Neeew York City?

It has been entirely too long since I have blogged. But I have an excuse: I have been too busy.
You see, I have been in New Jersey for the last 2 weeks at Phase 2 training for my new job. I go home on Friday (YEAHHHH!) but still...a long last week lies ahead.

It has been like a minimester in college - cram as much as possible in to 3 weeks of training, take a final exam on it, and interview that you have the understanding to apply what you have learned in the field. I have thoroughly enjoyed the learning, but I miss my fiance terribly.

So here are some pictures of this weekend. My new work friends and I went to NYC. I have NEVER been until this weekend. It was truely a sensory overload - like you are inside a video game or something.

We hit all the big sites in just 1 day. We got into the city at 10am, and left at 7pm. One of the guys in our group, Todd, had been thee many times before, and so was our tour guide for the day.

We hit Battery Park, and from there got a view of the Statue of Liberty. It was nothing short of emotional. Thinking of all the people, who, when they saw Lady Liberty, had so much promise of a life of opportunity.


We took taxis most of the day, although we certainly did get our walking in while in town. That was almost the coolest part. Thinking, "I am spending a beautiful Saturday afternoon walking through NYC. While on of the guys said, "It doesn't get any better than this, I disagreed. I would rather be doing this all with Layne. :)

Our second stop was ground-zero -the WTC site. It was also an emotional place. The sound of the city seemed to slip away - it was so very silent there. All you could hear was the sound of the wind through the buildings. If people were talking around me, I couldn't hear them. And I almost felt gulity of taking pictures there - like it is some kind of oddity. Nevertheless, it was an amazing experience.






Times Square was were all the action was. We snuck in the back door of the Hard Rock Cafe so we didn't have to wait in line. (shame shame shame, fuller). We hung out with some NYPD cops and chatted for a while, saw the christmas tree at Rockafeller Center along with the skating rink, and were just amazed at the number of people there.



All in all, it was a good, but very tiring day. We didn't get pick pocketed, didn't get lost, and had a good time.