28 Hours in New York

Empire State Building
Times Square
How New Yorkers sip their coffee
Rockefeller Center

January 4, 2008, Friday. E and I were really excited that we will be spending the next two days in New York with our dear friends DL and RL. From New Jersey (New Brunswick Station), we took the train to New York's Penn Station (USD10 per person + tax). From the train station, we walked all the way up 7th Avenue (or was it 8th? I forget) to reach some of our must (photo)stops in NYC: The Empire State Building and Times Square. Our friend DL met us somewhere in between the Empire State Building and Times Square.

After the long (and very cold) walk, we had a light lunch at Europa Cafe (which according to DL is very New York) right in the middle of Times Square to grab sandwiches and to plan our itinerary for the day.

After E relayed his unsuccessful search of the "cruet", DL suggested Soho. Among our stops were Dean and Deluca, The Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel in Soho. Still no such luck. We had coffee in one of the coffee shops, and that's where we learned how New Yorkers like to sip their coffee. Interesting...

We headed next to Fifth Avenue for some serious window shopping and photo ops at Radio City Music Hall and right by the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center.

We then met RL, DL's dear husband for dinner at Morton's Bar 12.21 for a couple of their famous mini burgers and fillet mignon sandwiches. Yummy! We decided to spend the rest of the evening in DL's and RL's beautiful apartment, and took home dessert from Junior's Cheesecake and The Little Pie Company.

The evening was spent looking at pictures from their trip to Malta, catching up for DL and I, and computer games for RL and E.

We had a very full, exciting and fun-filled day, and it was great to see our dear friends!