That's right folks, we went to New York! After leaving the JFK Airport we went to Brooklyn and spent a month there one night! We arrived at the airport 8 minutes ahead of schedule. However, it was still just after 5am. Kira picked us up and we drove around trying to decide what were going to do first.
We drove through the ghetto parts of Queens and Brooklyn. So, what about Brooklyn? Who wants Brooklyn? C'mon, Spot Conlon's territory. Whats'a matta, you scared of Brooklyn? Hey, we ain't scared of Brooklyn! So we drove over the Brooklyn Bridge into lower Manhattan. And that's where we saw our first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. (Above is us driving on the bridge. Below is a picture of the bridge from the ferry going to Liberty Island)
We couldn't find a place to park. Then we thought: Try Central Park, it's guaranteed. We eventually found a garage to park at right by the south end of Central Park. Unfortunately we didn't get to go inside the park.
We were all pretty hungry so we went to a place called Fluffy's and had some breakfast. It was pretty good. After that we rode the subway. Of course we didn't get to miss having a crazy person on the train. It's this brain of mine, it's always makin' mistakes... it's got a mind of its own. He was talking to himself and seemed to be having some kind of argument with his cell phone. The phone didn't even seem to be working! He would slam it on the seat and shove it away and then pick it up again and start talking into it. Sometimes without flipping it open. That was entertaining. Oh, you know how everyone who says that the subway platform smells like pee...well it's true! The first one we were at wasn't that bad, but all the other platforms were terrible! I smell money. You smell foul.
We rode the subway to Ground Zero where the World Trade Center was. There was only a hole where they were beginning to rebuild. We were disappointed because we thought there was going to be a memorial or something. Then we walked over to the financial district and checked out all the amazing skyscrapers and buildings. We walked past the Trinity Church shown in National Treasure. We saw the Bull on Hitch. Then we found Battery Park.
This was the construction site of the memorial being built for the Twin Towers and Ground Zero.
Here is Kira and Robert posing with the Bull in the financial distric of NYC.
At around 10 a.m. we went bought our tickets and were on our way to Liberty Island and Ellis Island. (Just before we got onto the ferry, Robert had to get rid of his pocketknives because they would not let him go if he had them. So he had to stash them somewhere and hope they would be there when we got back.)
We walked around Lady Liberty taking pictures and admiring the view of New York from a distance. We were going to into the base of the statue, but we didn't think we had enough time so we gave our tickets to two frenchies who weren't going to be able to go up because they had the wrong kind of tickets. There's our good deed of the week!
This is a veiw of NYC from Liberty Island. 
Here are pictures to prove that we were there. After that we put an egg in our shoe and beat it to Ellis Island.
That place was amazing even though we only stayed for about 25 minutes. We saw so much, but want to see more! We learned about how thousands upon thousands of immigrants had passed through there and what not. Extry, extry. Read all about it. Ellis Island in flames.
(This is one of our favorite photos. As we walked into the museum we had an overwhelming feeling of pride for our country and a small glimpse of what so many immigrants must of seen and felt as they came to America with a new hope! Those flags hanging said it all. God bless America!)
After Ellis we went back to Manhattan (Robert got his pocket knives back) and got hotdogs from a vendor, a must do in New York City.
We then took the subway back to Grand Central Station. Then we started walking and looking for the theatre where the Broadway musical The Lion King was playing because it was just after 1pm and we thought we needed to be seated really early; the show started at 3pm. In our search for the theatre we had to go through Times Square. The theatre wasn't even a block away. There was a really good view of the square from inside the theatre. There was about an hour of time wasted as we waited for the show to start.
We finally got in to watch the show. Although it was ridiculously hot and lack of sleep was kicking in, the show was simply spectacular! There was so much culture and talent put into this show. The art and technology was amazing for a stage type show. Words don't really do it justice! Robert fell asleep the most. It definitely wasn't from boredom or a crappy show. It was from too much heat and very little sleep. How'd ya sleep, (Robert)? On me back, Mush.
It was just before 6pm when we finished the show. We went to the biggest Toys R US store we'd ever seen. Don't believe it? Well there's a freakin' ferris wheel in it!
We were now really hungry and wanted to get out of NYC before it got too late and the freaks came out! Look at this! Baby born with two heads!
Just give me half a cup. Somethin' to wake me up. So to Times Square McDonalds to grab a bite to eat.
After dinner we had long walk back to the car. Deah me, what is dat unpleasant aroma? I fear da sewer may have backed up durin' da night. The streets were starting to wreak of fecal matter so the sooner we could get to the car, the better.
We got the car and started the difficult scramble of getting out of there It was sweet to see the city with all the lights and signs lit up. We had to take a different route to get out of Manhattan because we didn't want to drive through the way we came after dark. So with our great lack of experience in big cities, let alone NYC we slowly and cautiously navigated our way through the city with a dinky $4 gas station map. It is a good thing we had Lois to navigate.
For you Newsies fans: Count how many quotes from the movie are in this blog and you may just win a prize!
