*NYC*Andrea and I have enjoyed some lovely big city traveling this year. We started off with a trip to NYC with her mom and her mom's friend, Nancy. A fun time was had by all. We started out in Little Italy (after driving into the city and fighting traffic and checking into our hotel - only blocks from Times Square!). The first night we walked through Times Square and it was amazing - my first time there! We also went to the top of the Empire State Building (which I kept wanting to call the Eiffel Tower) at night.
Friday we spent doing a bus tour of downtown and then took a ferry to Staten Island where we saw the Statue of Liberty and the skyline from the water. We saw sooo much that day, too much to list 
but we did go to Rockefellar Center and saw the ice skaters and NBC studios. Walked through St. Patrick's Cathedral, went to the Museum of Modern Art, went to Serendipity. Saturday we did the Uptown loop of the bus tour and saw Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harlem, and got tickets for a Broadway play. We saw "A Chorus Line" that night which was really awesome, but a much smaller theater than I was imagining.
but we did go to Rockefellar Center and saw the ice skaters and NBC studios. Walked through St. Patrick's Cathedral, went to the Museum of Modern Art, went to Serendipity. Saturday we did the Uptown loop of the bus tour and saw Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harlem, and got tickets for a Broadway play. We saw "A Chorus Line" that night which was really awesome, but a much smaller theater than I was imagining.Sunday we went to Chinatown and heard the words "Gucci, Dolce, Coach....chanel" over and over and it was hilarious but also overwhelming because the women were asking us to buy stuff literally before we stepped out of the cab. We also saw FAO Schwartz and the giant piano from the movie Big and went into Tiffany's. All in all a great trip. :) My first trip to NYC will not be my last. There's still so much to see.
*DC*
We met up with friends (Pat, Erin, Amber, me, Andrea, and Jen) in Alexandria because I was teaching some kids at a private school a lesson about the Bay and rays.
So after teaching, they put me up in a swanky hotel in Old Town Alexandria and we decided we should make a weekend out of it. Andrea came up, Amber was there visiting some friends and we all went out Friday night. Then, on Saturday Andrea and I went to the Holocaust Museum in DC, she had a giant eggroll (Andrea I almost put the picture up here), and we headed back. We stayed on just one little block of downtown DC but it was fun and something that we have been talking about going to for a long time. The museum was really great and I highly recommend it!
So after teaching, they put me up in a swanky hotel in Old Town Alexandria and we decided we should make a weekend out of it. Andrea came up, Amber was there visiting some friends and we all went out Friday night. Then, on Saturday Andrea and I went to the Holocaust Museum in DC, she had a giant eggroll (Andrea I almost put the picture up here), and we headed back. We stayed on just one little block of downtown DC but it was fun and something that we have been talking about going to for a long time. The museum was really great and I highly recommend it!It's been a great year of traveling with my buddy so far and definitely looking forward to our next big city - San Francisco in the fall!
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