{"id":1371,"date":"2014-08-17T22:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T06:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdavid.info\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2014-08-17T22:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T06:32:48","slug":"new-york-new-york-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedavids.dev\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the last part of the 2013 summer trip that I did with my parents. After visiting me in Seattle and we went on our awesome Hawaii – Vegas – Zion – Grand Canyon – Seattle trip, we decided to add one more flag to the map of visited cities (this is a figure of speech, but I actually have a map of Romania and I have marked on it all the trips that I\u00a0have taken as a kid with my parents in Romania – it’s pretty cool and full).<\/p>\n

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This trip began on a Thursday evening \/ night when we left Seattle and caught a red-eye (overnight) flight to New York. My parents would then follow their path back to Bucharest and I would fly back to Seattle. Anyway…<\/p>\n

We flew for 5 hours, meaning that we had to get at most that much sleep – it was not easy or comfortable. We got in New York around 8AM local time (5AM Seattle time) after only a couple of hours of sleep. We took a cab to our hotel (in Manhattan) and since the room was not ready, we had to go start visiting.<\/p>\n

Short definition: New York has multiple\u00a0boroughs – Manhattan being just one of them. The others are Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, we got\u00a0breakfast (and MUCH NEEDED coffee) and we did what any tourist does – get tickets for a hop-on hop-off in the city and start visiting.\u00a0We got on a bus with plans to head over to see the Statue of Liberty and possibly Ellis Island. Of course was not a good enough stimulant, so I fell asleep on the top level of a double-decker and I woke up with the sign above approaching me at a pretty high velocity (fortunately, it was a bit higher).<\/p>\n

We got off the bus in Lower\u00a0Manhattan, close to Wall Street and took a boat trip to the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately, in order to actually climb in it, you need to book in advance – and moreover, the Statue was closed just until a day before due to Sandy (the hurricane). So, we strolled around for a bit.<\/p>\n

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That guy above ruins a pretty awesome pic. And below: Mom and Dad after a sleepless night, Lady Liberty and a bit of rain.<\/p>\n

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The Statue was nice, but it was also a bit disappointing. The statue is such a landmark that appears in so many movies – at least the ones that I watched as a kid – and it looks so impressive …\u00a0and then you’re there and … it’s just not the same. I am pretty sure that all the movies just want to make it look bigger. Especially by putting the city with the skyscrapers in the background – see here:<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned, the island was just opening that week and you can see people were still working on remodeling after the hurricane.
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After a while, we came back to the city and went through the city – just outside Times Square I got my very own version of the posters one can see everywhere with the yellow cabs:<\/p>\n

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Riding in the bus was pretty fun – on the one hand, you have a good perspective of the people on the street, of the buildings and everything going on around you. On the other hand, New York-ers look to be not so shy, so they don’t mind snapping photos of them.<\/p>\n

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In the picture above, there is so much stuff going on – first the person waiting while everyone else is moving, then the flag, then the blue building squeezed between the other two gray ones and the “American DollHouses” sign.<\/p>\n

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Even though we didn’t have the best weather for outdoors visiting – the clouds were pretty bad, but it did not rain – the trip was fun.<\/p>\n

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Switching to inside for the next post.<\/p>\n

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