We also got tickets to the Dave Letterman Show. To be honest, it was cool to see what goes on when the cameras are off, but Dave Letterman wasn't that funny to me. We watched him every night in NYC, before we went to the taping, and he did the same jokes almost every night. I thought he would be more personable with the audience, but he came out about 30 seconds before the show went live, and took one question from the audience. The guest that night was Don Ruckles, who is an older comedian. He was a lot funnier than Dave. It was exciting to go, plus it was free, so you can't beat that.
We were suckers and paid $60 to go on a 20 minute horse drawn carriage ride through the park. But hey, it's a once in a life time thing, so we can say we did it.
Central Park
Down town sky line as we were heading over the Brooklyn Bridge. We were sitting on the top of a double decker sight seeing bus.
This was Jared's favorite part of the trip, the sight seeing buses. We bought a three day pass, and went on the down-town, up-town, midtown, Brooklyn and night Brooklyn tours. We had some really good bus tour guides who told a lot of the history of the city. 
TIMES SQUARE
We stayed in Midtown, Times Square was about 2 blocks from the hotel. We walked to Times Square almost every night. It was insane in Times Square, people and police everywhere. Three weeks prior to us going to New York, a terrorist attempted to blow up a car bomb in Times Square, so police were out in full force the entire time we were there.
Famous FDNY
Tribute on the outside of the Midtown fire station. They lost 11 crew members in the 911 attack.
World Trade Center- Ground Zero. They are rebuilding new towers, the tallest tower on the right is the new tower 7. There will be a Tower 1 and a tribute tower, and a few smaller towers. We went on an amazing guided tour of Ground Zero. The tour guides were people who were personally involved during 911. One of the guys was a "captain" for the waste company, who was heavily involved in the aftermath cleanup. The other tour guy, his brother was a captain on the fire department, who was killed when the towers collapsed. It was so interesting to hear their perspective of the day, and the aftermath. We went to a museum after the tour that had artifacts that were found during clean up, such as shoes, watches, keys, pieces of the building. They also had a wall, and pictures posted of all those that perished. It was a gut wrenching visit to the site, such a devastating loss.
Snapshot in a window of the bus we were riding on. You can see that the movie Sex and the City was being promoted on every bus. In fact, while we were there, the red carpet premiere at the famous Radio City Music hall took place.
Statue of Liberty, in all her GLORY
We waiting in line for over 3 hours to get on the ferry that goes to the Statue of Liberty. As you can see Jared has the "I can't believe I am standing in this line" face. It was miserable. It was hot, and muggy, and we were hungry and thirsty. By the time we actually got on the ferry, we were exhausted from standing and didn't feel like waking much. We stayed at the Statue of Liberty for about 20 minutes, and then took the ferry to Ellis Island. This is the immigration station that approx 12 million people went through as they immigrated into the United States.
For our ten year anniversary Jared and I went to New York City. We originally were going to go to Hawaii, and then I decided I wasn't bikini ready, and we had never been to the East coast, so I talked him into New York. What an amazing city. I never realized how many movies, and TV shows are filmed, or based, in New York. What I loved the most was the history behind the city.
It was great to spend a week with Jared. We don't get a lot of time off together, let alone a vacation together without kids. Our wonderful mothers, Carma and Kathy, shared babysitting duties so we could have some much needed time together. Thanks moms, and thanks Jared for such a great trip. I love you and can't wait to see where we go for our 20 yr anniversary. ;)
