Manhattan Day 3
We bought ourselves 48 passes on the red double decker Grey Line buses so we could experience the city. A definite must-do for first time visitors as it gives you a great view of all of Manhattan. You don't have to drive or walk and avoid people and mad taxi drivers. You can hop on and off wherever you'd like. This allowed us to see many sites and take lots of photos you've probably seen a million times on other people's trips to Manhattan so i won't take up bandwidth but just quickly list what we saw.
We hit the deli for breakfast and ate while we were chauffeured. We hit Uptown seeing St. John the Divine, Grant's Tomb, Harlem, Apollo Theater, the museum Mile (MET, Guggenheim, etc), and Central Park again. We hopped off to peruse FAO Shwartz then started walking to the NBC studios for a tour. Along the way we ran into the New York Public Library so I tried to see what those silly lions keep looking at.
We also stopped at the Disney Store where i found some Pirate schwag for Brad (which will be coming your way-I'm keeping the t-shirt and lolli :))
We then had lunch at Rockefeller Center and took the NBC tour. Then we quick stepped it to the top of the Empire State Building which was s a bit unsettling because it was gusty but yet hazy with only 2 miles visibility.
We reboarded a bus and headed Downtown and saw the Flatiron Building, Chinatown, Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the United Nations. I don't mention Times Square at all because our hotel is a block away and we see it all the time whether we hop on the bus, catch the subway or just walk out of the hotel. It's quite amazingly busy ALL the time. There are cops everywhere ALL the time and we both feel completely safe ALL the time. The biggest threat is the cab drivers who overzealously make it thru every intersection they come to even if it's red. With all the walking and touring we went to bed early. I'm so happy knowing we'll get home on a Friday and still have the weekend to recuperate. We're going to need to catch up on some major ZZZ's although are bed here is a dream and as soon as either of us lies down we're out cold.
We hit the deli for breakfast and ate while we were chauffeured. We hit Uptown seeing St. John the Divine, Grant's Tomb, Harlem, Apollo Theater, the museum Mile (MET, Guggenheim, etc), and Central Park again. We hopped off to peruse FAO Shwartz then started walking to the NBC studios for a tour. Along the way we ran into the New York Public Library so I tried to see what those silly lions keep looking at.
We also stopped at the Disney Store where i found some Pirate schwag for Brad (which will be coming your way-I'm keeping the t-shirt and lolli :))
We then had lunch at Rockefeller Center and took the NBC tour. Then we quick stepped it to the top of the Empire State Building which was s a bit unsettling because it was gusty but yet hazy with only 2 miles visibility.
We reboarded a bus and headed Downtown and saw the Flatiron Building, Chinatown, Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the United Nations. I don't mention Times Square at all because our hotel is a block away and we see it all the time whether we hop on the bus, catch the subway or just walk out of the hotel. It's quite amazingly busy ALL the time. There are cops everywhere ALL the time and we both feel completely safe ALL the time. The biggest threat is the cab drivers who overzealously make it thru every intersection they come to even if it's red. With all the walking and touring we went to bed early. I'm so happy knowing we'll get home on a Friday and still have the weekend to recuperate. We're going to need to catch up on some major ZZZ's although are bed here is a dream and as soon as either of us lies down we're out cold.
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