NYC

I think it's pretty amazing I've been up for 19 hours straight (except for my quick nap on the train back home).. usually I can't handle that, at all. Started out the day by waking up at 5:45 and showering. We left the house at 6:40 to go pick up my grandfather and head to the Hamilton train station. OH, the Hamilton train station. Probably the WORST part of the trip. Not only was the only way to get tickets through the automated systems, they were SO SLOW. We were waiting in line for awhile until we found more ticket booths hidden away. We used those machines, and since we needed three adult round trip and a senior.. well my mom used one to get my grandfather's senior pass, and my machine had to print SIX tickets.. it had to take somewhere between 3-5 minutes. Luckily as SOON as the last ticket printed the train was there, but we almost didn't make it on; I had to jump and pull the doors open again before it closed. They gave like 30 seconds to get on, it was crazy. So we rode the train for about an hour and a half into Penn Station. When we got there we went up and walked down 33rd St past the Empire State Building, down to 3rd Ave and went south to 23rd St, where my brother's college he wants to go to - the School of Visual Arts - was. We got a quick free breakfast, sat through two hours of presentations, and then had a quick lunch. We then toured the two housing areas that guys can stay at. After that, we left. We walked down 23rd St to Broadway and got on a train down to Canal St in Chinatown. We wandered around there a bit, and headed down to Ground Zero. It had changed a lot since I was there, with the train station now open again underneath. There's a lot more viewing area down there as well. We hopped on the subway there and headed up to 42nd St, Times Square. We went into the giant Toys R Us, and then wandered up to Planet Hollywood and got some food. After dinner we walked more north to Rockefeller Center and saw the Christmas Tree, not completely done yet since it needs lights, but still there :) And the ice skating rink. Then we hopped on a subway near there and headed back to 34th St, where we walked back to Penn Station and got on a train to home. We got back around 8:30. All in all it was a pretty good day. I did the navigating, and we only got turned around once (went east intead of west on Canal St) and i noticed it pretty quick. We saw a lot, and my brother has actually never been to NYC before. So yea, that was my day. Definitely different than the norm.