Another Visit and More Pictures!

I know Emily is thinking...Finally! :) Yes - a month later I'm finally posting the pictures from her little visit to my side of the Country. Emily was out east the last week of August and she was able to spend a couple of days with me...which was great! I worked my butt off all week so that when she was here on the weekend I wouldn't have to work...(She was here on a Sunday and Labor Day Monday...so you would think I wouldn't have to work anyway...but that's another story).

I met Emily in New Haven after her trip to Boston and we walked around Yale Campus. It still confuses me when I see people with "Y" on hats and sweaters out here. I always have to remind myself that it is not BYU that the Y is referring to.

Yale is a beautiful campus. I haven't seen all of Harvard campus...but out of the two - I think I like Yale better. The buildings are just so old and beautiful. So much history.

Monday - Labor Day....Em and I took the train to NY for some sightseeing...and here are a few pictures...

ah.....don't ask! :)

We took the train to Grand Central Station...

And then took the subway to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was my first time to the Met. Emily is a big Museum person....Me, not so much! I can go to just about any museum and go through the entire thing in about an hour. I like art...but I look and move on.

So - I did a lot of sitting in the Museum while I waited for Emily to catch up to my fast pace! :) And I had absolutely no problem with that...I'm just glad Emily enjoyed it!

Yes - that's me on the bench again! :)

Modern Art - it is always so....interesting. Sometimes I wonder who is the person to determine what goes in a Museum..

I took Emily to Lombardi's Pizza.....and then we hit up Rice to Riches right accross the street.

And then of course...we went to the (free) staten island ferry. Much better weather than when Myra was in town...so i got a few better pictures this time around.

Emily with Lower Manhattan in the background..

Brooklyn Bridge

Lower Manhattan

So - because the sun was so bright, I couldn't really see when I was taking this picture..but it looked like it might be cool...so I took a few. I like how it turned out with the sun on the water.

And of course...the Statue of Liberty!

Us on the Ferry!

A shot of Brooklyn - I like this picture.

After the Ferry ride we went up to Time Square and some tourists were kind enough to take our picture after they had us take theirs.

This is in the Time Square Toys R US Store..which I think is one of the coolest stores in NYC. It has a ferris wheel inside the store and just a lot of fun things..

And if you like Hershey Chocolate....you'll like this store.

It was a fun day. We really wanted to go see a broadway show..but just a note to any of you that might be planning on coming to visit me - Monday is a bad day to try to see a show b/c most of them don't have any shows on Monday.