New York City Fun!

 I'm happy to report that Summer

returned safe and sound this

morning...very early this morning. 

 The only thing I asked her for were

good pictures of HER in NYC.

This was my favorite.  She wasn't a

very big fan of asking others to take

her picture...so we got a lot of these: 

 It's cute, but the Statue of Liberty

lost a head, torso, and arms in the process.

 She loved Times Square.  She went there

3 of the nights, one of which they were filming

a New Years Eve commercial and there were

extras everywhere, a mock version of the ball

drop, and camera crews.  She thought that

was pretty cool!  Spiderman was there on a

different night.  She searched high and low for

The Naked Cowboy, but he was nowhere to

be seen.  Bummer!  Next time for sure.

 Strawberry Fields in Central Park was

one thing she enjoyed.  I was sad to see

how dead the grass and trees were.  We

went in  October and everything was still

so green and beautiful.  She was a little

disappointed that Central Park wasn't as

green and beautiful as I had described it to be.

 She really got around.  They hit a lot of the

hot spots, including:

Ellis Island

Statue of Liberty

Times Square

Toys R Us with the giant ferris wheel

Mamma Mia

The Met

Museum of Natural History

Empire State Building

Subways

Grand Central Station

9/11 Memorial

...and much more!

It was a tour provided by

Smithsonian Student Travel and they

got around on foot and via subway.

Here she is with McKenna on the

subway.  Only 9 kids from her school

got to go and it was an awesome trip.

I'm sure she will gladly tell you all

you want to know about it.  :0)