Friday, we grabbed breakfast and then headed over to get on one of the Grayline tour buses. Yes, my friends, we were actual tourists this weekend. None of us had ever taken an actual tour, so we thought it couldn’t hurt. And it helped us avoid the subway for the two days we were there. Our first stop came at the World Trade Center Site. It is always a site to see and I am moved by it each and every time I see it. They are making a lot of progress on the site and I am sure it will be a busy location again before we know it. While there, we stopped into the September 11th Memorial & Museum. It was a very moving memorial and museum to those who perished on September 11th, 2001, almost 8 years ago. It is an extremely emotional place, but it is worth going.
After our stop at the World Trade Center site, we walked down to Battery Park to take a ferry out to see the Statue of Liberty. I have seen the Statue of Liberty several times but only from Battery Park, so it was nice to actually get up close and personal with Lady Liberty, finally. It is a pretty incredible statue. I hope that we go again sometime in the future and actually get to go inside the monument. That evening, we went to the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center to watch the sunset and to catch the city during the day as well as it night. NYC is such a beautiful place, especially at night.
Just a good pic of Chris that I wanted to post!
Lady Liberty
Elizabeth and I mimicking Lady Liberty's pose.
Adam and Elizabeth
Chris and I
Up close and personal with the Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island - We didn't get off the boat here but it looks cool nonetheless.
NYC from the boat
Elizabeth and Adam at the Top of the Rock
Chris and I at the Top of the Rock
Looking downtown before sunset.
Looking uptown before sunset.
Chris and I snapped a few pics of ourselves while waiting on the sun to set.
Chris' serious pose
Up close and personal with me, lol!
It's going, going....
and it's nearly gone.
Looking downtown at night. So pretty!
Another downtown shot
After dinner we had our very first celebrity citing in NYC. As we were making our way back to our hotel after dinner we were walking by Will Ferrell’s Broadway show and noticed lots of people standing outside. We figured that Will must be expected to come out soon, so we waited. We definitely waited longer than we would’ve like, but it paid off. We first saw Ted Danson and his wife Mary Steenbergen who walked straight out and through the crowd and walked down the sidewalk towards Times Square. Chris didn’t get too great of a picture of them because he didn’t realize who it was until it was too late. Oh well, at least we saw them and they literally walked right by Elizabeth and I. After a few more of the show performers came out, Will Ferrell finally appeared. He signed lots of autographs and took pictures with many people. He seemed like a very genuine guy and also seemed a little bit like the characters he plays in movies, lol! Check out his face in the picture below. Doesn’t that look like a face Frank the Tank (Old School) or Chazz Reinhold (Wedding Crashers) would have? HAHA!
Elizabeth and Adam in Times Square
Chris and I in Times Square
I don't think we would like the show, but at least we got the benefit of seeing a celebrity in person.
Ted Danson and Mary Steenbergen, can you pick them out?
Yes, I am happy about ANY celebrity citing, haha!
Will Ferrell's brother
And finally, Mr. Ferrell himself.
Look at that face, too funny!
Saturday was another fun, yet exhausting day in NYC. We started the day off with brunch and then took the uptown loop of the Grayline tours. This was probably the best loop that we took because it took us to places that we had never been to before. We went through the Upper West Side, Harlem, and the Upper East Side. The bus driver informed us of the many celebrities who live in the Upper West Side, so you can bet that I will be traipsing up in that area the next time that Chris and I visit. While on this tour we saw the people who were auditioning for America’s Next Top Model as well as a ton of people waiting in line to get tickets for Showtime at the Apollo.After our tour, we did a little shopping on 5th Avenue and then got lucky when we caught the filming of a scene for the movie Salt. The movie stars Angelina Jolie as a former CIA who is accused of assassinating the President. The scene that we saw was the funeral procession for the President. We didn’t get to see any celebrities during the filming but it was cool nonetheless. Liev Schreiber was supposedly in the scene but I never caught a glance of him. Angelina Jolie was obviously not filming in the area as she probably wouldn’t have been a welcomed guest at the President’s funeral if her character was accused of being the reason for his death. I am looking forward to seeing the movie just to see the scene we saw filming. They literally filmed the exact same thing all day long. Wow, I don’t think I could actually work on a movie set.
Filming of the movie Salt
After another long day in NYC, we got back to our rental car and headed back to Boston. We relaxed for the rest of our evening because we knew we would have another busy day in Boston on Sunday.Sunday, we got to sleep in a little later than we had in NYC and then we made our way down to Southie to attend the St. Patrick’s Day parade. There were tons of people who came out for the parade. We ended up staying for an hour or two watching all of the parade members and then we headed back into Boston. We walked through the Boston Common and the Public Garden and then walked the entire length of Newbury Street. A little shopping was done and I finally got my dark grey t-shirt that I had been looking for since I saw Casey Affleck with one on in Gone Baby Gone. So excited, lol!
Monday night was filled with the Britney Spears/Pussycat Dolls concert, which Elizabeth and I attended. We left the boys at home. This is one of the main reasons for my exhaustion, because I wasn’t able to get in bed until after midnight. This deserves a post of its own so that will be posted soon. Britney looked awesome!
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