My day in Manhattan

So on Friday, after I had worked the past four days, Michael decides that I need to experience his fabulous walking tour of Manhattan. We start out at Ground Zero. I took this picture from one of the covered breezeways. In the background, there are two posters showing the complete project in 2012. There's going to be 7 towers at the site in remembrance of that day. It was amazing in a very tragic sense to be standing so close. Seeing the streets around the surrounding buildings brought back images of the news coverage that day when people where running and the clouds of smoke everywhere. It was so surreal! We also saw the FDNY 357, I think, that was right beside the Twin Towers. The station is now a memorial site as well.
Of course, what tour of Manhattan wouldn't be complete without a little shopping. We went into Century 21, which is one giant discount store with all different name brands. It was crazy busy!! We didn't stay too long. We walked up Canal Street, which is full of vendors and lone guys standing on the streets wearing a "Rolex" that you can just walk up to and buy. Then we rode the subway on over to Time Square and ate at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co. Restaurant. Now reenergized we walked up to 5th Avenue past the Rockafellerr Center, The Plaza, Trump Towers and every ritzy store there is. There was a huge crowd outside of Abercrombie and Finch. Probably some model or celeb in there. We ended at Central Park. But it was getting kinda late. So I just took a couple of pictures before we headed home. Gorgeous!!

I walked half of Manhattan

The above pic is a view of the empire state building. The shot kinda reminds me of a scene out of the movie Independence Day, write before the aliens attack . Since Megan has been working the last few days she told me to write a blog about what I have done. Well the cable people called again and told us it would still be about a week before they could "turn on" our cable for t.v. and internet. So yesterday I decided to do a little exploring in Manhattan. I started at the southern point where Ground Zero is, and made my way north. I stopped off at this street called Canal St. For those of you who do not know, a large majority of it is basically Chinatown. Its were you go to buy cheap souvenirs or a really inexpensive Rolex. After Canal St. I stayed on Broadway still heading north. I passed by NYU, Union SQ, Madison SQ Garden, and Times SQ.
While cutting across to 5th Ave. I saw NBC and the Rockefeller Center. 5th Ave. had all those high priced stores like Tiffany's and Debeers; but also Trump Towers. By the time I ended 5th Ave. I had reached Central Park. I decided to call it a day and head back on the F train to go home. The below pics are some of the other shots I got.

It's Saturday Night Live!!


The Plaza Hotel


I don't see a drive through


My favorite Stop

Bread and butter

This is a shot from one of the stops on the F train. This is the train that runs just a block and a half from where we live and it runs all the way into Manhatten. It's the closest train stop to where I work now, which is nice because I get on the train and ride it for about 45 minutes. I don't have to worry with any transfers or other hassles. Life is good!! Today was actually my first day at MSKCC (the hospital I work at). It was a day of computer lectures and hospital policies complete with lots of test. Starting tomorrow, I'll be on the pediatric unit for three days in a row and then switch over to nights for the remainder of my contract. So I'm a working girl again. Or as Michael's mom likes to say and I love this "bread and butter winner"!!!

First week

So here are the first pictures of New York City and a cool video that Michael shot of our new place. The reason he's showing you all our closet and stuff is that he's kinda proud at the amount of storage we made in this little apartment. So here's the last week. We left Magnolia a week ago this Sunday and drove two long days through TN, VA, WV, MD, PA, and NJ. Finally we arrived in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning and spent three long days unpacking and organizing our lives and building our new furniture. Yes, I said build. For those of you who don't get out much, IKEA is a fabulous furniture store where you pick out the pieces you like and pick them up in the warehouse the same day to check out. We had already been to IKEA and had the delivery all set up before we even arrived in NYC, which was very nice. We had our first dinner in the new place (tacos!!) on Thursday. Yum!! Friday was Michael's birthday so we walked over to the park. There's tons of neat little places to eat. We stopped at this Italian place, mostly because it started to rain and of course we didn't have an umbrella. We shared this platter of different meats like meatballs, stuffed chicken and some kind of sausage all over pasta. It was super good! Then we met up with friends and taxied over to The Chocolate Room for dessert. We had a hot brownie with a scoop of ice cream and hot fudge drizzled all over it. It's gonna be our new spot!!! Then we met up with even more friends and played bachi ball at this cool hall/tavern. That was pretty interesting to watch. So these pictures are actually from last night. We went up to Time's Square to the ESPN Zone for dinner and to watch free football/Olympics/baseball. You see, Michael and I have a TV but the cable people have to come survey our apartment before they can set us up; never mind that the other two apartments in this house have cable. Kinda frustrating! So for now we're stuck to DVDs. Anyways, back to Time's Square. Crazy busy!!!! We had to go through Penn Station to leave because their working on our subway line this weekend. That was an adventure! We nearly got trampled! I should have taken a picture of how packed it was down there. But guess what...there's a KMart down there. How bizzare, right? But life is going to be okay up here. I found an Old Navy and Target beside each other!!!! Well, I start work tomorrow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center! I'm so excited about this! I hope I do a good job at this hospital.

Our Apartment

Welcome to our humble abode!
This is a tour of our Apartment near Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

A Night Out on the Town

Outside of ESPN Zone in Time Sqare