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Posted by joy.the.curious on Jun 30, 2010 in Random, Villa Am Meer | 2 comments

For our 16th wedding anniversary, I surprised Ross with a whirlwind vacation to New York City. Neither one of us had ever been there before, and we had a ball seeing all the sites. And I do mean, ALL the sites. We were only there for the weekend, but man, did we pack it in!

Being the born-again genealogist that I’ve become of late, it was fun to see Ellis Island and re-live the immigrant experience from my great grandparents’ perspective. But we did so much more… we stayed at the historic Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue, visited Rockefeller Center and the “Top of the Rock,” took the NBC tour and saw where Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live are filmed, visited Ground Zero and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, saw Wall Street and Battery Park, rode the Staten Island Ferry, rode bicycles around Central Park, toured the United Nations building, ate a fabulous dinner in Little Italy, and topped it all off with a ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

Here’s a link to my pictures on Flickr. If you view them as a slideshow, make sure you go to “Options” and choose “Always show title and description,” so you can see the captions, and choose Slow for the speed, or you’ll go bonkers trying to read the captions before the next picture shows up.

Enjoy!

Next time

Villa am Meer Chapter 10 – A tour of the Benedict Estate in Harrison, New York

2 Comments

1. Denise Lanthier | June 30, 2010 at 7:09 pm

   I loved looking at your NY photos…looks like it was a fantastic trip. Thanks for sharing and happy anniversary!

2. Susan Dressel | June 30, 2010 at 7:28 pm

   What a surprise for Ross! Now,I KNOW you could make the whirlwind trip, but…. is Ross still alive????