Friday, August 16, 2013

Day 7...!

Uuf-dah We are feeling the weariness of traveling by car. We left Maine this morning : ( 
Through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, & Connecticut ( about 6 hours).... We spent this afternoon/evening in NYC. Our plan was to see Central Park, Times Square, and then the 9/11 Memorial. After checking into our 5th hotel we left for Central Park. Our first NYC rookie mistake, not looking up good parking before we left!! Palm to forehead. First(!), we waited in traffic for a $13 toll for almost an hour just to get into Manhattan. We then crawled through Manhattan traffic for another hour looking for parking, we were stressed to the max. Finally we found a parking garage that was walking distance to Central Park and Times Square. Second rookie mistake, not reading how parking garage prices can jump by leaving your car there for 2 or more hours... OUCH. They cleverly only display their cheapest rate/shortest stay. 
Central Park is very pretty and makes for some great people watching. Sorry no pictures...it's a park with trees and grass... Right below sky scrapers. : ) did I paint a nice picture? 
We then walked to Times Square, even better people watching. We took a few pictures as we were walking... Please excuse the poor iPhone quality...




After dinner at Guy Fieri's, Guy's American kitchen and bar we made our way back to our car. 
Then drove about 20 minutes to 9/11 Memorial... 3rd rookie mistake, go during tour hours. We drove by a fenced in area because it is still under construction and could see nothing. Maybe if we had been more adventurous and drove a bit more we could have seen something but it was after 9pm and we were exhausted and tired of the car. So we drove another 25 minutes to our hotel. 

Tomorrow we are off to Hershey, PA to spend some time with 2 fabulous people. 




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