Back to the trip

So finally some time to put up more pictures of the trip. On Thursday July 1st we took the Staten Island Ferry boat over. There is no cost to take the ferry boat, that seems such a foreign concept to me. Great views of the city, it was a nice day and not too much heat again.

After the ferry ride we took the subway up a few stations and then walked over to the Brooklyn Bridge. There were a lot of other people doing the same thing as us. There were also plenty of joggers and bike riders going across. Kent and Erik went up further than me, I just stood around and people watched :)
Next we took the subway up to the Bronx and went to Yankee Stadium. This is only the 2nd season for this stadium. It was nice but actually I think Safeco Field is better,

. We managed to go when the Seattle Mariners were in town. The Mariners won the 2 previous nights at Yankee Stadium but they lost the game we went to. But it was really cool to be at Yankee Stadium though!

In the late afternoon and evening we went back to the Rockefeller Center and looked at the 'Big Apple' that was completed.

We also got into the Lego store and they had a lot of displays with their legos. This 'Monster' ran throughout the store.

Biking thru Central Park & The Met

So on Wednesday morning we took a guided tour through Central Park. It was so much fun! The ride was about 7 1/2 miles long and mostly flat which was good (only 2 hills that we had to walk up) It wasn't too hot so that made it even more enjoyable. After the bike ride we went to The Met (Metropolitian Museum of Art) It is a huge place with so many exhibits that you could spend weeks there is you wanted to look at each piece of art. We only had a few hours so we went through it pretty fast. Here are just some of the 350 pictures Kent took for the day!

On Tuesday we went to the "Top of the Rock" that is the observation deck on the top of the Rockerfeller Center. We had read that it was easier to get up to then the Empire State Building and the same cost. It was good in that we got to combine the observation deck along with a tour at NBC studios in NY. The view was incredible and other than the fact it was still pretty hot we loved being up so high. After we went upstairs we went on a tour of the NBC Studios. We went through a few sets such as the Dr. Oz show, Jimmy Fallon and the SNL studio. It was a great tour and they had a video that made me feel really old as I watched so many of the old shows that NBC has produced over the years.

In the Evening we went to see West Side Story on Broadway. Of course it was great and Erik loved seeing all of the performance.

Just a sobering reminder

In Rockerfeller Center plaza they had a brand new Lego store open up so they had huge Lego displays everywhere. You had to get in a line just to get into the store. Outside they had kids building blocks that were then taken over for the main builders to put together to build "The Big Apple"


In the evening we went over to the Empire State Building after the show just so we could say we were there!