Day Two: Mid Atlantic Trip 2005

Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.New York, New York: We got an early start to exploring the city. After breakfast at the hotel then began our day. The first mission of the day was purse shopping. My wife, mom and sister all remember the joys of purse shopping from the first trip so that was the first objective of the day.

The best place to find the street vendors was in Battery Park. So we took the subway from Times Square to Battery Park. They did their shopping and we returned the purchased back to the hotel before beginning our tour for the day.

Today we decided to tour lower Manhattan. We took the lower loop of the Grey Line Tour. The first stop we made was at the site of the World Trade Center. We walked around the memorial before resuming the tour.

We traveled on foot past the South Street Seaport before arriving at our next destination, the NYPD museum. The museum featured artifacts from the history of the police department. We also wanted to tour the FDNY museum but had trouble finding it so that will have to wait until the next trip.

We then hopped back on the bus and resumed the tour. The next stop we got off at was Rockefeller Center. Here we decided to do the NBC Studios tour. The behind the scenes tour took use through the studio as we looked at soundstages from some of the hit NBC shows. The page told us the history of the studios and what goes on behind the scenes of the shows we see every night. On the hour long tour we got to see the sets of the NBC Nightly News, Late Night Show and Saturday Night Live.

After the tour we returned to the hotel to drop off some of the items we purchased throughout the day before heading to lunch.

My wife and I decided to split ways with my parents for a while and head to dinner. We had dinner at BB King’s., an R&B lounge located across the street from the hotel. The lounge featured southern style dinners with live blues music. I had meatloaf and my wife had BBQ ribs. The meals were great, the price however was not. Dinner for 2 and non-alcoholic drinks came to over $100.

After dinner we rejoined the rest of the family to tour Madame Tussauds, the wax museum in the commercial portion of our hotel. The two story museum featured life like wax replicas of celebrities and politicians both current and former. The interactive features were pretty neat. You could race Lance Armstrong, play golf with Tiger, and just mingle with the life like replicas.

When we finished with the museum, we headed back to the hotel room for the night.

For photos from the city, visit my New York City photo gallery.

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