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Sunday, 6 August 2006
I'm back in the country!
Got back today (Saturday). To start, here's the list of all the stuff I did in NYC and DC:
NYC:
- Empire State Building
- Statue of Liberty
- Ellis Island
- Times Square
- Chrysler Building
- Rockefeller Centre
- Broadway (I saw Lion King)
- Central Park
- Strawberry Fields (the John Lennon memorial part of CP)
- Dakota Building (where John got shot)
- Chinatown
- Little Italy
- Helicopter ride over NYC skyline
- Macy's (largest store in the world)
- The Hard Rock Café
- Ground Zero (WTC site)
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Morgan Library and Museum
- Madame Tussuards
- Staten Island Ferry
- Brooklyn Bridge
Washington D.C.:
- Washington Monument
- The White House, and visitors' centre
- JFK Grave in Arlington Cemetery
- The Hard Rock Café
- Senate Building
- FDR Memorial park (Roosevelt)
- Scouts Monument
- Post Office tower with view of Washington
- Lincoln Memorial
- Columbas Monument
- and many many more Monuments...
Here are a few photos from the trip:
The e-postcard shot I took on a webcam in this booth in Times Square
A picture dipicting a typical scene in New York, check out all the taxis, oh and the iPod billboard
A road sign pointing out Broadway, 'Avenue of the Strongest' and some street not Worth mentioning...
The Statue of Liberty, taken from a boat
Tom Delonge signed this guitar plaque thing, as A+A, in the Hard Rock Café
The All-American Rejects signed this one too
Grand Central Station; apparently 750,000 people come through here every day
A futuristic artistic photo of the Subway Station in D.C.
The White House
The list of things you're not allowed to take into the White House visitors' centre...
One of the fountains in the park of the Roosevelt (FDR) Memorial
The Washington Monument, and a reflection of the Washington Monument, taken from the edge of the FDR park
The view of the city (mainly the Empire State Building) from the top of the Rockefeller Centre
One of the conference roooms at the U.N.
Part of the Egyption exhibit at The Met
LOL this guy made me chuckle
The Naked Cowgirl
Times Square at night
Strawberry Fields, the John Lennon Memorial park within Central Park
The actual memorial piece. There's a guy who decorates it with flowers and fruits every day
A 9/11 Memorial Park, opposite the hotel I stayed at
Well there they are! A selection of photos from my trip.
Labels: Travels
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 01:09 
