live love.

new york city was amazing.
i want to go back again some day.

the first day of the trip we went to where my dad grew up and was born in massachusetts and stayed the night in a hotel there. saturday we went to upstate new york to visit another place my dad grew up in and went to high school stayed there for the weekend and went to the church my dad used to go to that sunday. monday morning we drove to new jersey to visit my mom’s cousin and that night drove to the hotel in new jersey which was a few miles away from new york city.

tuesday through thursday we spent in the city.
there is just too much you can see or do and the days all kinda blur together at this point, but i’ll try and recap what i can remember in no particular order.

-first of course the glass cube apple store on fifth avenue. it was amazing! what more can i possibly say.
-central park: it is huge. we only walked through a very small portion of it, but my dad got to play some chess there which was cool for him
-ground zero: couldn’t really see much, it was fenced off and construction was occurring on the actual site but we did go to the tribute center
-trump tower: another huge building, granted most in ny city are, but we used the restrooms there.
-3 hour boat tour around manhattan island: offered a great skyline view of the city and of course the statue of liberty as well as the brooklyn bridge and the waterfalls that will be up till september i think
-time square: it is beyond huge. i thought it was maybe like one intersection or one block but it seemed to never end, taking up multiple blocks in every direction. amazing how big signs can get.
-empire state building: again it was pretty huge. we didn’t go up though due to an hr. and half wait.
-rockefeller center: technically this is about 19 buildings, but we went up to the observation deck of one of the buildings. from 67 stories up you get an amazing view and see how big new york city really is.

just walking around the city was an experience i won’t forget.
the stores are by far the biggest i have ever been in.
me and my brother went to every floor of the macy’s. all 9 and the the 2 basement floors.
the toys r us was so big it had a ferris wheel inside. yea it was crazy.

everything was bigger and busier and more crowded.
i thought the o.c. had a fast busy lifestyle, but compared to ny city we are slow.

i have pictures up. click on the photos page to view them.
(i didn’t post all the ones i took….i took 973 pictures…so yea…)

thank you jphan for letting me borrow your amazing camera and bryant for a bag to keep it safe.

forgive my lack of flow and rhythm. my randomness and horrific grammar, even for my taste. and i don’t follow the rules anyway. i’m tired. i just got home a few hours ago. excuses are lame. so i guess i just wrote poorly tonight. anyways hope you enjoy the pictures i know i enjoyed taking them.
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live love.

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