Goodbye East Coast

Tonight is our last night on the east coast. We fly out in the morning and will get back to Klamath tomorrow night. I still have a lot of pictures and comments I want to add in to the blog posts I've already done. Once I'm home and can do some editing on a computer that should be easy. Until then, this has been a good way for me to keep track of our memories as we go along. It's been an awesome trip and a great experience for our family.



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Not the KF Library

The New York Public Library is only a few blocks from Grand Central, so we made a quick stop by to take some pictures. The library itself was closed, but there were chairs around outside so people could just hang out. There was also a guy playing the piano under the trees; it's a cool environment.

Location:Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788

Knishes, etc.

We went to the East Village and had knishes at Yonah Schimmel's. Yum.








Then on to Grand Central. It's beautiful!

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Location:E 46th St,,United States

Empire State Building

This is our last day in NYC and we are going to stay as long as we can before heading to our hotel by the airport. We ate breakfast with Liz, Eric, and the kids this morning, then headed to the Empire State Building. I'm not a big fan of the area around it...Korea Town? Dirty and crowded. There's also the gay pride parade down here today, so there are extra people (and lots of rainbows).
Anyway, we're waiting in line going up to the top of the building (eating some of our fudge from Dylan's Candy Bar).

Here are some pictures from up high...














The views from the top were really amazing, but we all agreed that the whole Empire State Building experience was probably our least favorite of the trip- very commercialized.

Now we're off to a different neighborhood to get a knish and a drink. After that, it's on to Grand Central Station, then who knows...
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Location:W 71st St,,United States

Yankees game

I'm not a super huge baseball fan, but I LOVE live baseball games- such a cool atmosphere.























Final score...8-3


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Location:E 162nd St,Bronx,United States

Purl Soho

A little yarn getaway for Liz and me... Lots of prettiness-












Then, a little downtime for the kids at our place-











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Location:459 Broome Street New York NY 10013 United States

Statue of Liberty

Lady Liberty-











The original torch-





Actual size face-











The kids...and the Lady-











A break in the action-





The big people (photo by Jacob)-






Manhattan skyline from Liberty Island-






Final view-




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Location:Liberty Island, NY

Ellis Island

Ellis Island was interesting. It's pretty amazing to think what people were renouncing to come to the U.S





































Now, off to the Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty-





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Location:Ellis Island, NY

Bruno Mars and the Today Show

Jacob and I got up early and took the subway to the Today Show at Rockefeller Plaza for the Bruno Mars concert. The concert isn't until 8:30, but we got here early enough for the warm up run through which was cool! We heard the Lazy Song and Just the Way You Are and others so we were happy. Here's the view of part of the crowd.





Also, here's a little, poorly done and unedited video, but at least you can hear (kinda) Bruno singing Just the Way You Are.

Then we got vanilla lattes at Starbucks, watched a little tennis at "Wimbledon at the Rock," and no we're off to meet Jason, Spencer, and my brother and his family to go to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.


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Location:W 50th St,,United States

Sugar, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo...

Three floors of candy...nothing more needs to be said.








All with jelly beans for the framed picture below-





It's a big bag, so it doesn't look like too much damage.








On a side note, we went briefly to Niketown right after the candy store and Spencer saw these cool art apple sculptures-





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