New York City – July 3, 2009

What a day – we left the house at 4:45am on the way to the airport. A flight to Atlanta followed by a flight to New York City and we were here at 12:30pm.

The pictures are:
The view from our room of Times Square
Times Square.
Carriage ride in Central Park
Petal cab ride to dinner.
Katz Deli

The Marriott New York Marquis is right in the middle of Times Square. As a matter of fact, you can hardly see the hotel because of all the billboards on every piece of real estate in Time Square.

They upgraded us to a beautiful mini-suite on the 30th floor, overlooking Times Square.

As usual, we took off walking, first stopping at a hot dog vendor on the Square for a New York hot dog, another gourmet lunch!

We walked the Diamond Market, a block on 47th street with 2,600 individual vendors, it is quite a sight and Barb didn’t buy a thing.

We then walked to Grand Central Station and up Park Avenue to see St. Bartholomew’s Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, they are beautiful.

Then we walked up to Central Park and took a carriage ride through part of the park. The next stop was the Apple Store which was crowed with hundreds of people buying the new Apple phone. We could not believe the number of people in line to buy.

Walking down 5th Avenue we arrived at the NBC Studios where we had a 5:30pm tour of the Studios and finally got to sit down for awhile during the tour.

We then walked back to the hotel to drop some stuff off and took a pedal cab for about an hour to lower Manhattan to what is supposed to be one of the best delis in the City, Katz Deli.

After splitting a Reuben, we took a cab back to Times Square and walked for a little bit and then crashed at about 10:00pm. I was too tired to even type so this is being written on the second morning as we are getting ready for day 2.