Our first Trip
Date : May 23rd 2oo9
This was the first "big" city that my husband and I toured. It was a really delightful experience. We flew to Connecticut and stayed at my hubby's childhood friend's place. They were a very pleasant couple. His friend , Mahesh and his wife were perfect hosts. We had a good time at their place and not to forget mentioning the lovely food made by his wife , Sunitha. Thanks to them.
Since we had not planned anything for that evening, we went to a beach.It was lovely, calm and cool. I loved it.
I had already planned the places that I wanted to see, under the name, "Top 10 places to visit in New York". Man, I surely have put a lot of effort in it! With the help of google maps and wikipedia , I managed to create my own map :) .
I had a complete sketch of the places to visit by time and order!!!!
Started our tour from the Grand Central Station.We were all pretty excited and headed off to The Statue of Liberty. This was the only place that took the maximum time, because of the line for the tickets, waiting for the boats to pick us and take us to the Ellis Island and then even drop us back!This was over, and rest all were to be done faster.
Getting into the local trams with the map to guide us to the required destination and then walk and then walk!!All the places are close by, and so it needed lot of walking to be done! :)
These were the places which we saw:
- Wall Street (I was eagerly waiting to see the Bull)
- New York Stock Exchange(NYSE)
- United Nations Headquarters (at this place , a funny thought struck me, "Wow, I am standing at this place where great people come to dicuss world problems!!!")
- Times Square (the busiest place)
- Madame Tussads(Honestly, I like the one in London, mayb because I was a kid then)
- Brooklyn Bridge(I walked the whole bridge, one end to another!)
- Rockefeller Center
- Chrysler building(one of the finest buildings in NY)
All and all, I had a great time, and we enjoyed it a lot! Apart from the Statue of Liberty to carry home a souvenir, I had taken a caricature of me done too..dated 23rd may..! (This was one of the things in my wish list!)
P.S :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take but by the moments that take your breath away! This was one such moment!
This is the link where you can check out the pictures taken by us in NY!
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