Day 4 started out with a nice bike ride through Central Park. We rented some bikes out of a van and went on a hot bike ride. With this humidity we were so sweaty riding around. You will notice the pictures from this trip do not include us as that is not appropriate for a family friendly blog (lol).
Our bikes in front of the fountain I can't remember nor pronounce the name of.
The stair case by the mysterious fountain. We later found out that this stair case is also an amazing bridge with beautiful artwork. We didn't get any pictures with the phone so this post won't include any of those pics.
After our hot bike ride in the park we met up with Trent's cousin Jason. He taught us how to ride the subway and we ventured our way to the Statue of Liberty. If you buy a day subway pass you can ride the Staten Island Ferry for free. So that is exactly what we did! We got fairly close Lady Liberty and was able to spend time chatting it up with Jason.
Since we have been here the best food we had eaten up to that point was a grilled cheese sandwich. Sad, I know! Luckily Jason was able to suggest and direct us to a lot of great places to eat. One place Jason suggested was also a place one of our tour guides suggested, Grimaldi's Pizzeria in Brooklyn. This is a very popular pizza joint and the wait can get up to several hours long any day of the week. Our tour guide, a New York native, knew a great little secret, the owner of Grimaldi's also owns Ignazio's which is just around the corner. So around the corner we walked and sat right down and had delicious pizza.
This is the Brooklyn Bridge, also the view from our table at Ignazio's.
Our drinks came in these little 8oz glass bottles. Very cute but for $2 I would rather have a plastic cup with more than 8oz's.
This is our delicious pizza! Thank you Jason for helping us get to Brooklyn and back on the subway!
After pizza we walked down to the pier where Jason said was a great ice cream place. We got some wonderful ice cream an just enjoyed the view of the city. Here are some pics.
This is the more commonly known pizza place.
And this is it's line. And this isn't even the end of the line, it keeps going!!!!!
Trent and I riding the subway back to our hotel.
The subway!
Day 5!
So to end our trip, we took a guided tour on a rickshaw around Central Park. We got so see where the popular movies were filmed in the park.
Us by the mysterious fountain again. You would think by know I would have learned how to say it. Well when your tour guide has a thick accent it is hard to understand the correct pronunciation.
After the park we made our way to the Guggenheim.
The structure of the building was stunning. As for the art inside, you have to really love modern art to fully enjoy the exhibits. Things were fairly extreme and in my opinion, a little weird. I love art but I have a hard time looking at photography that has no artistic value but is classified as art. I guess I don't like looking at picture and thinking I could do better. I want my pictures displayed there!
After the Guggenheim we went to The Burger Joint (another suggestion from Jason) and had lunch. It was a great lunch! Now we are headed back to the airport and will be back home tonight.
Anyone who would like to see more pictures come on over this week and we can go through them.
Until Next Time ...
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