Friday, January 26, 2007

New York Trip - Part 1

What a busy time in New York! It was an amazing trip. The Average temperature during our stay was about 0, 1 degree. On Thursday it actually went up to 4 or so. We spent most of our time walking around to different sites. I'd say we walked 6 or 7 hours a day.
We went to Central Park.

We visited the Guggenheim Gallery (which is having it's exterior restored)

It is a mostly circular building with art pieces displayed on the walls as you walk up in the spiral. On each floor there are also rooms with art. We must have seen over 30 Picassos. Amazing!


We visited the Empire State Building. All the up to the Observation Deck over 100 floors up. What a view!


In the picture below, the Financial District is located where all the tall buildings are (top of the picture). The World Trade Center Towers were once located here.


This is the actual site where the two towers once stood. It is very eerie here and very quiet. There is alot of construction going on at the site. You can't help but feel sad.





We visited Rockefeller Centre, which was a few blocks away from us. We didn't have our skates with us so we didn't actually go on the ice.

I'll add more pictures tomorrow.

1 comment:

jockjock said...

- i used the same word to describe the site of the twin towers: eerie.
- did you take the stairs to go up the empire state building? :)
- note to self: find a skating rink in rome
- both of you look nicely bundled up in the last pic