...in New York city. :wsmile:
I haven't been posting as much lately as I've been very busy with work. :tinysmile_cry_t: I do log in every morning when I wake up and every evening before I go to sleep though, just to keep up with what's happening. :icon_thum
This week we did a school out on Long Island. On Wednesday night we got some free time and took the train into the city. We were only there for about 4 hours, but it was really fun. Before then, I had only driven through New York once on a very cloudy night at 4 o'clock in the morning, so this trip was the first time I'd ever been there and actually seen anything. :gar-La; Here are a few pics. They were all taken with my cell phone, so some of them didn't turn out as well as I would've liked, but here goes.
We flew into Newark, where we had left our van the previous week. Then we drove out to Long Island. This picture was taken from I-278 in Brooklyn, looking at Manhattan. That's the Brooklyn bridge and the Empire State Bldg over the right side of the bridge.
Here I am (with my NCWWer hat on :wink_smil) in Times Square.
This is the other side of Times Square. That's the ball that drops on New Year's Eve. I tell you what, I've never heard more foreign languages in one place in my life. It was something else.
Here is a fuzzy one of where the ice rink and Christmas tree will be in a few months. Right now it is a bar and we stopped there for a pint.
ccasion1
Lego store!!???!??? :swoon: Couldn't resist. :gar-La;
Radio City Music Hall.
It was a good time. To be honest, I don't think we even covered a 1 mile loop in our couple of hours. That's a good thing because that means there's tons more to explore in the future. Two things that really impressed me were:
1. The train/subway system: It is hard to imagine the foresight that the city planners had 100 years ago when they started the subway system. You see all of this stuff and all of these places, but you don't even think about the fact that there are trains moving thousands of people under your feet.
2. Great folks: The students at our school were probably the nicest group I've had yet. They were very motivated to learn and we had some great conversations. Also, the other folks we came into contact with outside of the school were very nice. I have to admit, I was intimidated a little bit going up there, sitting down in front of a crowd of people with a microphone and doing a class. You know, it is New York? :swoon: But I was very impressed with how nice everyone was. :thumbs_up:thumbs_up
At the end of the day though, it sure felt great to look out the window of the plane and see Raleigh. NYC is a great place. Definitely fun to visit, but NC is my favorite place on the planet and it's great to be back. :icon_thum
BTW- We're up there next week too and will probably get a few hours during the day time to take a few shots. I'm planning on taking the good camera and our plan is to go up to the observation deck at Rockefeller Center and take some "aerial" shots. I'll update this thread if that happens. Thanks for looking.
I haven't been posting as much lately as I've been very busy with work. :tinysmile_cry_t: I do log in every morning when I wake up and every evening before I go to sleep though, just to keep up with what's happening. :icon_thum
This week we did a school out on Long Island. On Wednesday night we got some free time and took the train into the city. We were only there for about 4 hours, but it was really fun. Before then, I had only driven through New York once on a very cloudy night at 4 o'clock in the morning, so this trip was the first time I'd ever been there and actually seen anything. :gar-La; Here are a few pics. They were all taken with my cell phone, so some of them didn't turn out as well as I would've liked, but here goes.
We flew into Newark, where we had left our van the previous week. Then we drove out to Long Island. This picture was taken from I-278 in Brooklyn, looking at Manhattan. That's the Brooklyn bridge and the Empire State Bldg over the right side of the bridge.
Here I am (with my NCWWer hat on :wink_smil) in Times Square.
This is the other side of Times Square. That's the ball that drops on New Year's Eve. I tell you what, I've never heard more foreign languages in one place in my life. It was something else.
Here is a fuzzy one of where the ice rink and Christmas tree will be in a few months. Right now it is a bar and we stopped there for a pint.
ccasion1
Lego store!!???!??? :swoon: Couldn't resist. :gar-La;
Radio City Music Hall.
It was a good time. To be honest, I don't think we even covered a 1 mile loop in our couple of hours. That's a good thing because that means there's tons more to explore in the future. Two things that really impressed me were:
1. The train/subway system: It is hard to imagine the foresight that the city planners had 100 years ago when they started the subway system. You see all of this stuff and all of these places, but you don't even think about the fact that there are trains moving thousands of people under your feet.
2. Great folks: The students at our school were probably the nicest group I've had yet. They were very motivated to learn and we had some great conversations. Also, the other folks we came into contact with outside of the school were very nice. I have to admit, I was intimidated a little bit going up there, sitting down in front of a crowd of people with a microphone and doing a class. You know, it is New York? :swoon: But I was very impressed with how nice everyone was. :thumbs_up:thumbs_up
At the end of the day though, it sure felt great to look out the window of the plane and see Raleigh. NYC is a great place. Definitely fun to visit, but NC is my favorite place on the planet and it's great to be back. :icon_thum
BTW- We're up there next week too and will probably get a few hours during the day time to take a few shots. I'm planning on taking the good camera and our plan is to go up to the observation deck at Rockefeller Center and take some "aerial" shots. I'll update this thread if that happens. Thanks for looking.
