NYC!! Part 1

So yesterday was my birthday... (Happy Birthday to Me :) which means....I'm in New York!!  Yup...my dad took me up to Midtown NY for the week, so I could hang out with him, and see a different side of the US...  So far it's been pretty awesome, and, just because I'm mean (and bored :), I'll give you a quick rundown of the past few days...

Day 1: Sunday~ We arrived mid afternoon, and just toured around by our hotel, conveniently placed in the middle of everything...

                                             Me by some random and awesome display :)

                                                                  A cool building...

                             Tiffany's...one of the most famous jewelry companies in the world (!)

Day 2: Monday~I hung out with my godmother, going first to Chinatown, and then to the largest Macy's ever built (also I think the largest store in the world!)

                                                            NINE STORIES TALL!!

                                                          Their sign on the building :)

                                          Chinatown was filled with little stores like this!!

                                                                and signs like this...
Oh, and we also stopped at a Buddhist temple, just to see what it was like :)

Day 3: Tuesday (my birthday!)
We took the subway to the Bronx to meet an old friend of my moms (who is now a priest) , and see the business he started, called Goods of Conscience.  We went up with my dad's entire class, and overall it was pretty awesome...it was actually someone else's birthday too, so that was fun!  Afterwards, we went o=to a really cool pizza place (Nina, you would have loved it...everyone was speaking Italian :)  **no pictures, sorry!

And still more too come!

~Rachel