We spent the weekend at my cousin Daniel's place, hanging out with him and his bro Joe! 
We had a great time, but it went by to fast! Talk about a New York minute! I had to keep 
up just to not get hit by traffic. If you want to make it across the street, you better be off the curb before the light turns green! Which was not easy for me, of course, Brent
went right with it-no problem stepping out in front of taxi's. I had to hurry my short little legs just to keep up with him and Dan! We tried to take in all the sites, the building were huge! Trying to figure out the subway system wasn't too bad- Dan
started
quizzing me to see if I knew the next stop, he was impressed, not realizing I had studied the whole map!On Friday, Daniel took us to a place called HK for lunch, great food- We ate "Hummus & something else" served with pita bread. After all the walking around Manhattan & Times Square, we were tired and took a nap to restore our energy for that night! Dan invited us to his friend Andy's
which was on the 46th floor for a late dinner- 11pm! Daniel made a delicious Chinese dish while we enjoyed seeing the entire city from their full window lined apt. The view was amazing & breath taking to say the least! Joe showed up with his girlfriend Maria and we had so much fun late into the morning! Saturday turned out to be the longest day I have ever experienced on a trip! We hopped on the subway to Ground Zero-building the Freedom Tower, saw the Statue of Liberty from afar(ferry line was 3 hrs long), went to Battery Park, 
then we walked all over the city & Central Park, met Joe for lunch in the "Upper East Side",
shopped on 5th Avenue and then saw a 3 hr show on Broadway called August:Osage County! Man, Brent and I had never walked so much in our lives! My legs would hardly work on Sunday! But, that didn't matter- We started off having "a slice" for breakfast (that's pizza for the lay-man), then visiting a flea market of antiques, before meeting up with Joe & Maria for lunch-well actually tiramisu & chocolate mousse. Great idea, Maria! (Our trip was mainly focused on eating as you can tell-but with all that walking who wouldn't work up an appetite?) We spent the rest of our afternoon shopping in China Town and Little Italy, where of course we had lunch again! Man what a weekend! Brent & I ended up taking the late train back to the airport, and getting home through the rain at 2am Monday morning. Needless to say showing up at school at 8am was rather difficult! But, boy did we have a blast!
