It was one wild week!
We did the usual touristy things
Top of the Rock at night
Empire State Building
Central Park
Statue of Liberty (more like boated past the Statue of Liberty due to the government shutdown)
Time Square
Broadway show (met Tony Danza following & he was a jewel)
Chelsea Market
Highline Park
Grand Central Station
Bryant Park
Union Square...you get the picture
My favorite spot was World Trade Center, it made me weep.
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| There was the Tunnel to Towers NYC run going on the day we went to the Tower so there were firemen, military & police galore just finishing the race--always a perk! |
Then we did some not so touristy things...
I was on a quest to get several different fire station shirts for Rob so we met loads of amazing firemen (honestly one of the best parts of the trip if you ask me--who doesn't love the FDNY?)
We got thrown out of a shop on Canal Street. Apparently Ali is too good at haggling. We then followed a purse lady on Canal Street who led us into several different shops, a McDonald's, and finally led us to some guys car to look at purses (yeah, we're probably pretty lucky we didn't end up getting abducted into white slavery or something honestly). Then Purse Lady freaked out on us because we got teased by some NYPD that were standing by the subway and we stopped to talk to them. Knock-off Michael Kors purses or good-looking NYPD cops...hhhmmm, not much of a contest there. Sorry Purse Lady.
I thought we were going to be bumped off in Little Italy. For future reference ladies, when I say I'm starving & need to eat now, it's time to go that's code for we're going to be killed in the gellato parlor if you don't shut up IMMEDIATELY!! I'd like to tell you more of this story but I dunno nuthin' and I'm no rat! HaHa...Yikes!
We had a Fast & the Furious style bus chase trying to catch our bus one morning. Made it, barely. Don't think anyone has gone 95mph down that road in Jersey before though.
I wandered into Hell's Kitchen by myself...and still felt safer there than I did in Little Italy!
I managed to get myself lost while Crystal & Ali were at the Met, and ended up on at a pier on the Hudson River where I sat at a table talking to a woman that turned out to be HUGH JACKMAN'S publicist!! Not even kidding.
And she introduced me to him when he and his wife arrived for a party on said same pier 30 minutes later. Hearing him say "hello Michelle" in that purring Aussie accent--Yowza!
Definitely a birthday worth counting!
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