still what I call it) That place is also huge. the ceiling is quite interesting with the constellations painted on also. They have a market there that is awesome! I WISH Salt Lake or anywhere in Utah for that matter had something like that. It was very cool.

back on the bus... one site we saw from the bus. Did you know New York has a trapeze school? well they do and I have pics to prove it

next stop was the site of the world trade center. it now looks like any other construction site but you still feel the great sense of loss. The building next door is still being torn down but its taking a long time because they are still finding remains after all this time so they are making sure everything is thoroughly gone through instead of just bringing the building down. we also went to the church across the way where alot of the rescuers had down time. That is where the picture of the headstone came from. I like the headstone as if I am going to be relegious here a moment I think God is the one with the last say. no matter what religion they may follow.

after our tour with him ended we went to chinatown to "shop". Colt and I didn't do much shopping as there wasn't really anything there we wanted. It was a tad weird walking down the road and having people whispering in your ear about what they had for sale "in the back".

I think we then went to dinner.

So we went to Spanky's to undress. That is how they phrased it when they were telling us our day that morning. really we were going to Spanky's which is a BBQ place for dinner, then we could change into our clothes to go to Phantom of the Opera. so that is what we did

we had a short time before we went to the show so we spent it in Times Square again. where there were cops EVERYWHERE! upon asking one why, it turns out they were having a antiterrosim drill. We also braved getting killed by going down the middle of the road to what I like to call the ketchup fence (grin) and snapping a pic. You can't tell me it doesn't look like someone drew with a bottle of ketchup!

Phantom of the Opera was awesome. I wish I hadn't been so tired though, I think i would have liked it more but it was cool. Colt was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY on the otherside of the seating from me. Oh well. He liked it too.

After that we went back to the motel and BS'd way to long beings as we had to get up at 4 am. note to self. 1:30 is not the proper time to go to sleep to get up at 4! I would like to also comment on all the No Honking signs! they are all over the place... but no one listens.