Our Trip Day Six

The Grand Concourse was one of the nicer places to drive in the city because of the wide streets. I can't believe how crazy it is driving there.


The picture below is of the apartment where Michael lived in the Bronx. He was so excited to show us all the placed where he lived.

Hunt's Point is where we got flashed by a chubby hooker. Good thing Aaron was playing his video game instead of looking out the window, Sam on the other hand got a quick lesson.

We finally had to say good bye to New York City

West Point

Boys and their toys

My little Army


These last two pictures were taken by Sam by the banks of the Susquehanna River. (They were that last pictures taken by my new camera before it stopped taking pictures. I brought a back up and tomorrow we are going to stop off in Cleveland to a Costco to exchange it for a new one. I really liked it before it stopped working.

Our Trip Day Five

Central Park

A soft pretzel with mustard in Central Park

St. Thomas' Cathedral

All of that hand carving is amazing

The NBA Store.

St. Patrick's Cathedral

Stained glass windows along the side wall of St. Patrick's Cathedral, just beautiful!

Samuel & Aaron inside St. Patrick's Cathedral

Michael and I inside Saint Patrick's Cathedral.

Saint Patrick's Cathedral
This place was absolutely amazing, so much detail.

The Boys in front of Rockefeller Center

Sam and Pikachu

Aaron with Pikachu.

Nintendo World.
On our way to Rockefeller Center we passed Nintendo World, two stories of "Boy Heaven". Aaron bought a new game for his DSi.

Our Trip Day Four

This is Thursday, Day Four of our trip. We drove into the city, yes, I mean Michael drove us to and in the city with our rental car. Those of you who know what a lovely passenger I am can appreciate my hysteria. We made it to the parking lot in one piece but parking cost us $43.

This is the Lincoln Tunnel entering from New Jersey and it goes under the Hudson River and lets you out in Manhattan.

NYC is loaded with signs every where but nobody seems to pay attention to them. For example, this "Don't Honk" sign. New Yorkers need two hands to drive because they steer with one hand and lay on the horn with the other and you don't see ANYBODY getting a ticket for that.

This was kind of funny, a bunch of lawn chairs sitting in the middle of the street in Time Square. We could just sit down their and enjoy the view.

Time Square.

We got to go up into the Empire State Building. It was wierd looking down on skyscrapers.

Michael and his NYC counterpart.




We had our first official New York Slice of Pizza. Mmmm it was sooooo good! Everything we ate here was so yummy.

There were so many firsts. We had our first subway ride. We bought an unlimited day pass for the train and went all over the place.

It's amazing how fast those trains go by.

Michael took us into this pretty scary neighborhood to show us the apartment he lived in when he lived in the lower east side of Manhattan. I thought we were going to die!



After our brush with death we made it to a lovelier place. Here is the NYC LDS Temple. It's amazing because this building is multifuntional. The only other multifunctional Temple is the Hong Kong Temple, meaning that it is use for other things like a stake center (which is on the 3rd floor), the distribution center is on the 2nd floor and the Temple is on the 4th and 5th floors.

Next we went to the Dakota, this is where John Lennon Lived and was killed.

Right across the street from the Dakota is Central Park. We entered there at the Strawberry Fields where there was this John Lennon memorial area and a band that played Beatles songs.

Our Trip Day Three

On day three, we left Philadelphia and crossed the Delaware River to Camden, New Jersey and took a tour on the USS New Jersey. It was the last Battleship built by the Navy. The weather was great and there was no crowds. It was like a private tour.

Sam in the fire control room getting ready to launch some missiles.

Sam and Aaron testing out the sleeping quarters.

In front of a Tomahawk Cruise Missile.

What every family needs.... a picture in front of a Phalanx Gatling gun.