Side trip to NYC (DC Trip Day 1!!)

So here it is...the long awaited Washington DC pictures! We had so much fun and saw so many things that it's impossible to put up all of our pictures and it would be ridiculous to try and get it all to fit into one post. So in order to try to make this easy for me to write and for you to enjoy, I will be breaking posts up into days and what we did each day. It is possible that soon I will even have to break the days up into parts because we crammed so much stuff in to one day. So bear with me since this could turn out to be a very long post...without further ado, here we go!

We left Seattle about 9 o'clock on the morning of September 11th, 2010. We flew first down to Albuquerque, changed planes and then left for Baltimore. We ended up landing just as the sun was setting and it was really pretty. We then took the train from the airport to Union Station in DC then took the monorail to Dupont Circle and then walked to our B&B (Akwaba Bed & Breakfast - They were absolutely amazing and I would highly recommend them if you travel to any 4 of their locations).

This is what it looked like when we came out of the tunnel up to the street level of Dupont Circle.









After we dropped our stuff off, we went to go eat and then head to bed because we had an early morning the next day (especially for us because it was 3 hours earlier than we were used to!)

We left early the next morning and got on the bus for New York at 8:00am (5:00am our time...Eek!)

Here we are...in Maryland!

And now New Jersey... 

And FINALLY New York (4+ hours later)

Welcome to NYC!!
We walked right up next to Macy's on 34th where they stop and do performances for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! And there were lots and lots of taxis!
Off We Go!!

Broadway! Someday I would like to go back and see the Lion King.

The 2010 ball they dropped on the New Year. 

 

 

                                                                          Standing in Central Park

 

Trump International Hotel and Tower (this was ridiculously tall)

So here's something weird that happened. As you can see in the pictures above, it just looks like a little cloud over but overall it's not bad. Still mostly clear, you could still see the tops of all the skyscrapers (which is saying a lot). So we get on the subway (which was totally fun and super fast!) at Central Park and when we come out just outside the 9/11 memorial it's raining and the clouds had dropped so you couldn't see very well. I couldn't believe it!

September 11th Memorial. The new tower going in will be really big.

 

 

 

 

 

 If you can believe it, the statue of liberty is out there in the center. It's the darker spot of fog :)

That's right...it's the Batmobile!

The NY Stock Exchange on Wall Street

At this point we were fairly wet but we decided that we would just walk around some more and find something to eat (we hadn't eaten anything since breakfast at 7:30 or so) because it was getting later into the evening. We ended up walking all the way up to SoHO and we were thoroughly soaked. We got on a subway from there and ended up back in Times Square. We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe (my first experience...pretty awesome to thing that the first time I ate at Hard Rock was in NYC Times Square) and then got back on the bus. We got back to the B&B really late, but it was totally worth it!

All in all, we saw quite a bit of stuff when we were in NY for only one day. I can't believe all the stuff that we saw and how much more we missed out on. Such a big city. Obviously we took hundreds of pictures but these are mostly the highlights of the trip. 

Stay tuned for days 2-10!