Our Final Day in NYC

Saturday was again a jam packed day!!  We were thrilled to find another Irish Pub restaurant that was open for breakfast so we actually had a great sit-down meal!  And then we were off to Top of the Rock!

The Top of the Rock is at the Rockefeller Center - comparable to the Empire State Building in that it's very high with awesome views!   Because Teri and I had been to the Empire State Building years ago, we chose to go up this one!!  Check out this beautiful chandelier!!

The views at the top were amazing!!!

Looks like a gray city doesn't it???? We hung out a while at the top, just checking out the views from different angles.

Here you can see 2 lower levels of people.

Then we were off for our Dessert Tour!!  We met a gal (who was training another gal so she was there also) who is an actress and along with one other person, we took a 3 hour walking tour going to 6 different places to try a small dessert!  The gal was great and not only gave us some history along the way, but told us about each stop we made!!

Most of the places were very small like bakeries and although we took pics of each dessert, I'm just going to list them:  baklava, sour cream apple walnut pie, cheesecake, double chocolate chip cookie and crispy swamp treats, black and white cookie and chocolate egg cream (which is a drink that tastes like chocolate milk with fizz in it - not my favorite!!!)   Everything was delicious but I have to say the pie was the BEST!!!  It was a great tour and I'm glad we did it!!

Next on the list was Central Park!!  Our Dessert Tour ended not too far from it so we walked there.   Central Park was beautiful but I was very disappointed that all the leaves were brown - no color at all to them - guess it's just been too dry!!

There were lots of people walking around and after all the tall buildings and cement, I'm sure a lot of people spend their weekends here to just see some GREEN!!!

It was a little confusing where to go as we didn't have a map of the park, and although we could have spent hours there seeing lots of different things, our main objective was to see Strawberry Fields!  This is the spot dedicated to John Lennon who was killed right outside his apartment which is across the street!

It was crowded there - a guy was playing a guitar and singing Beatles songs, and some people dropped rose petals and pennies on this spot!

After Central Park, we got back on the subway and made a stop at Kleinfelds for Patty - she watches the show "Say Yes To The Dress" and this bridal shop is where it is filmed!  There were some gorgeous gowns there!!

The end of the tours!!  We breathed a sigh of relief that we made it through all of them and decided to eat NYC pizza for dinner at John's!!

We were all starving and and as soon as the pizza came, we dug in before I realized we hadn't taken a picture of it!!  And it was delicious!!

We packed up our bags when we got back to the apartment and actually relaxed a little bit before hitting the sack that night!!  Did we walk a lot in NYC?  5 miles the first afternoon, 7 miles the next day, 8 miles on Friday and 10 miles on Saturday!!  No wonder our feet were sore!!

The next morning we walked to a local diner which had been recommended to us and ate breakfast there - it was excellent with HUGE portions!!

Our driver picked us up at the apartment and we headed to the airport, saying our final good-bye to NYC!  I was glad the flight home was uneventful and it sure felt great to be back home!

What a FANTASTIC Sisters Trip to NEW YORK CITY!!  One more trip to put into our memories!