Barclay Broadcast Co.: New York, New York! [Day 2]

The morning of Sunday, November 21 dawned clear and cold in New York City. Heehee. I decided that early morning is my favorite time of day in the city. There is fresh energy and purposefulness in the air. So we layered up and headed out promptly at 8:00am in accordance with Jeremy's itinerary.

I had to have some coffee from Dean & Deluca first. It is highly overrated.

We passed the Times on the way to the subway.

My first ride on the subway. I thought it was cool.

We took the subway down to Battery Park and took the ferry to the Statue of Liberty.

Not as big as I thought she'd be. But still impressive.

Miss New York? Why yes, I do.

After walking around the outside of the statue and scoping out the gift shop, we took the ferry from Liberty Island to Ellis Island. As it turns out, the movie "Hitch" lied. There is no big book of signatures of immigrants that you can look at.

I liked this.

Check out this handsome tourist.

This is the most awesome view.

After getting back from Ellis Island, we walked over to Ground Zero.

There is a museum, but you really can't see anything from the site. There is scaffolding and canvas up everywhere that prevents you from looking in. This was disappointing because I really wanted some place of mourning to be left.

This is what it is suppsed to be look like when finished.

Next, we took a cab over to Mulberry Street and had lunch in Little Italy at this hole in the wall where Jeremy has eaten before.

Since Little Italy and Chinatown kind of melt into one another, we walked around and explored both.

I laughed at Jeremy for wanting a foot rub. Little did I know, we would each get one. And a back rub. Two nights in a row. :)

We walked to Soho, shopping street vendors along the way, and finding some delightful little treats too.

There were selling the mini-cupcakes out of this window. Mouthfuls of wonderment.

We went into so many stores in Soho. I really dug the area. This was the neatest shop and I didn't spend long enough here. I also regret not buying the book I was looking at for Noah and some other cute babies I know. :)

At some point around 2:00 or 3:00 that afternoon, we were worn out. We headed back to the hotel for a break, but went back to Chinatown by subway that evening to have the Chinese food I was craving.

We shared a table in this restaurant with a couple of Mexicans from Montreal. We laughed and told them we were Texans from West Virginia.

I bought a few cool accessories in Chinatown, we had massages in a dark basement ;), and then hitched a cab up to Herald Square. We intended to check out the Empire State Building but ended craning our necks up at it from the base, then going over to Macy's. THE Macy's.