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We arrived in New York on March 4th. We had a good flight into JFK with Us Airways. On a one hour flight they give you a complimentary drink. Our flight was only about 1 hour 20 minutes so we arrived about 20 mins earlier than scheduled.
I hated that we had to pay $40 to store our luggage. There aren’t any lockers in the subway stations. Why? I wouldn’t mind paying $5 to use a locker in a subway. I only knew of one place to store luggage and it wasn’t anywhere near where we were going so we walked around for a while and then we ended up taking a cab.
Our first stop on our trip was the Rockefeller Plaza. We had tickets for a taping of the Jimmy Fallon show. I have only watched Jimmy Fallon’s show twice, but it was easy to get tickets to. I wanted to go to a show taping for the experience. We got there early and got tickets and a wristband. Then we went to eat at McDonalds and came back to the studio.We stood in line for a while and had to go through security to get into the studio. After we sat down a guy came out for a warm up. He was funny. The Roots played. They are good.
First he had the reunion of the cast of "California Dreams". It was neat to see all of them. I remember watching that show. Dennis Haskins (Mr Belding on "Saved By the Bell" ) also showed up.The first guest was Zach Galifanakis. He was in "The Hangover." He's funny.There was a funny scene where they did "let us play with your looks". Jimmy came out in this ridiculous outfit. Zach also came out. A girl from the audience came down with Zach. They put shaving cream all over her head!
The second guest was a Mia Wasikowska. She stars in the new "Alice in Wonderland."
The musical guest was Silversun Pickups. I'd never heard of them before. They were okay.It was interesting to be a part of the audience. I enjoyed it
the 2nd day of our trip we took an 8 hour comprehensive tour of NYC. It was great. Its about 88 dollars and includes lunch and an hour ride on a water taxi. We were with greyline tours. I definitely recommend the trip. Our tour guide’s name was Dave. He was awesome. He knew so much information. There were only 7 people on our trip. Me and my mom were the only US people on the trip. There were 3 people from Australia, 2 from the UK and us. We rode around and he would point out buildings and tell us the history. We had lunch in Little Italy-Italian rest called Grotta Azzurra Ristorante.Lunch was great.I had skirt steak. An hour ride on the Hudson river was also included in our tour.
On our 4th day in NYC we went to Koreatown for lunch. I love Korea so I had to go to Koreatown. I was in the mood for galbi.The cute Korean waiter was standing outside the door. I asked him if we could cook the galbi at our table. He said yes and we didn’t have to order more than one portion. We went in there and I struck up a conversation with the cute waiter. I was telling him about just getting back from Korea. (I’d been home for a week) He told me his step mom owns a hagwon in Korea. He took my name and email.He was nice and friendly. Oh and did I mention he was handsome. He was 30 years old. He might go back to Korea this year. Maybe we can be friends when I go back to Korea. The waiter cooked the galbi for us at our table. It was delicious. The side dishes were good also. I made it through the whole meal eating with chopsticks even though I’m not extremely coordinated.
Then we headed out to Coney Island. It was easy to get to. We just rode the F train to the next to last stop. The beach was beautiful. I love beaches! We stayed there for a while. I took a ton of pictures and picked up a lot of seashells. I found a lot of big whole shells. It’s a lot better than the little broken shells that you find in SC. It was a nice day out also.
Later that night I wanted to go to see the ‘charging bull.’ The subway we needed wasn’t running so we took an alternate route on subway 4. The Bowling Green stop led us right in near the bull. I knew it was on Whitehall, but I walked a long way in the wrong direction then turned around and found it. I did find the Staten Island Ferry at the other end although we didn’t ride it.
We spent a lot of time in Penn Station which is one of the busiest stations in the US. It was always busy when we were there. I also had to visit Grand Central station. We didn’t take the train from there but it was very busy.
I never made it out to the Bronx, long island, or Staten island. We mostly stayed in Manhattan. We were in Brooklyn for a short time.
PROS: Lots of things to do, subway open 24 hours
CONS: subway could be confusing for people who don't have subway experience, things are expensive, cabs are expensive, no lockers in subways, lots of beggars,very busy, lots of crime although i didnt experience any
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