Andrea Heyfron Photography

|nyc ~ day 3|

Our final day in NYC.  Still 95* with 90% humidity and we braved upper Manhattan.  Central park, Fifth Ave, Rockafeller Center is what the day had in store for us.  We started out in Central park and walked all the way back to our hotel via 5th Ave.  We had to make one pit stop in Tiffany & Co. to "cool off."  I figured if we needed an AC break we might as well stop in one of my favorite stores :).  Anyway.....we had a good day, got lots of exercise and ended the night at Otto's Pizzeria for dinner.  All in all, it was a great trip and we've checked off one stadium on our list of baseball stadiums to visit!

Stairway at Central Park...

The Pond at Central Park...

Flowers at Central Park...

Entrance to Central Park and Plaza Hotel...

The Plaza Hotel...

NYC Cab on 5th Ave (this one is for my friend Melissa who "slightly" likes Louis Vuitton)...

Hot dog cart on 5th Ave...

New York Pretzels...

Empire State Building in the distance...

42nd Street...

Grand Central Station...

To see our whole NYC album, click here

|nyc ~ day 2|

Day 2 consisted of BASEBALL!  This was the whole reason why we went to NYC.....so we could see the A's play at Yankee Stadium during the final season of the stadium.  Although the A's were swept :( we still had a great time. The stadium was sold out!  We arrived at 10:45am and the line to get through doors was 50 people deep and 50 people wide at each entrance.  The doors opened at 11 and the game started at 1:05.  We managed to wander around the stadium to check out each of the levels then ultimately found our seats to watch the game.  We were a little apprehensive being at the home field of true Yankee's fans, while we wore our green and gold but everyone that we encountered was really nice!  We even managed to have our picture taken in front of the field by an NYPD officer.  While the game didn't end the way we wanted it to, it was pretty cool to see a game at such a historic stadium and maybe some day we'll take in a game at the new Yankee Stadium that opens next season.  Now on to the pictures....

Subway station, destination Yankee Stadium....

Stadium view from the subway platform...

The street outside of the stadium...

All-star Banners...

The Stadium...

Jason Giambi up to bat...

Monument Park in left center field...

Field view...

Brett and I in our Green and Gold...

Kurt Suzuki up to bat...

Every team has one.....their biggest fan.  The Yanks have Freddy and he goes to every home game with a sign...

Day 3 to be posted soon...

|nyc ~ day 1|

As I was looking through our NYC pictures I hard a time narrowing down my favorites for just one post, so I decided to break them up into the 3 days that we were there.  Day 1 consisted of hanging out in lower Manhattan.  We were staying in Midtown, right next to Grand Central Station so it was easy for us to take the subway where ever we wanted to go.  Ground Zero, Wall Street, The Brooklyn Bridge were on the agenda for the day.  95* and 90% humidity does not make for the best walking around town weather, but we managed.  Here are some of my favorite images of the day....

Our Subway Stop...

Street View of City Hall...

 

Water Fountain @ Battery Park...

World Trade Center Memorial...

One of Many Old Buildings...

Wall Street...

New York Stock Exchange on Wall St.

New York Stock Exchange...

 

Brooklyn Bridge...

Brick Road...

Chrysler Building (right next to our hotel)...

Day 2 coming soon....

|back from vacation|

.......and this is where we went!

 

and no, I'm not a Yankee's fan. :)  The A's were playing at the historic Yankee Stadium for the last time.  The new Yankee Stadium will open next year so we thought it would be fun to check out a piece of history, see a game at "the house that Ruth built" and enjoy a little bit of New York City while we were there.  More pictures to come soon!