nyc: day 2

warning: day 2 was long long long so if you need to take a break while reading this I understand :)

We started off Saturday morning at Grand Central Station to catch a train to Battery Park. It is one beautiful building.

We walked around Battery Park for awhile and saw the Statue of Liberty from afar. You can't go on the island right now so paying to take a boat to just get a little closer seemed like not the best financial investment.

We walked up to Wall Street to walk around and went in Trinity Church. It's a gorgeous church that was also the scene for the end of National Treasure. We visited the Ground Zero and saw the new trade center being built. It will be HUGE! It's also covered with mirrored glass to reflect everything around it. They have also started on a very large museum and memorial for 9/11. I can't believe the 10th anniversary is this year!

Next we headed to Chinatown. No purse buying for me but we had fun walking in some of the shots. We bought Micah and Connor toy taxi cabs for a surprise. A few weeks ago I was watching The Best Thing I Ever Ate on Food Network and Guy Fieri was talking about a noodle shop in Chinatown. We were meeting Zach's aunt and uncle for lunch but I figured a little snack wouldn't hurt :) They were some yummy noodles!

Little Italy is pretty much right next door so we walked through on the way to the subway and happened to run into Chip Carey (Braves announcer). Zach was super excited!

The rest of the afternoon was spent walking and eating and walking and eating. Seriously! We met Zach's aunt and uncle at Gray's Papaya hot dogs in the upper west side and continued on a walking eating tour. We hit a lot of the spots from the movie You've Got Mail (one of my absolute favs!) and then finally rested in Central Park before heading back to the hotel.

This is from the beginning of the movie when Tom Hanks is walking down one side and Meg Ryan down the other.

Gray's Papaya. Super yummy hot dog and also the meeting place before she found out he was her online love :)

Cafe Lola. Where Tom Hanks finds out who she really is and is mean!

Zabars. Super awesome store with fun yummy food. Scene: Thanksgiving, Cash Only Line

Bagel place where the flour looks like mist

After our 'tour' we sat and stared at the lake in Central Park. It was gorgeous. You can tell this is a much needed part of NYC. The atmosphere is just so much more relaxed as soon as you see the green.

After taking a taxi to our hotel (my first ride ever) we got ready for our anniversary dinner. We were eating a little Italian place in Greenwich village. First stop was Washington Square where we walked around and saw the cutest little old couple shuffling together down the side walk! We stopped in a few shops, had a long chat with a guy who worked in one of them about Provence and Paris (random to me but not if you know zach) and then headed to the restaurant. The food was delicious, the place was quiet and on the way out we ended up having a 20 minute conversation with the owner, Monte, a big giant Italian man, who told us all about his children, childhood home and asked a ton of questions to us.


We got one shot of us in the lobby of the hotel while we looked pretty and then CRASHED in bed. My feet were so tired and swollen!!