Saturday, August 26, 2006

   New York City
Finally I’ve got the time to quickly write about my trip to New York City. When my family was on the train to NYC the engine broke and we had to coast into the Philadelphia train station and then waited an hour until a new engine was put in. When we finally got to NYC it was late in the afternoon and my ten-year-old sister had to go to the American Girl Doll Place which is the biggest store of doll stuff I’ve ever seen. I almost forgot to mention that the first day in NYC was my birthday, and you can imagine how a college student feels in a four story store with nothing but little girls running around. We then got to eat in the little café they had on the four floor and my little sister enjoyed it so that was all that mattered. In the morning of day two my mother hurt her back so she had to stay in the hotel while my dad and little sister went to the UN. It was fun to go on the tour and stuff. They had a lot of rooms they can’t use like the anti-colonization council room. We went back to the hotel to pick my mom up and change so we could go see Spamalot. It was so funny seeing Monty Python on Broadway, my little sister hasn’t stopped singing all the songs from the play. Day three came around and in the early morning we went to ground zero where the World Trade Center once stood and saw the construction of the Freedom Tower that is suppose to be finished by the end of the year. It was a somber experience but I wanted to go since my dad was in the Pentagon on 9/11. We then hopped on a ferry to go to the Statue of Liberty and spent a few hours there. My dad and I then hopped on the metro so I could go meet one of my friends and try to get into the Colbert Report, and we ended up waiting in line for an hour for nothing. We then went to eat at a cool Italian restaurant and then went to the Empire State Building while the city was lit with lights since it was dark. The last day was the day to get all of our stuff packed and then hop on a train back to DC.
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