Walking out our hotel lobby and being only blocks away from Times Square
and every Broadway show you could possibly imagine!

Can anyone guess how many “I Love NY”

T-shirts we all actually brought back?

Did anyone else start
to talk with a New York  
accent after day 3?

And did anyone actually
go inside  Madame Tussaud’s
Wax Museum?

Memorable Landmarks…

• visiting Lincoln Center and the new home of the Julliard School.

• visiting the World Trade Center site and seeing the construction underway for the new “Freedom Tower”.

• seeing the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall.

• taking the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and finding out why the statue is green afterall!

• walking the beautiful hallways of the American Museum of Natural History and watching a film at the IMAX inside the museum.

• visiting the Apollo Theatre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

INTERESTING FACTS…

* we were pleasantly surprised at how safe things actually were in the city.  Could it be because there were NYC police officers on almost every block? 

* Park Avenue, 5^th Avenue and Madison Avenue really ARE as gorgeous as you think they are!

* Yes, we saw the “Naked Cowboy” in Times Square and no, he’s not really naked!

* There are more pharmacies in New York than Starbucks coffee shops!

* Hmmm…are all NYC fire fighters & police officers as good-looking as they are in their calendars?  My sources all said YES!!!!!!

On Broadway!

Between us all we saw the following Broadway &

off-Broadway shows…

Wicked, Legally Blonde,
The Lion King, Chicago, Hairspray, Stomp, Rent, Les Miserables &  Altar Boyz
 

True musical theater

at its best!

BONUS!

Getting to watch the premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at the Regal Theatre!

EXTRA, EXTRA!

• a true New York hotdog from a street vendor was a must have during our stay!

• enjoying a horse-drawn carriage ride through Central Park was one of the more relaxing memories of New York!

• Tribeca, Soho and Greenwich Village quickly became our favorite shopping spots away from the craziness of Times Square.

• how many times did you eat at the deli across the street?

• Angela finally satisfied her Louis Vuitton obsession by visiting the New York boutique and bringing home some special goodies!

• The Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge were amazing sights for us to see!

* going inside Trump Towers where they film the boardroom scenes for
The Apprentice (and where the contestants live during the show). 
There really was gold everywhere in the building!

* enjoying fully narrated & guided tours of downtown New York,
 Brooklyn and Harlem from a double-decker sight-seeing bus
…watch out for those branches though!

* seeing the world-famous Plaza Hotel and the Dakota apartments
where John Lennon was assassinated in 1980.

* Oh, Katie & Julianne…remember when you asked me where the
nearest Starbucks was from our hotel?  I told you to walk down the
street a bit as there seemed to be a Starbucks on every corner,
but apparently there was one even closer…right in our hotel lobby! 
How did we all miss this one?!

* stopping by to see Engine 54 who lost 17 members of its
9^th battalion on Sept. 11, 2001.

* standing in line by 5:30am at NBC studios for the Today Show
with the  Penticton School of Dance banner!

* staying across the street from the David Letterman show but
not being able to answer those trick questions for tickets (Cindy & Michelle!)

And lastly, seeing Angela’s name on Broadway in bright lights after seeing the Broadway show “Wicked” was the greatest memory of all.  Thank you everyone for such an amazing gift, I will never forget it and I look forward to doing this with you all again!