Churches

There are many churches on the island of Manhattan, and there are some that are beautiful and pretty famous. 

Here is Trinity Church, right almost in the heart of downtown, and one of the only churches on Manhattan that has a cemetery. 

They all look so different, but you can definitely tell they are churches and so pretty.

If I remember correctly this would be Cathedral of St. John the Divine. 

Such beautiful carvings, and sculptures. 

I can't keep all the churches straight, but I just wanted to show you some that we've seen. 

I wish I could have remembered which churches were which, but there were so many. I just love showing off how beautiful they are, and the ornate doors they have. 

Brooklyn

We were able to ride on the Gray Line Bus Tour and go over to Brooklyn one evening. It was great to see another borough of New York City. 

Here we are on a bridge going to Brooklyn and seeing the downtown Manhattan area and the Brooklyn Bridge. 

When we got to Brooklyn this was a green area and playground that was right under the bridge. 

I thought this area on the rooftop was cool with the furniture and sofa. Fun place to sit out at nights during in the summer.

The Brooklyn Bridge!

Tyler and my dad were also able to go walk on the Brooklyn Bridge one day too. 

 This was in Brooklyn at one of the best pizza places, Grimaldi's. Yes, do you see the long line??? THAT'S how good it supposedly is! I've heard that it's usually a 2 to 3 hour wait. We haven't eaten there yet, but will have to try it sometime. 

Downtown Manhattan. 

Another view of downtown. 

We don't get over to Brooklyn much, but we'll have to go see their parks and pizza soon. 

Times Square

We have been down to Times Square a few times by now, and it's a great place...if you are a tourist. :) We have learned as other New Yorkers have already known, it is a crowded place where we just do not like to be. I do however, think everyone should visit there whenever they come to NYC and see it at night too. It's crazy busy, but fun fun fun!

Here's the New Year's Eve ball!!! 

The M&M store....they have some yummy stuff in there for sure. 

And this is the tkts booth, where you can get cheaper Broadway tickets. The catch? You have to stand in line for hours to get a good cheap ticket, but sometimes you get a REALLY great deal. 

This was during a weekday, usually weekends it's more than twice this crowded.

Good Morning America!

The Hershey's store!! This was a yummy place too. 5 lb. Hershey bars? yes please!

More of Times Square advertising. 

Lastly, Times Square at night. So bright that it looks like daytime. 

Times Square is a very fun place though, I've enjoyed it every time we go. Lots of eating places, lots of plays are right around there, and lots of lights! 

Natural History Museum

When we moved here to NYC, we had a week in a hotel before we could move into our apartment and before Spencer had school, but Tyler still had to go to work. So, Spencer and I went exploring a bit. He really wanted to go see the Natural History Museum, mostly because of the movie Night at the Museum. He wanted to see the T-Rex and Dum-Dum. Off we went to the museum to see what we could see!

We saw some pretty cool masks. This is Spencer being like one of them with his tongue out.

We also found this HUGE piece of a tree trunk!!! It was so massive, and I do not remember how old it was, but it was old.

We found Dum-Dum!!!!!! Spencer was VERY excited to have found him, and we did not give him any gum-gum.

Finally we found the T-Rex, up on the top floor (not at the entrance). Spencer was excited, and then he was done with the museum.

New York! New York!!

If you do not know by now, we did make it to New York City, our new home! :) We are excited to learn more about the city, since this is the first time Tyler and I have been here, so we are exploring lots, Tyler more than I.

The Empire State Building we saw this while on one of our bus tours.

I know this post is a bit late, but moving in takes a lot of energy, especially when you have no furniture, and school starts the same day you move in, OH and you have furniture delivered two weeks after we moved in, and two sets of visitors since then, and lastly, I've started my last class before I graduate! So we've been a bit busy. But we have LOVED having people come and share our excitement about our new home.

Which brings me to our apartment, and what it looks like. This is what it looked like the first weekend we were there, because the day we moved in we had no couch or chair or bed, just an air mattress for us and a blanket for Spencer to sleep on.

Our bedroom.

Our bathroom.

Looking from our bathroom out to the living room with our closets on the sides.

Kitchen. (Which we do have a fantastic view of the new World Trade Tower being built.)

Living room.

Foyer, front door.

Living room.

Half bath.

Spencer's bathroom.

Guest room.

Guest room.

Spencer's room.

Spencer's room.

The view from our living room! Nice, right? I LOVE that I get to still see beautiful sunsets every night here. Also the Hudson River, I LOVE LOVE LOVE being by water. It's calming to me I guess. Helps me daydream a bit too. ;)

The next few posts I will be catching up with all that we have done while here for just a month, which I think we've done really well with seeing a lot of the city already. YAY! Still tons more to see. Our thoughts about the city so far?

Tyler: I like how much stuff there is to do. It's alive! There are so many great places to eat.

Becca: This city really truly NEVER sleeps (because I can hear the cars still going by at every hour of the night), and there is always something Free to do here.

Spencer: It's good. I like how much food there is here.

As you can see Tyler and Spencer think a lot alike. Food is mostly on their minds, and Spencer thinks it's grand that we can have Chinese food delivered right to our door. Crazy, right?

Also in the future posts you will see more stuff in our apartment, and once everything is decorated I'll show you updated pictures of each room. ;)