Girls Weekend in New York City

We had very full day on Fri. and besides taking the ferry to Staten Island and seeing the Statue of Liberty on the way we also went to ground zero.  There was this memorial on the wall of a fire station near by.  Pretty awesome to see the big hole in the ground where they are working and think about all the things that have happened here.  There were also pictures of the buildings and a park they are planning to build there.
We did some shopping at the Century 21 store that says it is New York's best kept secret but when we got in the store it was packed with people buying LOTS of stuff.  I guess the secret is out.  

We did a lot of travel by subway and also took a cab up to Bloomingdales since the Concierge at the hotel had given us a little packet of coupons for Bloomingdales.  Allison got a free cappicino and Jamie and I got free frozen yogurt.  Then we headed to Times Square and did a little more shopping before heading back to the hotel to get ready for the play.

We had a great steak dinner near the theatre and then headed over to the play.  It was really a lot of fun and very well done.  It had a few more songs than the original animated feature and Amanda decided she liked this version better.  She also told us last night that if she had to have another job that she would like to be a Broadway Actress.  Who knows, maybe we'll see here there someday!

Sunday we checked out of the hotel and headed to Central Park.  We visited "the lawn" were there are some baseball diamonds and there were quite a few people playing ball.  Then we went to the "castle."  The girls climbed the stairs up into the building.