Today was a FULL FULL day!!!  We began w/a bus tour of downtown Manhatten (thank Heaven we didn't have to WALK) then we WALKED the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhatten to Brooklyn.  It was fun, cold & beautiful!  The cars were driving under us!  It was cool!!  After walking all the way to Brooklyn we turned around and walked all the way BACK to Manhatten!!  WHY you ask?  I HAVE NO CLUE!!!  haha  Just to say WE DID IT that's why!  Oh and our tour guide told us too!  She loves to torture us!!

We went to a church across the street from Ground Zero.  During the explosions every building around the WTC was damaged except for this church!!  It didn't even have a cracked window pane!!  Today I got a good picture of a cross that is actually an I-beam from the World Trade Centers.  When it came crashing down the cross actually landed the way it is in this picture!!  Just 2 more reminders that God is always in control!!!  We had seen the cross on another day but I didn't get a good pic of it.

From there we had lunch under Rockefeller Center.  Then it was on to a tour of Radio City Music Hall that has been restored to it's original 1932 condition.  WOW!!  What an amazing theater for that time period!!  It's amazing even for 2008!!  We got to go backstage and on stage!  I wanted to break out in song but the tour guide wouldn't be quiet long enough for me to!  haha  We saw Rockette costumes, Roxy's suite and we even met a real live Rockette!  Daddy was 1st in line for a picture! 

When we got out of Radio City Music Hall we actually had 2 1/2 hrs FREE TIME!!!  WooHoo!!!  We walked some streets of Time Square & found Fox News, Ed Sullivan Theater & the Hershey store.  Todd even found the perfect place to get a picture for Bub!!  hahaha   Every 5 min N was telling me...  Mom, this is where Spiderman did this or that....  He was loving seeing all the things he's seen in the Spiderman movies.  We saw a dog park!  The dogs are happy to be there out of their crowded apartment buildings but the people look miserable!  It stinks like dog wee!!  Imagine that!!  While walking and taking it all in S said...  Mom, is this a real city or are we dreamin'?  Ahhhh.....  

To add more magic to this "dream" we went ice skating at Rockefeller Center.  FUN, FUN, FUN!!  The longer we stayed the better the boys got at it.  T was doing spins & leg lifts.  N was in his own world & S finally got the courage to let go of Daddy's hand and he was going VERY FAST!!  The video is too cute of him.  It was like he was thinking.... I can't stop... I can't stop.... 

For dinner we went to Mars 2112 and ate w/the aliens!!  Then it was off to the Empire State Building!  Most of my pics were blurring cuz I was SHAKING so bad!!  But it was fun and VERY COLD!!

Well stayed tuned... tomorrow will bring more excitement as we end our trip....