New York, NY

We arrived in New York on Wednesday 24th in the afternoon. It was snowing a lot and of course it was very cold.

We took a taxi and went straight to out host Evan. We left our bags there and left for a first walk through the big apple. We didn't go very far: we came across "The Food Emporium", a food market, and stopped there as we were quite hungry!








The following morning we visited the Empire State Building going up to the 86th floor. The view of the snow covered city was wonderful, but the freezing wind made it hard to stay outside on the observation deck for long.















In the afternoon we spent some time on Times Square. The surrounding buildings are covered with big screens showing colorful advertisements. It's really a show by itself standing there and watch, espetially at night.















And the shops there are amazing: the m&m's store, Toys'r'us, Disney, gift shops.....we spent lots of hours there during our NY visit, which, after all, gave us some rest from the bone chilling weather.
On Friday we stopped at Union Square. There was the farmers market and lots of small bars, restaurants and shops around the plaza.












At around 2 pm we moved towards Times Square and stood in line in front of the Ticket Ticket office for getting discounted musical tickes. We got tickets for the broadway musical "Million Dollar Quartet", based on the true event of the reunion of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Records in 1956. The show was amazing, presenting the most popular songs of the four musicians.





On Saturday we headed to lower Manhattan to the financial district and to "Ground Zero". On the way we stopped at the Rockefeller Center and at Washington Square. Once arrived at "Ground Zero" we took a look at the visitors center, a kind of museum showing pictures and statements of 9/11. The whole exposition was very touchy. We also took a guided tour, organized by people who were directly affected by the catastrophe. The tourguide first told us what life was at the World Trade Center and about the energy surrounding that area. Then we were told about the day of the attack and one of the tourguides told us about her personal loss! Very touchy.







On Sunday we visited lower Manhattan again as we didn't have time to see everything the day before. We first went to the Battery Parck for a good view of the Liberty Statue. After that we walked along the famous Wall Street and finished with a walk across the Brooklyn bridge.














On our last day, Monday 31st, we packed all our bags and then headed to the museum of natural science for some pictures of the entrance hall (unfortunately there was no time for a visit). At around 2 pm we left with all our heavy bags towards the metro station, direction JFK airport. We were both sad and happy to go back to Switzerland. It was an amazing 1-month trip, but also tiresome and exausting. We were looking forward to have a fix place to stay without moving every day.