Christmas in Boston then NYC

Welcome to Boston:

Below is a picture of Hannah in the mist! To start with we thought it was a place where people could go to get warm! How neat is that - especially as it was SO cold. However, as we moved through the steaming columns we found out it was a memorial to those who did in the Holocaust! Oh dear! How bad did we feel!





















From Boston we went to NYC - The Big Apple! As soon as we got downtown we found ourselves in Times Square:









































This is the Christmas tree at the Rockafella center:




















The next day was Christmas Day! We woke up, opened our presents and look what I got from my sister Shelley:

















Jackie - A blast from the past! I also got some other great presents and some money to fund this memorable trip - Thanks to everyone!

After opening our presents, we went to the Millenium Hotel in downton NYC. The Millenium in Raleigh was where we first met so to meet here for NYC was very special.

Here is a picture we got taken before we went to our table:
















Where we were staying was near the restaurant where they filmed the outside shots of Seinfeld:
















Our home for the next 7 days we found on Craigs List. All 6 of us stayed in this appartment! But heh it only cost us $100 each for the 7 days! A hotel would have cost us $300 a night! Here is the appartment:

















And here is the cat we had to look after whilst we were there. His name was Israel. Yes the family who lived in the appartment were Jewish!
















During the first few days of our trip, we went to Central Park. It was a lovely place and the film set for so many films. On New Year's Eve I even got to go skating in Central Park - a childhood dream!




































We also went on a tour of other famous film/tv landmarks. This is the outside of the Friends house:





















And this is the restaurant which was in Hitch. It was called Rice to Riches:


















After our tour we ended up at the M&M store:






















Then we bumped into Jon Bon!




















Ok so it was at Madam Tussards!

The next day we headed down town and saw some of the sites!

This is Grand Central Station:

















The flat iron building:






















Wall Street:


















Statue of Liberty:




















From the ferry, this was the view of Manhattan:
















The skyline had completely changed from the last time I was there. The twin towers certainly dominated the skyline before.

Talking of the twin towers, next to the ferry terminal, was this:




















This was the globe statue which was outside the World Trade Center. Next to a building site with nothing but a flame.

At the actual site of where the twin towers were is this scene:



















There are photographs of the actual day. This were both emotional and shocking to see.

In the church opposite (which apparently was damaged at all):























In the church were lots of things that people left around the site after the event, including many police/fire officers badges:


















On New Year's Eve in the evening we went out for a meal in a posh Italian near our house. We then went downtown. We tried to get to 42nd street but unfortunately you could get no where near. However we did find a bar where we met up with our other friends.

This is me and Jodie and yes I had a lovely pair of those 2007 glasses too!

This was a view of the scene at 42nd street from our cozy bar!

This is me, Jodie and Orla:

Me, Martina and Paula:

A group shot of the girls: