NYC Part 3

Day 4 (Oct 20): After all we had done the past several days, we were wiped out, exhausted, had aching feet, and so we decided to have a much more calm and less ambitious day. Day 4 in Manhattan was Sunday, so we had the privilege to attend church inside the Manhattan Temple building, across the street from Caitlin's apartment. It's pretty interesting how it's designed with there being a church building in the lower level and the temple being in the upper portion.

After church, we collected items for lunch and went to Central Park for a Sunday afternoon picnic. Caitlin took us on a Central Park tour, which we only saw the southern portion, and I couldn't believe how large it is. You could spend ALL day in Central Park and still not seeing everything. I had no idea! We then made our way to the Plaza Hotel, just to say we saw it, played around in the famous FAO Shwarz toy store. We headed back to Caitlin's apartment for dinner and lounged around for the remainder of the night.....just what we needed.

 The Boat House!!!!

 Remember this buidling???.....from GHOSTBUSTERS!!

Sadly, the Plaza was under exterior renovation

We peeked inside! 

Day 5 (Oct 21): For our last day in New York, we tried to see the last few things on our list that we had time for (wish we were there longer). Since Nicholas loves philly cheese steak sandwiches, we went for lunch at a restaurant he researched to have some of the best in NYC. It was called Shorty's and was completely out of the way from our other sites, but anything for a good philly.... Nick insisted! After lunch, we returned back to Rockefeller, went Christmas shopping at the Macy's store on 34th Steet, visited Canal Street (it's the black market street with knock offs from Louis Vuitton, Rolex, etc...but don't worry, we didn't give in, we just wanted to see), visited Grand Central Terminal (I learned only tourists call it Grand Central Station), and met up with Caitlin for dinner at an amazing Italian restaurant called Becco's and dessert at a famous bakery called Magnolia Bakery. I think the first thing I miss from New York, is the amazing food and eating out at fun, fancy restaurants! 

Nick and his philly cheese steak!

Had to walk in and check where their fries were from!

Macy's on 34th Street! 

Canal Street

 Grand Central Terminal

Again, thank you Caitlin for letting us stay with you and giving us our own personal tour of New York City, especially for taking us to eat at your favorite restaurants! You are amazing and we loved every minute we were there! Caitlin and New York City, we hope to return soon! You will be missed tremendously! 

Love,

the Durrants