April 17th, 2007
New York is huge

We started our day in a hotel right next to Madison Square Garden. No offense to the designers of it, but we couldn't find a very picturesque angle on any side of it. Later in the day people were flooding into there to watch a Ranger's hockey playoff game. I guess they're pretty excited about their team as two busloads of people came down through Times Square cheering for the Rangers the whole way and getting others to join in from the sidewalk.

Anyway, we made our first real stop at Times Square and sat down to check out all the luminescent billboards. We can see why people would frequent the area as there was a large TV we sat down to watch and there were many choices of places to eat.

We made a stop at a nearby Yankees team store and decided to snag some shirts to fit in with the local crowd. While we're not necessarily fans of the team, we did enjoy having shirts on to keep our bellies clean. Later that night after taking off the shirts, we realized how dirty we would've been had we not worn them. While New York isn't a clean city, the rain was definitely responsible for getting our shirts dirty.

We then walked over to the Rockefeller Center and took a peak at where people ice skate when it's cold enough. The Top of the Rock was definitely a long ways up and the garden nearby had cute little bunnies made out of green leaves. It definitely gave the area an Easter feel and it'd be interesting to see what other type of decorations they do for other holidays.

After that, we made our way past the Radio City Music Hall and up to Central Park. We toured through the Park and finally started to see a lot more dogs than we did down near Times Square. We also got to see tons of squirrels. They looked so cute we spent our whole time walking through the park looking at the nearest one. It seemed as if there was never a squirrel not within view.

We worked our way along the zoo, then through some pathways along a lake and then to a castle found near the middle of the park. While small, it was a nice little castle that I'm sure provided for some nice views of the park for those allowed inside.

We then walked to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and checked out the nearby Guggenheim Museum, which really isn't that nice looking from the outside. On the way to the Guggenheim, we began to smell something similar to a waffle cone and as we approached a stand where the person was selling nuts, we realized that's where the smell originated. It smelled too good to pass up and we were hungry, so we stopped and grabbed some on the way back.

We crossed over Central Park on our way back deciding to go check and see if we could get tickets to the Colbert Report or the Daily Show. We stood in line for VIP tickets at the Colbert Report, but they said they were sold out. So we made our way to the Daily Show where a large line was formed outside, waiting to get in. Some people offered to give us their tickets, but we sadly had to turn them down.

From there we made our way back to the hotel to sleep. We trekked over 10 miles and we were definitely worn out and needing sleep.

Kenzie and Boone
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