NYC Vacay Part 2

On our third day in the NYC, Liz and Mike brought us to their community farm.

It was so freaking cool!!  They pay for a 1/2 a share and owe the community 9 hours of work over the course of the season.  Each week they get to take their 1/2 share of the food!

I have to say there was amazing looking veggies as you can see.

The view of the city from Governor's Island

After the veggies we headed over to Governor's Island for some lunch, biking, and Statue of Liberty viewing.  It was so great!

Jon and I rented bikes (which were so weird because it had pedal breaks vs. hand breaks).

Hi Mike!

I had never seen the Statue of Liberty before and I was a little underwhelmed.  I thought the statue was smaller than I had expected.  The photos all make it look so huge and in person it wasn't the same.   After checking out Lady Liberty we biked around the rest of the island and checked out all of the old buildings.  It was really interesting to see and think about how people used to actually live on the island.

We headed home and chilled for a bit before leaving to go to the Nitehawk Cinema to watch Moonrise Kingdom.  The theatre was cool because it is one of the dine in ones.  I enjoyed the food and the smore's pie for dessert.  The movie was pretty good.

When we got out of the theatre we realized how cool the building was!  We arrived early so it was still light outside.

We made a trip to a look out area to check out what the city looked like at night.  As we were walking up we heard what we thought were fireworks.

We were right!!  The party they were prepping for on Governor's Island was in full swing.  It was a Gay Pride something or other and they had decided to have fireworks.  It was great because we could see the Statue of Liberty AND the fireworks at the same time.  It was a pretty long show too!

After seeing the fireworks the skyline of the city at night looks pretty darn good too!

On our way home we took a mini tour of Red Hook.  We were not ready with the camera so this was the best shot we were able to take as we were driving by.

On our fourth day in the Big City, Jon and I ventured out on our own!  It was funny how I knew (remembered) how to get to the subway better than Jon!  We made it to the right stop and headed over to the 30 Rock Building.

We thought we were going to have to wait to get a ticket up to the top but we were pleasantly surprised that we were able to go right up!  The elevator ride was crazy!  I almost had my dizzy/sick feeling but luckily it went away quickly.  And yes, it is true you need to ride looking at the ceiling the whole time so you don't miss out.

The view was beautiful!!  I have been up very high to view skylines before in Las Vegas and this was just as amazing but completely different.  I could not believe just now many buildings there were.  And that you could pretty much see them all!!  You could see the Empire Statue Building, the Chrysler Building (which was hidden by the Met Life Building), and Times Square.  I was so happy there were difrerent levels so each view was just a little bit different.  Jon went picture taking crazy.  He also ran into one of his co-workers!  He couldn't believe it.

As we were walking through the levels we found a room where the lights on the ceiling followed you around and made noised.  It was so freaking cool!

I couldn't believe we had gone waaaaay up there!!!

After we left it was time for lunch.  Jon found a Chinese food place online and we hoped that it was going to be delicious.  It wasn't delicious, it was amazing.  When the rice arrived I was worried that Jon wouldn't like it.  With his first bite I could tell he was loving it.

We hit up Times Square and checked out the scene.  Jon went off and took some great shots of the buildings and what not.  I had been before and it was "old news" to me. :)

On our way back home we saw this really interesting building.  It was beautiful.  There were numbers all the way to the left (the ones in the middle changing super crazy).  A guy overhead us talking about it and explained it all to us.  The numbers were in military time, then the crazy numbers were the milliseconds, and the last set was a count down until midnight.  It was amazing.  The center sculpture represents the beginning of the Earth and basically how it was created.  The hand of God at the tippy top (a representation of being the Father of the Earth) was pointing directly at the statue of George Washington (a representation of being the Father of our Country) across the street.  Both of their hands are shaped the same and pointing at each other.  The last part is the little gold ball.  It shows the phases of the moon!  I wished we could have been there at night to see it and how accurate it was.

After all our walking around we headed home and were rewarded by going out to eat pizza!  Yes, I admit I was not gluten-free conscious for this meal.  I had decided that I would have a NY pizza and deal with possible headache later (luckily no headache!).  And holy crap it was totally the best pizza ever.  Oh and yes, Jon and I ate the whole thing...

There is more fun stuff to share next week. :)