New Jersey - New York -- Part II

On Day 1, Saturday, we met in the city around 2:30. Some of the group is originally from Connecticut and New York so the NY style pizza was something they wanted to have... every day. Last time Alicia and I went to NY City, we found this good little pizza place right by Port Authority so that was our first stop on Saturday night.

Our next stop was going to be the Museum of Natural History.

We headed down to the Subway, got our subway passes and waited for the train. We got onto a train that we thought was the one we wanted until we heard the word "express" - at that time, we immediately got OFF the train. (no wonder the millions of people waiting for the train didn't seem as excited it arrived as we did).

After waiting for a while, we decided to just forget about the Museum for that night and just head up to Times Square. The Museum would have been closed anyway by the time we actually found it (it was after 5 at this point).

This is just a goofy picture on a set of red stairs in Times Square

Cruising down 5th Ave, we saw this statue so we did one of those things where it

looks like you are holding it up... well, we tried to make it look that way.

Across the street from the statue thing was this awesome church building.

And of course, we had to take a picture of the Plaza Hotel. We waited around to see if any celebrities came out, but none did. Oh well.

Ok, if anyone can tell me how one of these things work....

it's some sort of parking structure where the cars are all stacked up...

I have no idea how it works!

As we were approaching Rockefeller Center, Alicia and I spotted a Christmas tree and started freaking out because we thought it was "the" Rockefeller Christmas Tree. As we got closer, we learned it was just the tree on top of the Radio City building... it was like, half a tree. It's hard to tell in this pic, but it was definitely NOT the tree we thought.

So, apparently this is what a chesnut looks like. I had no idea what these things were so I finally asked. I wanted to try one but you had to buy a $5 bag; you couldn't just try 1. Oh well.

At the end of the day, we stopped at another pizza place and made a list of all the things we wanted to do over the next few days (on a paper plate).

More to come...