One Fun Day!

I LOVE NYC!

Yesterday I met up with my friends, Heather and Karen, in NYC. All three of us are in the same process of preparing to serve the work of Bible translation somewhere in the world. We went through training together in North Carolina this past summer. Heather and I also worked together in Orlando, Florida.

We started the day off with a nice long walk from Penn Station to Heather's friend's apartment. It was a nice way to see what felt like ALL of Park Avenue. Afterwards, we took the subway (yay for not walking!) to the Empire State Building. We quickly decided that we didn't need to go to the top when we saw how much it cost. It was a cloudy day, so it just didn't seem worth it.

We had hot dogs for lunch.

We had fun walking around and exploring all over the city. And using the subway to save our poor feet and legs from falling off! Yes, we are tourists!

We visited St. Paul's Chapel. This historic church stands across the street from where the Twin Towers stood. There is an amazing history behind this church.
The tree stump is all that's left of the sycamore tree that shielded the church from damage.

We walked around Wall Street. We were there on the day they called the great "panic of 2008." There were news crews there covering the story about the stock market.

It was also the day that Heath Ledger died. :( It was a busy "news" day in the city.
We took a break from our day of walking to have delicious desserts and nice hot drinks at Flavors. It was nice to take a break and sit and chat for a while.

I enjoy these ladies. They are a lot of fun and good to talk with. I also appreciated our time together because it was good to hear how things are going as they too are in this same process that I am in.

We met up with Karen's brother at his work and thanks to his suggestion, we had a great dinner at a Japanese Noodle House - I think it was Men Kui Tei. It was a pretty cold day, so a big bowl of Char-Shu Men (soy sauce flavored noodle soup topped w/extra pieces of roast pork) was perfect! The pork in it was sooo tasty!! We also had some shumai and kimchee which were both delicious! YUMMMY!!

After dinner we walked around the city some more. We stopped in H&M. We walked through Rockefeller Center. We saw a poor guy fall and cut open his head on the ice skating rink. The rink workers just scraped up the blood from the ice with their skates. Hmmm...wonder if health inspectors would have okay'd that move? :)

And then we walked over to Times Square. Basically saw lots of bright lights!

I love the city. There's just so much energy, history, culture, great food,...! Sad that I've spent most of my life just a short train ride away, but really haven't spent much time there. Ahhh... need to plan more trips in the future!!

I had one fun day!