In an effort to further catch up on photos…
…here are a bunch more with many more on the website here: http://gallery.me.com/erik.sande#100586 and, since we’ve gone over the 500 photos mark, here: http://gallery.me.com/erik.sande#100594. This update gets us from the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island (which was surprisingly cool), and the bull at Bowling Green one day and then through pizza in a cone, some of Central Park, and finally FAO Schwarz, finishing up Teresa’s trip out here in February. There were 145 photos put up from these two days and I obviously won’t be putting them all up here. There are a couple of interesting ones at the gallery sites so be sure to check them out if you get the chance…
Us on the ferry out to the Statue of Liberty…
Us and the Statue.
Here’s the postcard shot. While still being impressive, its not quite as big as I would’ve thought it would be. Additionally, it was cold…so we walked around it and moved on to Ellis Island…
A long line of luggage…this whole experience would have sucked…big time.
Apparently, not being able to draw a diamond indicated mental deficiency and you got sent home. Maybe Arizona’s new Immigration law can include something like this…?
some of the actual bunks people slept on…pretty crazy.
They had this special exhibit up about the Basque. It had a bunch of pictures from Boise in it…
The building…
Us and the bull @ Bowling Green…no, its not at “Wall Street”. Trust me, I walked all over one night thinking I would stumble upon it or something.
…I had to give up and go home and look it up.
…yes, she’s really kneeling down there to get a better…grip.
The next day we started off with some breakfast at One Girl Cookies in Brooklyn. If you get the chance to go, I would highly recommend it. It’s great food and its also a really cool store…
Then we took the subway into town and walked around a bunch. Saw the Empire State Building and Macy’s (the world’s largest department store)…walked around some more and then found a place that sells pizza…in a cone.
It was surprisingly good but it did take about 30 minutes for us to get our ‘cones after we ordered them. I have walked past this place since and its been empty so I’m sure I wouldn’t have to wait nearly as long now. The day that we went was, apparently, their opening day and, like, CNN was there and stuff…
Then we walked through Central Park some…although it was winter so it looks a little bleak.
Then we made it to the FAO Schwarz
One of us was pretty excited…
BEARS!
yes, that’s a Lego Chewbacca.
I know…you’re jealous.
Then, of course, there’s the Big piano…
But, perhaps the highlight was the Muppet Whatnot store inside FAO Schwarz. The Whatnot store is where you can pick out all the things you want on a muppet and they make it right there for you. Its pretty awesome.
…and that takes us through the whole trip…wait, except for this place that we walked by in Chelsea…
Of course, this isn’t the weirdest place we saw in Chelsea…that would probably be the place that had a “Harness night.” What the…?
Anyway, that was Teresa’s first trip out to NYC. Of course, she has visited since so there will be pictures of that as well. Also, my dad came out and was nice enough to let me borrow one of his cameras…
…which promptly inspired an increased rate of photo-taking…
Again, there are a lot more photos up in the galleries so check them out if you get the time.
