Ferried to Liberty Island and Ellis Island for Statue of Liberty and the Immigration Hall on Ellis Island; Ground Zero where the Twin Towers once stood, now fenced around construction of the memorial park and Freedom Tower; Strolled around Financial District and Battery Park City
Got tickets for Avenue Q from TKTS, Times Square; Went up Empire State Observatory; Visited American Museum of Natural History and Rose Ctr; BTW, Avenue Q is really good! Very funny...a must watch Broadway! And you should really check him out - Howie Michael Smith haha 0:)
Flown to Buffalo Niagara for Niagara Falls American Tour; Went on Maid of the Mist (white boat with ppl in blue raincoats) Boat Trip which brought us really close up to the American Falls and Horseshoe Falls; Cave of the Winds trip - walked up some stairs really close to the falls; And of course, Buffalo Wings at Hard Rock Cafe
Walked along Boston Freedom Trail, Harvard and MIT campus; Lovely seafood with lobster meal @ Legal Seafoods and Quincy Market
More of NY, Columbus Circle, Lincoln Ctr...had Mexican at Rosa Mexicano, Korean at Seoul Garden, really yummy xiao long bao at Old Shanghai and cheesecake at Europa Cafe (with our unsuccessful search of Cheesecake Factory which might have really good NY cheesecakes!)
Shopping, shopping, shopping at Macy's (good stuff!), Soho & Broadway, Fifth Avenue(although it's more like admiring the shops and window shopping on this street); Cool shops with DJs in Guess and A/X; Sony Wonder Technology lab - fun place to experience things like TV broadcasting, Electronices stuff, video editing etc etc...it's free and you get a cert by the end of the so called self guided tour :). Other interesting shops: FAO Schwarz, MAC, NBA, Prada (haha). Oh yea we also took the bus from Port Authority to Woodbury Common, a factory outlet, has really good bargains!
Along Museum Mile, Guggenheim Museum which is depressingly under Exterior Construction :(, Metropolitan Museum of Art (has quite interesting combination of arts and artefacts exhibits); Central Park
a long sunday...
13 years ago