Tricia's Travel Blog

From our hotel room you could see part of the New York skyline Saturday morning we decided to just drive in to New York. We wanted to go to the Statue of Liberty and decided to park near that. It was expensive parking, but that way we didn't have to take the train around as much. You can see the new World Trade Center building under construction      Luckily the weather cooperated for us and it didn’t rain. We couldn’t go up in the statue as they only let a limited amount of people in it, and those tickets where already gone. We did eat breakfast/lunch on the island before returning to the New York side.      Then we took the subway up to NBC studios where we took a tour. It was really cool. We got to see where Brian Williams films the Evening News, and the set of the Dr. Oz show. The coolest part though was they took us down to the Saturday Night Live set, and they were rehearsing for that nigh...

When we got to our hotel in East Rutherford, NJ we learned that they had a free shuttle to the Secaucus train station. Then from there it was a 10 min ($8 per person round trip) train ride into Penn Station in New York City.      It was very hot and humid in the city and we were having to carry around our jackets. We wanted to walk up towards Time Square and the Rockefeller Center. We were both really hungry when we got up by the Rockefeller so we ate in the mall below. Then we found the NBC store and they told us where to wait in line for the Jimmy Fallon tickets the next morning. Plus I found the studio for the Today show, which I like to watch. Also near the Rockefeller Center was a huge Lego store, they had really cool things made out of Legos throughout the store, as well as any Lego set you could ever want. Inside the Lego Store Bins of Legos Even though there were signs posted not to honk, they were still honking away. The Naked ...

     Wednesday morning we got up and said goodbye. We stopped by a race shop on the way to Philadelphia for Nate to try on racing shoes. After arriving in Philadelphia we decided to head into town to try find something to eat. We had Tom Tom directing us but the restaurant didn’t exist where it took us, so we decided to eat at a Qdoba since we already paid to park, and traffic was a nightmare.      Thursday we got up and headed to the Liberty Bell Center, to see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. We did the tour of Independence Hall first which is where we got to see the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed. Then we went into the Liberty Bell Center where they have all kinds of information on the Bell as well as the real thing. We left shortly after because it was getting close to lunch time and we still had a bit of a drive to get up to New York. A template for making quarters Independence Hall P...

     Monday we drove into Washington DC with Matt and his girlfriend Amelia. As they had already been to DC many times we thought the Duck Tour would be different and fun. As our tour started out our driver told us you have to watch out for the 3 P’s; potholes, pedestrians, and politicians. First he showed us the C-span building that has several rooms on top with clear windows. He told us that if the news was reporting from Capitol hill and you could see the capitol building behind them, then that is where they are reporting from. Then as we drove by the carpenter unions building he asked if we noticed anything funny about it . . . there is no wood on the building. Apparently there is a city code that doesn’t allow the exteriors of buildings to have wood, because during the revolutionary war the British army came into town and tried to burn the city. C-Span Building. Japanese American War Memorial      We passed the old...