365 days of Angotti

Monday, August 9, 2010

New York Day 2

Once again we hit the ground running on our second day in the big city! Starting with the NBC Tour at 8:30 in the morning. Before going on the tour we stopped by Rockefeller Center where they were taping the Today Show, unfortunately I only took one picture there.

And we were not allowed to take pictures inside the studio Tour so here is one while waiting in line. We got to see the studios where Dr. Oz, Late Night with Jimmy Fallen and Saturday Night Live is taped. And a few other things in the building.

After we did our tour we looked around down in the subway/shopping area below Rockefeller. The we went to the Top of the Rock. Here is a pic of one of the entrances to Rockefeller and here is the elevator ceiling

Here are a couple from the top of the building, which was pretty cool!

Empire state building Times Square Central Park

Then on to the MOMA, deciding we didn’t want to spend all day in museums we picked one or two different exhibits to see and went on our way. Here are a couple photos from MOMA.

I did a paper on Diane Arbus in my Photography class a couple years ago. Very interesting

Does anyone else remember these popsicle makers from Tupperware!!

After the Moma we hopped on the subway and went way up toward the top of Central Park and walked 5th Ave. down. It was a VERY long walk. We tried to go to the Guggenheim but the line was RIDICULOUS!! So here is a pic of the building. hehe

Then we walked down about 30 blocks more to the Met. Which was very awesome. We chose to go into the Egypt exhibit.

me in Egypt!

for some reason this statue “cracked” me up!

The front of the Met.

After that we decided to get a pedicab, we were exhausted!

He took us to…

Which was closed. :-(

So we trekked back to our hotel for a rest. And along the way came across this

and this

We both ended up falling asleep pretty early and awoke ready to hit the ground again, To be continued.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

NEW YORK DAY 1!!!

Finally after wanting to go to New York for about 10 years I made it! I went with a friend from our South Bend station, Carrie. It was an awesome trip! What made it even better was that Carrie and I were on the exact same page. See as much as possible in the time we were there and the next time we made it to the Big Apple we would be a little less hit the ground running till you can’t go anymore.

Originally we were supposed to depart from IND at 6 on Thursday evening. About 10 minutes before our flight was to board they announced that it had been cancelled. Long story short, we flew out at 6am the next morning.

So we landed at LGA and got a cab to our hotel,

Entered our awesome room,

threw our stuff down and hit the pavement! At least till we got to the metro! Our first experience with the Subway.

We took the subway all the way down to Battery Park so we could see the Statue of Liberty. We decided not to spend half of a day going over to Ellis Island and up in Lady Liberty. Seeing it was good enough for us (this time).

After that we walked and walked and saw Ground Zero, Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown and Little Italy. We stopped in Little Italy to have a bite to eat. YUMMY!!

a memorial tile wall along our walk.

FINALLY, back to our hotel (this was in the lobby) to get ready for dinner!

Cleaned up and ready to have a good dinner at .

It was delicious and wonderful! and we were exhausted so decided to not try and go to the Empire State building that night. We would do it the next night. Or so we thought.

On the way back to the hotel we stopped in Times Square (which was a block and half away from our hotel)

And after that off to bed we went so we could get up early and hit it again!

Our Tomato Hornworm

Just wanted to show you all what I found on my tomato plant the other day. He is now in captivity and being fed stray tomato leaves. :-)

Nashville Girlfriends Getaway!!

So finally the time came for my girlfriends getaway! Thursday thru Sunday with lots of my gal pals, lots of food and lots of beer!

Talk about a great time with great friends! Here are some pictures from the trip, at least the couple that are internet friendly. :-)

The first night, the early crew (and also those of us that went to Nebraska last year), Kara and Jenny made it later that night but we must have had too much to drink by then to take another picture! And also the picture of where I parked the truck! I don’t know what I was thinking! Getting it there was fun, getting it out, NOT SO MUCH!