Written By: Susan Moccia

New York City
April 24, 2008
Day 1

We left home a 4 a.m. for the big city. We arrived in New York at about 10:30 and checked into the hotel. A ride on the subway took us to the southern tip of Manhattan. The wait for the Statue of Liberty was so long that we decided to come back in the morning.
Our Next stops were Wall Street, ground Zero, China town. There we ate noodles at Great N.Y. Noodletown, Little Italy (Where Ted had a pastry), and then some shopping in SoHo.
Another subway ride took us to Midtown and the Empire State Building. We waited in very long lines and rode to the 86th floor to the observatory and took many pictures of the Manhattan skyline. We walked back to the hotel to freshen up and met Hannah Brown for dinner at Amarone, an Italian restaurant.

Hannah traveled to Jinhua with students from OHCHS in 2006. After our meal, we walked to Times Square to see the bright lights. we were very tired and went to the hotel around 11:00 pm to retire for the night.

Day 2
Ted and Max went out first thing in the morning for a bagel and coffee and walked to the Rockerfeller Center where they film NBC news and Good Morning America.
We left th hotel at 7:00 a.m. and took the subway back to Battery Park and the Statue of Liberty. Ted was able to get tickets out to Liberty Island and into the Statue. Acquiring tickets usually needs to be done weeks in advance, so we were very lucky.
Ted and Max had lots of fun posing and taking pictures. Because we had to check out of the hotel soon, we took a cab ride back and our Russian driver was very fast and got us there with time to spare.
We also went to the United Nations and toured the building then went back to Times Square and had a lunch of pizza.
After two busy days, we headed for home at 4:00 p.m. and arrived back in Norway at 11:30.

GREAT TRIP!!!!