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Thursday:

We checked out the parade on Thanksgiving. It’s really hard to get to, and it is really slow. The balloons were quite large, but that was about it. After that, we went up to time square and had lunch with Stephanie, Bob, and Debby Cox. We had some NY pizza for our thanksgiving feast. After that, we tried to get onto a cruise that goes around Manhattan, but it wasn’t running in the afternoon on Thanksgiving. We went down to little Italy, which is actually quite little. We found where CBGB’s used to be, but there wasn’t anything really left there. We found that cube statue. It was cold and late and everything was closed, so we went home after some dinnerish snacks at Starbucks.

Friday:
Well, it was black to say the least. After getting up early, but not to shop, we went down to see wall street. They wouldn’t let us in the NYSE, but I did get a picture with the bull. We checked out Battery Park and a statue that used to be outside the WTC. We went to Rockefeller center, where Rhonda met Diedra Hall, a soap star from Days of Our Lives. We went ’shopping’ which was really just watching other people shop. The line outside FAO Schwartz was huge. Millions of people on 5th avenue spending over a billion dollars. It was crazy. Absolutely crazy. In the afternoon, we went back to the Pier to take the cruise around the tip of Manhattan. It was a really cool boat trip, but it was freezing, so that was a bummer. Then we trekked up and over the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Huge. Ridiculously huge. Cool. But huge. After running 7 miles through the Met, we met up with some people at this Soul Food Southern Cookin’ place. It was alright. Then we found the restaurant from Seinfeld and went home.

Saturday:
We woke up late, and we checked out in the nick of time. We went to central park, which is also huge. It was in the 30’s so, we were pretty cold, but it is a beautiful area in the middle of a ton of concrete. The contrast was vivid. We had a last lunch with Marci and spent 49 bucks on 2 quesedillas, a burrito, chips and salsa. NY food = lots of money. We spent about an hour in the Guggenheim museum before heading back to JFK. The flight back was fun because it had the screens in each seat that tell you where you are. I saw Chicago, and I actually new what it was, which was cool. We got back to Oroville around 4:30. It was a trip we will never forget.