New York Day 5

Holly Cow. Our friends left this morning and we took off to go to the museum of Modern Art. On the top floor I came upon a video that had drawing of this weird looking house that stopped me in my tracks. I quickly looked around and found a model in the picture below.

When I was a Junior in high school we found this freaky looking mechanical green house up on the hill across the canyon and it has puzzled us for eight years. The exhibit said it was some weird art project of the adaptable house. At least we finally know.

After the museum we were pretty tired and went to Chinatown for a quick stop then decided to go back up to Yankee Stadium to get pictures around the stadium.
Here's the new Yankee Stadium
While walking down the we decided to get scalped tickets and go on in.

And since we had tickets up behind the plate we walked all around the stadium taking pictures

There's Mariano down below my finger in the middle.

The money Shot. behind the plate is much better than the bleachers.

Opening pitch by Carl Pavano who I lovingly call El Pavo (The Turkey because he's always getting out of pitching)

The Best part of the game was when we were up 2-1 in the top of the eighth with two on and no outs and they brought in Edwar Ramirez and he struck the guy out. The stadium seemed so dead just expecting him to blow it but then the coach took the ball from him and we all saw Mariano coming out of the bulpen. Enter Sandman stuck up on the PA and the stadium went bazzurck. It was loader than when we scored runs or anything else. First pitch was a groundout and then he struckout someone to end the inning. He got two more strikeouts in the ninth and a groundout and the celebration continued. It was so worth it to go to another game we had a blast.



We made a real quick run to times square to see the lights and get Stina more Cheese cake when we ran into this nice piece of scenery. I knew it was in New York but I had no idea where. and we found it. It's very very sad. That's nine trillion if you're wondering.



Bye Bye New York we had the time of our lives and saw so much and did so much were headed home in the morning and will remember this for the rest of our lives.

New York Day 4

We began the morning looking for Srendipity III but found Dylan's Candy Bar on the way. It was an amazing place of amazing wonderful goodness!
Of course Christina loved it, but showed amazing self control when she bought NOTHING!



Then we found Serendipity where Christina and our friends Emily and Renn tried thier Frozen hot Chocolate (Taylor thought it was a fudgecicle--but the girls insisted it was much more)!


Then we went to the Schwartz toy store where Christina found a toy piano like the one in big where she tried to play chopstix (Taylor wouldn't get on...he was afraid he'd break it).



Schwartz was amazing! The lego section in the store have life size Star Wars characters as well as Harry Potter Characters!


Next we went to Carnegie deli for the best Pastrami sandwich and cheesecake EVER! The service was pretty pathetic but the food was amazing (the waiter disappeared and when we asked other waiters for help they ignored us so we started to just pick stuff up like we were going to leave he came back in and acted all polite giving us a reciept on which we were required to give him a $10 dollar tip since we were "5 people" when really we were four and a baby who hadn't eaten. So we went to the front to pay, explained we were only four and DENIED the horrible waiter a tip! HA!


Next we went to the American Museum of Natural History. We didn't have long so we had to go really fast, but it was cool. Lots of animals and examples of how people lived around the world.
It was fun seeing things that had been in the "Night at the Museum" movie with Ben Stiller!




In chile they told Taylor that these existed...Taylor figured it was a joke.


Seeing an example of the Mois was cool.


After the museum we were WAY tired so we headed over to the park and sat and watched people rowing on of the lakes nearby.

New York Day 3

This morning we started with the Guggenhiem Museum. It was an amazing piece of architecture. The exhibit in it was for Louise Bougouis, a french artist. There was also an exhibit on the testing being done on Renard's black paintings. Taylor especially liked it because of the chemistry aspect of the tests.




Next we went to the Metropolitan Museum. Here Taylor shows how similar he is to the Greeks' examples of perfect men.

Stina did the same in the Roman exhibit.

Here we both tried to blend in with the Southeast Asian exhibit.


There was also an exhibit about the affect that comic book costumes have on fashion. Here Taylor poses with the Batman costume (not a dream...a career possibility).




Here Taylor sees an example in how to grab a Bull by the horns.


Next we were off to Yankee Stadium for the Yankee vs. the Red Sox game.



Taylor wore the Yankee Poncho Brandy and Ildy got him in Mexico. Everyone thought it was sooo cool!



We were dressed to kill...or at least WIN! The Yankees however lost to the Sox 11-2.

New York Day 2

Day 2 started off with us sleeping in a bit; like 12 hours of sleep. It felt goooood! We wanted to get down to the empire state building early to avoid lines but that didn't happen. The line was suppose to be an hour and a half long but since we bought these cool city-passes to see all the sights they bumped us to the front of the line. And up we went 80 floors and then about 6 more. It was fun looking our over this humongous city. Two things we have noticed about the city. The subway gets more white as you get closer to downtown and there doesn't seem to be fat people in New York. Seriously, maybe everybody has to walk so much. Also people seem to dress much more modestly than in LA.







After the morning we returned to the apartment to meet Stina's friends Emily, Renn, and Oliver; our dental friends from Philadelphia. We tried to get show tickets but the place didn't open early enough and we had to meet our friends. We took off down to Greenwich (pronounced grin icth) to walk around and get some cupcakes from Magnoilia Bakery. They were really good. Stina thought they were heaven though. Obviously I'm a guy and had the chocolate and she had Key Lime .

So as we walked back from the bakery we passed one of MANY flower shops. But there were some blue roses that caught Stina's eye so she called Emily over to have a look and when she lifted up the reed curtain (on the left of the pic) some vases full of water and sunflowers fell all over her! She immediately yelled , "I didn't toucdh anything, it wasn't me!" We all laughed since no one else had been near her. The owner came out and put the stuff back up and gave Stina some paper towels to wipe herself off. Her she is trying to dry off one of her shoes.


We thought this looked cool as we walked down Canal street in Chinatown but all it is is the entrance to some bridge into the Bronx.
We tried to go to a Chinese restaurant recommended by Kyndra but it was closed down. We found another really nice place around the corner and I went to town on that stuff.

Luckily we found Wicked tickets online at the last minute and got all dressed up for the occasion. We got to see it in the eight row but over on the side. They were great seats in the Gertshwin Theater.

New York Day 1

Our first day started out extremely groggy seeing that we flew out of Salt Lake at midnight and landed in New York at 6:30 am EST. So after 2 hours of subway we made it to Doug's apartment and fell right asleep for a few hours. We had a boat ride around Manhattan that started at 3:30. When we got to the pier we realized that we could take a speed boat out instead.
That was definitely the better choice considering we got to see the same sights and got to them faster. The guide was also hilarious. He had an array of water guns that he kept surprising the guests with. We had a load a fun.

The Statue of Liberty was not as big as I thought; especially with the New York Skyline behind us.


We didn't get to stop off at Ellis Island but it looks like some sort of middle eastern Alcatraz.


It was sad to be reminded of what was missing from the skyline.


We were sure to get a fat slice of New York pizza. It was really good.

We went walking around and wandered over to Times Square.



Doug and Kyndra recommended this romantic restaurant ironically named PO. In Chile they add the word po onto most everything the say. (this is sort of our anniversary dinner)
The food was truly amazing! We couldn't read most of the menu so the waitress had to explain what things were...even then Stina couldn't decide what to eat...finally the waitress suggested the white bean ravioli, I got sausage ragu. It was AMAZING!