well i am now back from the trip. I must say it was quite fun. and now its time to break it down and tell about each day and what happened and to show pics of each place and so on.
so:
Day 2 (when we actually got to New York)
just entering NYC
pic inside of Time Square where the ball drops on New Years.
-BreakFast at Planet HollyWood: this was ok. nothing special just a buffet style breakfast of the usual breakfast foods. the best part of this was all of the stuff from Movies around the place. This place was in Time Square.
ahh yes of course this statue. i had to take a pic of it. also...there were still Ice Skaters on the ice in front of it and one hit the wall and fell XD im cruel.
-Tour of Radio City Music Hall: this was quite interesting and i have several pics from here. we got to meet one of the rockettes (which if you dont know who they are then i guess you can google them)
Just outside Radio City Music Hall
The Grand Foyer inside. the tour guide got in the way of the pic >_<
the stage inside. it had such a nice feel to it. unfortunately i couldnt get a better pic of it. i wanted one from a upper balcony.
-Guided City Tour: this was IMO quite boring. i fell asleep several times on the bus during this. However we did see some memorable things. the main one of course being Ground Zero (where the World Trade Centers where before 9/11 for those who by chance dont know) I also have several random pics from this tour, some are funny.
2 pics of Ground Zero. Unfortunately i couldnt get any better pics of it. these 2 were taken from inside a building on a second floor. we did walk right next to it but as you can see there is a partition wall.
the Statue of Liberty from a far while on the bus tour
-Lincoln Center tour: this was boring and since we were late getting there we didnt have that much time. some of the things in it were cool but nothing too special IMO.
-Check into hotel: yay sleep which i didnt get on the bus ride to NYC the night before
Day 3
-Arrive at Liberty State Park: nothing special here.....we just unloaded and headed towards the ferry that was going to take us over to Ellis Island.
-Performing at statue of Liberty: this was awesome although we werent directly in front of it. in fact we were behind it in this plaza like area. It was still a great experience though.
-Tour Ellis Island: well because the ferry took so long we didnt have much time for touring after the Performance. so all we really did was get a perfessional picture of the band in front of the statue of liberty (yes actually in front of it this time) and kinda walked around while waiting for the next ferry back to the city.
3 pics of the statue of Liberty all taken from the ferry as these ones turned out to be the best of the bunch IMO.
-lunch: well.....because the ferries took so long we had to skip lunch.....
-Tour Empire State building / Shopping at Macy*s: now before when i posted the schedule i had these 2 events separated. BUT because we were quite late due to the ferry thing we were pushed for time and because many of my class mates that were going on the trip were so set on going to the overly sized Macy's Store we split into 2 groups as if we would have stayed at the Empire State Building waiting to get in line they wouldnt have gotten to go to Macy's to shop. so.......me and 10 other people stayed in the line for the nice view from the 86th floor of the Empire State building while the other 72 people went to Macy's. All i have to say is...the ones who went to Macy's instead are dumb asses and im so glad i stayed for the Empire State Building.
the Empire State Building from a far. Taken while on the bus tour.
the view on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building
See to the left on this pic is the Chrysler Building
another view. notice in the top right there are 2 islands in the water. one of which has the Statue of Liberty on it.
another pic of the Statue of Liberty. this was taken from the Empire State building of course. This pic was taken with my camera either almost all the way zoomed in or all the way...cant remember.
-Dinner: nothing great. we ate at a Family owned Apple bees and of course werent given much of a choice on what to eat.
-Depart to go see Wicked AKA BROADWAY! : this was freakin awesome. i never thought this woulda been as good as it was. If you ever go to New York I HIGHLY suggest trying to see this especially if you like the Wizard of Oz as this tells how the Wicked Witch of the West became that and stuff. So yeah it was really good.
unfortunately there were no pictures allowed for the performance of course and i didnt have time to take some of the theatre
-Check into hotel: Yay more sleep!
Day 4 (at this point we leave NYC and head for D.C.)
-Depart to Six Flags: well......it turned out that when our tour guide talked to the Six Flag people again there was a problem. Six Flags opened on the very next day after we were originally planned to go there. So that meant we had to decide on something else to do. So.....we went to Philadelphia instead. (planned like a week and a half before the trip) there we just toured the historic buildings in Philadelphia and saw the liberty bell.
well i know this building had some very important thing but i cant remember the buildings name
this is THE very room where the Declaration of Independence was signed. George Washington sat in the very chair that is in the center of the pic.
the liberty bell.
this is where Benjamin Franklin is buried. IMO he is one of the most honorable Americans that has ever lived
There is irony about the pic though. Ben Franklin once said "A Penny saved is a penny earned." now notice whats been placed all over his grave stone. lots of pennies. ironic much? seeing as he was telling people to save their money and now they waste it by placing it on his grave stone.
-Dinner at Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore: nothing great. the food was decent but not spectacular and the music they were playing wasnt very good IMO.
-Check into hotel: yet again more sleep.
Day 5 (Washington D.C. now)
-Depart for Capitol Building Tour: this tour was ok but was cut short due to us needing to get to our performance place. Although I have some hilarious pics of some of the protesters out in front of it. XD those will go into the bottom miscellaneous pics though
-.....Performance at.....The Jefferson Memorial: Wellll this was also changed....we were told that the area there floods a lot and often times right up to the steps of the Jefferson Memorial...so instead of playing there we got to play at the World War II memorial with the Washington monument just off in front of us away. Another great performance (well i guess it was great lol)
-Tour Smithsonian Museums: borring provided we had to stay with chaperons the entire time and my group stayed at the Air and Space museum the entire time. which was like.....4 hours
-Depart for Dinner cruise which will be on the Potomac river: this was pretty cool. The actual meal was a salad, then on to meat lasagna with sides of green beans with almonds on them and steamed carrots, then we had desert which was either Apple Pie or Chocolate Mousse. The Lasagna was pretty good although iv had home made lasagna much better. however the lasagna pieces were HUGE! no joke they were.... After the dinner there was of course dancing......which woulda been good and all if they woulda kept playing the same music they had playing while we were eating dinner which was the slower jazz like stuff in which you could slow dance to......but once people finished dinner and actually started dancing they switched the music over to crap stuff. so i ended up just sitting down the entire time once that sh*t came on.
-after the 3 hour cruise we board the buses and head home.....which goes through the night: another joyful time on the bus over night. well....at least this time the stupid people on my bus didnt decide to keep every body awake all night like they did the first time.
so long read...i tried to keep it short for you and i cut some stuff out...but its hard making a several day trip like this to be short when described. So this section of this post is going to be used for the random pics.
anyways that was my trip. i had lots of fun.
***NOTE I still have lots more pictures to show and possibly other things to add. I will add it later as I don't have enough time right now plus i think there are enough pics for now (21 pics uploaded) and i dont want to cause a lot of lag right now.***
My band spring break trip, JOY! :)
Jan 27 2007, 12:22 AM
Cyborg Reaper
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oh well this trip will kick ass compared to the sh*t EA will put out.
Well done, but yea I wanted to see "wicked"--too expensive though
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