NYC Overnighter

Tom had cataract surgery in Bethesda the morning of the 26th which went well.  We hadn't eaten so after he was finished we found a funky little diner that looked good so we stopped in for breakfast.  It was yummy as expected.  Nothing like a Mom and Pop diner!

So we had a few gifts for Taylor (including a camera we didn't want to mail) so we headed to NYC on the 27th after Tom had to check in for a follow up appt. in Virginia.   We decided to try a different route to NYC as the one we usually take costs us $70 in toll fees.  It was a lovely day as we drove through Gettysburg and Pennsylvania Dutch country.

Arrived in NYC and checked in our hotel before hopping the subway to go see Taylor at his new job.

 He's running this coffee kiosk at this new Harley Davidson on Broadway that just opened a couple of weeks ago.

 Mariah is visiting from UT for the week (they made those plans before he got this job) so we took her out to do a little site seeing.  We wandered Broadway and headed to Chinatown.  Found a cute Scholastic Store that would be an awesome place to work.  Surrounded by kid's books!

 After Taylor got off work we headed to Times Square and Rockefeller Center.  I'm pretty sure we couldn't have picked a busier Friday night to try and see the city.  Honestly, I could go on for 3 pages about how much I hate crowds but let's just say it didn't take long for us to decide that after trying to find a place to have dinner here……we were better off going back to Brooklyn.

We did find a lovely, small place for dinner.  I didn't take nearly enough photos as I was tired and cold and really just looking forward to going home.  After dinner we walked over to our hotel so Taylor could open his gifts.  No close subway and we didn't want to lose our parking place so they hopped a cab to go back to his place.

The next morning Taylor had to work so we checked out of our hotel and drove to Taylor's to pick up Mariah.  We started out to find the subway to head into Manhattan and got completely lost.  After about 45 minutes of walking around in Brooklyn we took a break at a bakery.  Had a snack and re-grouped.  Found the subway and stopped in to say hi to Taylor before heading to the 9/11 Memorial.  Again, there were a bazillion people people in line and none of us wanted to see it enough to endure the crowds so we just walked over and saw the new World Trade Center building and stopped in St. Paul's which is across the street.

Now none of that sounds like it would take very long but as everything is a hassle in this city it was past lunch time by the time we got back to Taylor.  We opted to get them each a tour bus pass good for 4 days that would take them all over the city and if they felt like hopping off they could.  It was also something Mariah could do on her own while Taylor worked as she wasn't really keen about heading out by herself on foot in the city.  We grabbed a 99 cent slice of pizza for all of us then Tom and I hit the subway to get back to the car and headed home.  Again, we opted for a non-toll way home but our phone GPS took us a completely different way through Trenton NJ, Delaware and who knows where else as it was dark.  We were both pretty grumpy and decided this is the last time we're doing a 24 trip to New York.