My sister, Gina, called me yesterday to tell me that Rob has to go to NYC in July for a week for work! AANNDD she gets to go with him. How jealous am I? Extremely. Of course, Delaney gets to stay here with us but I would still much rather be in New York on my dream vacation than here with three boys and a 3 year old, precious as she may be, that likes to sneak out of the house.
New York... where, in 2005, the population was 8,213,839...metro NYC was 18.8 million(there was only 3,844,829 in LA). A couple more facts I think are interesting...there's nearly 170 languages spoken in NY and some 4,000 mobile food vendors! I will definitely have to be a tourist and take as much in as I can but I also want to find the little 'inside' places that native New Yorkers frequent..that would be the really fun part.
The main thing I would focus on first would HAVE to be Broadway...I'd probably spend a lot of my time there.Of course, by the time I go my children will have graduated high school and Ben will have made us millionaires because that's probably the only way I'll ever get there. Anyway,
These are some of what I would like to see.....
Ok...I'm just gonna make a list of things that I would HAVE to see while in New York. If anyone reads this and wants to add more just leave me a comment. One day I will go to NY and I won't leave until everything on my list has been accomplished. This list is not in any certain order...I'm just going by what I think of first.
*Walk around and look at the brownstones and garden apartments...ok...so I like looking at the way other people live...not that I could go in any of those homes but seeing them on movies like You've Got Mail and When Harry Met Sally, they're just really cool looking.
*Go to Saxs Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, and Macys....not that I could afford anything there but I'd have to at least SAY I had been there. We don't have those kinds of stores where I live.
* FAO Schwarzto pick up something for the kids....
*Central Park
*SoHo
*Manhattan
*Harlem
*Carnegie Hall
*Madison Avenue
*Sotheby's
*Chinatown
*Little Italy
*Bronx/Yankee Stadium
*Brooklyn/Brooklyn Bridge
*Jersey City/Holland Tunnel
*Staten Island
*Long Island
*Queens/Shea Stadium
*Times Square/Rockefeller Center
Good grief I'll have to stay for a month to see everything that I want to see!
*American Folk Art Museum
*The Brooklyn Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
*Museum of Modern Art
*The Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island
*St. Pauls Chapel
*Savion Glover He is amazing!!
*Gotta ride the subway...
*Grand Central & Penn Stations
I've heard that if you take the ferry to *Memorial Park in Weehawken New York, you get one of the most gorgeous views of Manhattan so I want to go there.
*Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts/Metropolitan Opera/NYC Ballet etc.
*Sullivan Street Bakery*Wall Street and The New York Stock Exchange
*Empire State Building
*Chrysler Building
*World Trade Center Site
*Greenwich Village
*New York Public Library
Ok...so that's about it for now. I've got plenty of time to add to my list I guess. Maybe somebody out there reading this could put in a word with the hubby that he should add this to his budget.
New York....I would love to go to France or Italy...see the countryside and the vineyards but NY is a place where you can go and never run out of things to do. Or you could just stay holed up in a nice hotel and not see anything. But you have the choice. Cause it's New York-THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS.
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