This blog was brought to you by the collective minds and personalities of Robert and Lois Draper
We drove through the ghetto parts of Queens and Brooklyn. So, what about Brooklyn? Who wants Brooklyn? C'mon, Spot Conlon's territory. Whats'a matta, you scared of Brooklyn? Hey, we ain't scared of Brooklyn! So we drove over the Brooklyn Bridge into lower Manhattan. And that's where we saw our first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. (Above is us driving on the bridge. Below is a picture of the bridge from the ferry going to Liberty Island)
We couldn't find a place to park. Then we thought: Try Central Park, it's guaranteed. We eventually found a garage to park at right by the south end of Central Park. Unfortunately we didn't get to go inside the park.
We were all pretty hungry so we went to a place called Fluffy's and had some breakfast. It was pretty good. After that we rode the subway. Of course we didn't get to miss having a crazy person on the train. It's this brain of mine, it's always makin' mistakes... it's got a mind of its own. He was talking to himself and seemed to be having some kind of argument with his cell phone. The phone didn't even seem to be working! He would slam it on the seat and shove it away and then pick it up again and start talking into it. Sometimes without flipping it open. That was entertaining. Oh, you know how everyone who says that the subway platform smells like pee...well it's true! The first one we were at wasn't that bad, but all the other platforms were terrible! I smell money. You smell foul.
We rode the subway to Ground Zero where the World Trade Center was. There was only a hole where they were beginning to rebuild. We were disappointed because we thought there was going to be a memorial or something. Then we walked over to the financial district and checked out all the amazing skyscrapers and buildings. We walked past the Trinity Church shown in National Treasure. We saw the Bull on Hitch. Then we found Battery Park.
This was the construction site of the memorial being built for the Twin Towers and Ground Zero.Here is Kira and Robert posing with the Bull in the financial distric of NYC.At around 10 a.m. we went bought our tickets and were on our way to Liberty Island and Ellis Island. (Just before we got onto the ferry, Robert had to get rid of his pocketknives because they would not let him go if he had them. So he had to stash them somewhere and hope they would be there when we got back.)
This is a picture from Battery Park, Lady Liberty is in the far background.
We walked around Lady Liberty taking pictures and admiring the view of New York from a distance. We were going to into the base of the statue, but we didn't think we had enough time so we gave our tickets to two frenchies who weren't going to be able to go up because they had the wrong kind of tickets. There's our good deed of the week!
This is a veiw of NYC from Liberty Island. Here are pictures to prove that we were there. After that we put an egg in our shoe and beat it to Ellis Island.That place was amazing even though we only stayed for about 25 minutes. We saw so much, but want to see more! We learned about how thousands upon thousands of immigrants had passed through there and what not. Extry, extry. Read all about it. Ellis Island in flames.
(This is one of our favorite photos. As we walked into the museum we had an overwhelming feeling of pride for our country and a small glimpse of what so many immigrants must of seen and felt as they came to America with a new hope! Those flags hanging said it all. God bless America!)After Ellis we went back to Manhattan (Robert got his pocket knives back) and got hotdogs from a vendor, a must do in New York City.
We then took the subway back to Grand Central Station. Then we started walking and looking for the theatre where the Broadway musical The Lion King was playing because it was just after 1pm and we thought we needed to be seated really early; the show started at 3pm. In our search for the theatre we had to go through Times Square. The theatre wasn't even a block away. There was a really good view of the square from inside the theatre. There was about an hour of time wasted as we waited for the show to start.
We finally got in to watch the show. Although it was ridiculously hot and lack of sleep was kicking in, the show was simply spectacular! There was so much culture and talent put into this show. The art and technology was amazing for a stage type show. Words don't really do it justice! Robert fell asleep the most. It definitely wasn't from boredom or a crappy show. It was from too much heat and very little sleep. How'd ya sleep, (Robert)? On me back, Mush.
It was just before 6pm when we finished the show. We went to the biggest Toys R US store we'd ever seen. Don't believe it? Well there's a freakin' ferris wheel in it!
We were now really hungry and wanted to get out of NYC before it got too late and the freaks came out! Look at this! Baby born with two heads!
Just give me half a cup. Somethin' to wake me up. So to Times Square McDonalds to grab a bite to eat.
After dinner we had long walk back to the car. Deah me, what is dat unpleasant aroma? I fear da sewer may have backed up durin' da night. The streets were starting to wreak of fecal matter so the sooner we could get to the car, the better.
We got the car and started the difficult scramble of getting out of there It was sweet to see the city with all the lights and signs lit up. We had to take a different route to get out of Manhattan because we didn't want to drive through the way we came after dark. So with our great lack of experience in big cities, let alone NYC we slowly and cautiously navigated our way through the city with a dinky $4 gas station map. It is a good thing we had Lois to navigate.
For you Newsies fans: Count how many quotes from the movie are in this blog and you may just win a prize!
This blog was brought to you by the collective minds and personalities of Robert and Lois Draper
4 comments:
9. Even though I've only seen Newsies twice or so. Do I win? Also I'm glad Robert got his knives back, I was worried about it.
Wow you really hit the town! I think I'd want a whole day for each thing you did - and you did it all in one day!
Thanks for going and checking it out and giving Kira a practice in showing people around for me!! My trip should be even better, eh?
I'm going to make it there someday too!
Cheri
Wait, I forgot the title, that makes 10.
I didn't count the quotes, but I sure enjoyed them as I read through your blog. How creative!!! We just got the movie Newsies, because, of course, it is a classic.
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