New York City

To celebrate our 1 year anniversary, Zac and I headed to New York City. We had a BLAST, but came back EXHAUSTED! It is definitely a place I have always wanted to visit, but glad I was not in need of a restful/relaxing vacation :)

Day 1: Flight to New York City, Hotel Wellington, Broadway, Subway, Empire State Building

Hudson River:

Lower Manhattan:

Brooklyn Bridge:

New York Mets' New Ballpark & US Open Venue:

Landed at LaGuardia:

View from our room on 25th floor:

Walking around Broadway:

Headed to Times Square from Hotel:

Subway Musician:

Lobby of Empire State Building:

View from the top:

Day 2: Battery Park, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, World Trade Center Site, Federal Hall, Wall Street/NYSE, Trinity Church, Walked Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Little Italy

Ellis Island:

Lower Manhattan from Liberty Island
(World Trade Center Buildings Stood here - twice as tall as these buildings):

Main Building on Ellis Island:

Registry Room (where immigrants were processed):

Hospital on Ellis Island:

Ferry Terminal on Ellis Island:

Baggage & Dormitory (not been restored yet):

Lower Manhattan from Ellis Island:

What a day!!! And it's not over!!!

Sculpture currently in Battery Park:

World Trade Center Construction Site:

Construction of #7 is complete
(building that fell later in the day on 9/11):

Federal Hall
(where George Washington took the oath as President):

New York Stock Exchange
(you cannot drive on streets around this building and guards all around):

Trinity Church
(where firemen & police officers rested during 9/11 search & rescue shifts):

Cemetary at Trinity Church:

On Brooklyn Bridge:

Chinatown:

Yep, that is a bucket of frogs!
We watched a lady pick out the best to take home to cook:

Lombardi's in Little Italy:

Day 3: Good Morning America, Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, Museum of Natural History, David Letterman, Central Park, 5th Ave, Serendipity, Dylan's Candy Bar

Set of Good Morning America:

Sam Champion!!!:

Cooking Segment w/ America's Top Chef Winner:
Recap of Their BIG Adventures:

Yep, that is us with Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer!:

Rockefeller Center:

American Museum of Natural History:

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall:

Exhibit in Hall of Asian Peoples:

Exhibits in Mexico and Central America:

Exhibit in Hall of African Peoples:

Real Elephant Tusks from Africa:

Dinosaur Exhibit:Extinct Bear:Woolly Mammoth:

Life Size Blue Whale:

Waiting for the train:

We were on the front row of David Letterman!!!
Nicholas Cage was the special guest.

David Letterman's Production Company:

Central Park:

Serendipity's Famous Frozen Hot Chocolate:

Day 4: Metropolitan Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Anniversary Dinner, Wicked, Ellen's Stardust Diner

Female Figure from 4500-4000 B.C.:

Twins???:

Medieval Art Exhibit (choir gate from church in Spain):

Arms and Armor Hall:Temple of Dendur:

After theater dessert:

Day 5: Modern Museum of Art, Times Square, Flight back to Dallas

Helicopter hanging from ceiling in MoMA:

Vincent van Gogh's The Olive Trees:

Pablo Picasso's Violin and Grapes:

View of Neighborhood from the Sculpture Garden at MoMA:

Street Musician in Times Square:

Corner Food Vendor
"Hot dogs??? Pretzels???"

Times Square:

Traffic:

Fire Station:

Leaving the city: