*update*
we came and went. Boy, NYC is HOT in august.. wow. In traditional ATOT fashion, I asked for advice and then pretty much ignored it all.. not intentionally, thank you all for it, I've got it saved and ready to print for my next trip.. unfortunately, at 4:30 monday morning my brain wasn't functioning well enough to remember to print it for this one.
we did take the bus and the train from la guardia, but on the advice of a very helpful airport security gal, we took the q33 bus to... roosevelt something and.. somewhere, and then the blue E train to the hotel. it worked flawlessly. yesterday on the way back, we had to be out of the hotel by noon and had a little time to kill before we needed to be at the airport so we went to grand central station to look around (I figured it's a train station.. people with luggage oughta fit in..) and then took the purple 7 train back to that roosevelt/whatever stop to catch our Q33 bus back to the airport.. I'ma pro now, I knew just what I was doing BUT! there was construction? and the local 7 train went express on us before we got there and skipped our stop! *horrors*! so we ended up riding that all the way to the end (main street, flushing.. another chinatown?) and got the q48 bus instead, way easy, it was waitin' when we got to the top of the stairs. I was glad I'd noticed that the other airport bus did go to the end of that same train line.
That was cool though, really cool.. because that train goes past shea stadium and the unisphere!! the last time I was in NYC for longer than an overnight layover was when I was a little girl and we went to the worlds fair.. so it was really cool to go past.
anyway.. we had a great time. we went to top of empire state building at night, rode staten island ferry, went to coney island and the aquarium, wandered around little italy and chinatown and surrounding places, shopped, ate, saw spamalot and dirty rotten scoundrels.. it was a whole bunch of fun. I'm going to do it again some day. in.. october. boy, it's hot in new york in august..
cliffs:
1. went to NYC
2. did not take a cab.
3. had fun
4. came home.
anno
we came and went. Boy, NYC is HOT in august.. wow. In traditional ATOT fashion, I asked for advice and then pretty much ignored it all.. not intentionally, thank you all for it, I've got it saved and ready to print for my next trip.. unfortunately, at 4:30 monday morning my brain wasn't functioning well enough to remember to print it for this one.
we did take the bus and the train from la guardia, but on the advice of a very helpful airport security gal, we took the q33 bus to... roosevelt something and.. somewhere, and then the blue E train to the hotel. it worked flawlessly. yesterday on the way back, we had to be out of the hotel by noon and had a little time to kill before we needed to be at the airport so we went to grand central station to look around (I figured it's a train station.. people with luggage oughta fit in..) and then took the purple 7 train back to that roosevelt/whatever stop to catch our Q33 bus back to the airport.. I'ma pro now
, I knew just what I was doing BUT! there was construction? and the local 7 train went express on us before we got there and skipped our stop! *horrors*! so we ended up riding that all the way to the end (main street, flushing.. another chinatown?) and got the q48 bus instead, way easy, it was waitin' when we got to the top of the stairs. I was glad I'd noticed that the other airport bus did go to the end of that same train line. That was cool though, really cool.. because that train goes past shea stadium and the unisphere!! the last time I was in NYC for longer than an overnight layover was when I was a little girl and we went to the worlds fair.. so it was really cool to go past.
anyway.. we had a great time. we went to top of empire state building at night, rode staten island ferry, went to coney island and the aquarium, wandered around little italy and chinatown and surrounding places, shopped, ate, saw spamalot and dirty rotten scoundrels.. it was a whole bunch of fun. I'm going to do it again some day. in.. october. boy, it's hot in new york in august..
cliffs:
1. went to NYC
2. did not take a cab.
3. had fun
4. came home.
but I'm afraid if I put my questions on an existing thread it'll get ignored.
we're leavin' tomorrow for a few days in NYC, myself and my kids (18 and 21) and my daughter's boyfriend. have tickets to spamalot wednesday.
that's what I most need to know (because that's what I'm obsessing about
I'm not sure what else we're going to do.. we plan to ride the staten island ferry at some point because it's free and I understand provides some good photo opportunities (my son is not a broadway kinda guy but he is some kind of attached to his camera, so he agreed to endure the play and maybe even another one, if it meant getting to go to new york to take pictures), and the older kids went to the museum of the moving image (or something like that) when they were there in december, he wants to go there and they don't mind going back so we'll probably do that.
we have b1g1 coupons to guggenheim (or howver you spell that) so we might do that and he'd like to go thrifting... got any good thrift shops to recommend? heh.. maybe that's a tall order.. he figures the stuff in the goodwill store in NYC is bound to be more interesting than the stuff in the goodwill store in south carolina.. and he's probably right. I think maybe we'll head to the village for an afternoon/evening if we don't end up going to a second play and maybe a zoo one morning? votes on central park or bronx?
anno
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