New York City!!!

You've been waiting for it so here it is. This first picture is us on top of the Empire State Building which was the first site we hit. Our hotel was just a couple blocks away.

We were eating in Little Italy and saw all these people walking by with John Lennon stickers. So, I finally stopped and asked one of them and found that there was this Lennon art exhibit just up the road. A happy little detour for us.

This was probably our favorite exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum.

Here we are in front of the United Nations.

Had to get a picture with a New York fire truck!

Does this guy look familiar from the movie "Night at the Museum"? We enjoyed a couple hours in the Museum of Natural History before making our way to the New York Manhattan Temple.

This is temple number 19 for us!

So this was THE HIGHLIGHT of the trip for me. The long awaited viewing of the one and only "Phantom of the Opera"! My hopes were so high I thought there was no way it could live up to my expectations but I was not disapointed. It was wonderful, magnificent, amazing!!!

So, here we are on the boat ride out to see the Statue of Liberty. The weather was beautiful as you can see in the background. We were so lucky to have perfect weather the entire time we were in Manhattan.

After the statue we made our way to Ellis Island which I really enjoyed. Of course the story is amazing and such a big part of American history.

We enjoyed "Phantom" so much that we wanted to see another Broadway play before leaving New York. So, we headed down to the 1/2 price ticket booth and found tickets available for Charles Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities". Wasn't as spectacular as the other but we really enjoyed it. We had great seats in the fourth row which was fun.

We took a walking tour which brought us to the WallStreet area and we had a little treat with a rally going on at the bldg catty corner from the NYSE where Ralph Nadar was speaking to the people.

One of Mark's favorites.