NYC - Day 4

On this day, Curtis woke up feeling sick.  This was a real bummer because it seems like one of us always ends up getting sick whenever we travel.  We took it easy in the morning and then we went to the NBC Studios tour!

We weren't allowed to take pictures on the tour, so we snapped some shots of both of us holding our tickets.

We got to see Dr. Oz's set, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon's set and the Saturday Night Live set!  It was pretty cool and probably one of our favorite parts of the trip!

We decided to try to get discounted Broadways tickets through TKTS.  While I waited in the long line, Curtis was sweet and got us pizza from a place called Patzeria's Pizza.  Unfortunately, we didn't realize how expensive the Broadway tickets would be, so after we heard the how much the prices of the top 3 shows that we wanted to see, we left empty-handed.  I was pretty disappointed about it so I think we're planning on trying to see Wicked when it comes to Jacksonville in January of 2012.  

Before we went to NYC, I got a deal through LivingSocials for a wine class at a restaurant called Giorgio's.  It was a lot of fun to try the different types of wine.

Lambrusco was my favorite!  It was fizzy.

Curtis is a big fan of Seinfeld, so we planned on going to a well-known restaurant that the tv show references called the Original Soup Man.  This is the place where the man always would say "No Soup For You!"

The soup was pretty delicious!  Curtis got the seafood bisque soup and I got tomato basil soup.  They even give you fruit and an amazing chocolate candy with every soup order!

Next up, we went to the "Top of the Rock."  We tried to get there before so that we could see the cityscape before the sun went down.

The view was amazing!

There's the Empire State Building!

Of course, Curtis made a funny face to show our amazement!

...and so did I!

We even got a picture together with the Empire State Building between us.

As it got darker, we were able to see all the lights.

That big batch in the middle of the city is Central Park.

I love the way we can see a little bit of the sunset in this picture.  Another fun-filled day in NYC. :)

NYC - Day 3

 
So, we tried to mimick the famous kissing shot in Times Square above.  See original below:

 I think it our picture is surprisingly more similar to the original picture than I expected.  Just different types of hats!  It took us a while to find someone that we were willing to kiss in front of them.  Haha!

We planned on visiting the Statue of Liberty, but before we did, we ate lunch at a restaurant called Gigino's.  This was the view from the restaurant, isn't it a great view!?

Unfortunately, there wasn't any shade in the restaurant because the wind was blowing and the umbrellas wouldn't stay up.  So, we had to eat with our sunglasses on!

This was our view as we arrived from the Liberty cruise ship -- I had no idea that the Statue of Liberty was so huge!

We had a great view of the cityscape as we were visiting the Statue of Liberty.

The black building on the left is the new Freedom Tower that they are constructing.  It's weird that the Twin Towers would have been in this picture if we would have visited 10 years earlier.

Here's a good view of the front of the Statue of Liberty.

You can get an idea of how big the statue is in comparison to Curtis and I in this picture.  All you can see is the feet of the statue!

For dinner, we went to Qdoba.  This was very exciting for us because Curtis has so many free burritos that he acquired when we lived in St. Louis and he isn't able to use them in Savannah because we don't have a Qdoba.  We stumbled upon one downtown and we were excited to get to save some money!

This is the Rockefeller building - on Day 4, we spent a lot of our time in this building visiting the NBC Studios and the top of it!

One of the beautiful churches downtown.

This is a statue of Atlas holding up the world.  I know it from the beginning of the television show "30 Rock."

This is inside St. Patrick's Cathedral.  Heather (Curtis' sister) recommended that we visit this ornate Catholic church.  It was really awesome to check it out and see how large it was!  It's definitely not like any Presbyterian churches that I've ever been to.

This is the outside of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

One of my new favorite tv shows to watch is called "The Voice."  Here Curtis and I are posing in front of an advertisement for it.  We are holding up "V"'s like the celebrities behind us are doing (even though you can't see it from this picture).

So we were able to see where David Letterman has his show around Times Square.

Here's a large Superman figurine that is inside the huge Toys R Us store.  We went back to the huge Toys R Us because we knew there was an ice cream shop inside it called "Scoops R Us."  It was so expensive that we decided to go somewhere else for dessert.

So, we found ourselves at a place called Roxy Delicatessen.  We are sitting on the second floor in this picture, but you can see some of the sweet treats below.

I got the chocolate covered sugar cookie.  It looked so yummy!

Curtis got a peanut butter brownie.  It was delicious!

We finished off almost all of the sweets!

Curtis was full!  A nice finish to another fun-filled day in New York City!