The night before, we had been driving for 7 hours, stopping for burgers 3/4 of the way to Coldspring NY (where we were staying the night). We were staying in Coldspring because then we'd have more time in NYC if we just took the 45 minute train trip on either sides of the trip. We almost didn't get on the train until my mom yelled at us that the train was moving so we jumped on as it was about to leave the station. Excitement already? It was promising, not that the trip already wasn't...anyways, the trip in was really nice, lots of river-side towns. When we got into actual NYC we went through Harlem, which funny enough, looked a lot like Montreal QC.
When we finally arrived in Grand Central Station it just hit me that "wow I'm in New York City". It was really crazy, I was so excited for the next few days. We then went straight to out hotel; the Belvedere, and checked out luggage. We took the camera and set off for times square & fifth ave. Both were almost exactly the way they are in the movies (except we were seeing times square in the morning).
After browsing on fifth ave for a bit we headed over to central park. Even in the winter central park's still really beautiful. We walked for a really long time, just checking out the sculptures, fountains, bridges, etc that are all fabulous.
As we walked on for a while past the trees and the fountain we came to the central park zoo. We didn't pay to go in but we were able to peek in in a few places to see the seals swimming and jumping around in their infinite edge pool. After walking through the central park zoo, we walked in a loop around the lake and went to the Belvedere castle on the hill which gave a really cool view of the great lawn. While marveling the view, it started to rain again (it had been raining on and off all day) so we decided to start to head back to the hotel.
While leaving central park, we passed by strawberry fields and it's "mayor", who's a homeless man who restocks the "Imagine" memorial for John Lennon with fresh flowers. I think that it's really cool that he buys flowers with the money he earns for John Lennon, people there really did love him. Supposedly Mike Meyers comes there all the time to check out his work. After we crossed the street to visit John Lennon's apartment building and where he got shot. It was creepy knowing I was standing in the exact place he died. It was a really nice apartment building in a fancy neighborhood looking over central park.
We started our walk back to the hotel, looking into all the amazing stores on our way. We got to the hotel and checked out the room and just chilled for a while. After about an hour, we put our shoes on again and set off to see times square at night and to find a restaurant. Times Square is absolutely crazy at night, when you look at the sky it's illuminated by all the lights. There are so many things to look at, and the m&m store screen is the biggest, most distracting screen I've ever seen. We also snook a look at the radio city music hall which was playing host to Ozzie Osbourne that night (no, unfortunately we did NOT go :P). After Times Square, we headed over to "Hell's Kitchen" (a restaurant district) to find us some eatin'. After weighing all our options, we decided on "Azteca" which served traditional mexican food. I decided to be adventurous and order Molé (chocolate chicken) which was really delicious and doesn't really taste like chocolate. After, we just came back to the hotel and watched 3 consecutive episodes of "What Not To Wear". They really got me pumped for NYC Shopping the next day!
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