Day 5- New York City Day 2

Taylor seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time

                On Saturday we woke up REALLY early- 10:30 haha – so we could take the circle line tour of Manhattan.  We headed up to the 42^nd street docks for that, and hopped on the 3 hour tour that circumnavigated the island.  Eric and I talked with some French people in line, so that was very nice.  Garrett seemed to have forgotten his language skills at this point. Haha  The tour was good , but kind of got boring near the end, as it circled north of Harlem into the forest areas of Manhattan.  But the south end of the tour was really neat, I thought.  My favorite part was either seeing the new freedom tower being constructed or going by the statue of liberty.  We didn’t go to the statue of Liberty or Ellis Island (Thank goodness!!  Worst 2 hours wasted of life past! haha).

After the tour around Manhattan, we headed down to Wall Street, to Trinity church, then over to ground zero where we grabbed Pizza right across the street from where the towers were.  I enjoyed being there again.  They have a few buildings going pretty tall, and the freedom tower was well on its way, with a memorial center, as well as the reflection pools looking pretty well done.  We hurried onto the subway and up to China town and little Italy just to walk around, and then headed up towards Yankee Stadium.

The game was fun.  We sat in the bleachers just on the leftfield side of the batters eye.  Sitting out on bleachers was not comfortable, and the stadium is so huge, you could barely see the ball! Haha.  But the Rays were shut down early by CC Sabathia, and by the end of the game, they scored five runs on him by five solo homeruns! Incredible.  The only run the Yankees scored was on a double where the second base runner came around and got nailed at home, so it was a bitter sweet run for the Yanks.  As far as our perspective, I didn’t like the stadium from the bleachers, but I thought up on the batters eye was really cool.  They also had tons of food options, including a butcher in the stadium! The field was completely visible from the concourse which was nice, so as we toured around, we could see everything.  We couldn’t sneak any lower though, because their ticket checkers were like hawks.  So we were confined to the concourse.  We went back to the bleachers for the 9^th and met up with Joe Hawes who was out here working for the summer on Long Island.  So final score 5-1 and an okay grade on the stadium, but not much better than Progressive Field.

At Yankee Stadium

After the game, we actually split up some.  Eric had a girl to meet up with, so he headed towards the city to have his date.  The other three of us hung around a little to avoid metro traffic and we ended up standing outside the players’ parking lot exit for some time and watched fella’s like CC Sabathia, Jorge Posada and Derek Jeter drive off.  Taylor and Garrett headed back to Times Square while I went back to Lynne’s to finish my homework for my music class.  I wrapped up the essay and met up with the fellaz.  They had walked up 5^th avenue to central park, then back down broadway, and I met them in Times Square, and we went to Rockefeller plaza, then down to the Empire State Building.  We snapped a few pictures in each place, then hit up McDonalds (I know, classy) to get some shakes before coming home. We got in around 1:30, and Eric got home soon after.  He said he had a good time and hung out at Washington Square.  I think there was more to the story than he told us, but if he doesn’t want to tell us how his date really went, that’s his choice! :p

They have mormon.org ads in Times Square and on taxi tops, etc

Game prediction standings:

Mitch       4-1 *

Eric         3-2

Taylor     3-2

Garrett    1-4

*asterisks denotes a correct score prediction.

Scoreboard:

Jumbotron appearances: 4

Balls from the game: 2 (Mitch-NYM; Taylor- Balt)

Promotion items: 2 (Garrett- Hat in Cle; Mitch- backpack in Cle)

Stadium hours: 21

Rainouts/ hours: 3.5

Extra innings: 6

Car hours: 16.75

Miles: 900

States:  9