Our Trip to NY - Part 2

On to the rest of the trip. Okay, I last left you on Thursday night when we went to "Young Frankenstein." Continuing on to Friday..

Friday we decided it would be a good idea to check out Central Park, which happened to be 2 streets away from our hotel (Thank you Lindsay!). We woke up and had a wonderful breakfast at a diner nearby. I had wheat pancakes, Nate the french toast (do you guys even care to hear those details, oh well). With full, happy bellies we headed to Central Park. A note about central park if you've never been, IT IS HUGE! There is a road that runs the perimeter of the park - it's 6 miles!



We just walked around awhile, seeing the many things the park has to offer. Nate came up with the idea of renting one of the row boats for an hour. Best $12 we spent. We had such a good time. I'm pretty sure we didn't stop laughing once.



ESPECIALLY when it was my turn to row. Nate even took video (didn't want to bore you with it, just a lot of me rowing and Nate laughing). Let's just say it was my first time rowing and it didn't exactly come naturally.



From there we headed to the Natural History Museum- also HUGE! We saw the 4 shows/exhibits that were showing at the time. The first one we went through was the butterflies exhibit. I don't know what happened, I went picture-crazy! I took so many in fact, they probably took up 20% of our trip's photos. Maybe because I wasn't expecting to basically be walking through Butterfly World with live ones just going on with their business. This one, in fact, used me as a taxi and walked with me through the exhibit...



And this one... HUGE, right? Did you know butterflies came in that size?



After the Museum we headed to the Lower East Side to have dinner with my cousin Marty and his wife Mary Beth. Where are THOSE pictures you ask? Well there was 1 and it wasn't great... but those butterflies! I'm a nerd.

Saturday we had plans to have brunch with one of my childhood friends, Lana. She lives in Brooklyn so we thought it would be a great opportunity to see New York from outside the city and also to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.



The bridge was an amazing structure! It took around 13 years to build and has definitely stood the test of time. I recommend taking the walk if you are heading to NY any time soon.



This is a picture from the bridge, the Empire State Building is the dominate building you see...



For our final dinner in NY, we went to Churascaria Plataforma (http://www.churrascariaplataforma.com/) it is a rodizio that my Dad suggested we go check out. For those of you who don't know what a rodizio is (I didn't before this), it is a Brazilian Steakhouse that is all you can eat meat. The servers come around with different meats from rib eye to sausage to bacon wrapped turkey. It was amazing! Nate and I both agreed the rib eye was the best. Best rib eye we have EVER tasted. This is Nate taking a piece of sirloin, I believe.



haha. After I took that pic Nate said, "I know I looked like a TOOL" haha. Nate was a happy boy at Plataforma..



After that we hung out quickly with another childhood friend of mine, Serena. And then it was time for sleep. I don't know if you can tell, but this trip was action packed. Nate and I were go-go-go the whole time and I'm so thankful we were :)

Sunday we were sad to leave...



We had such a great time. Nate was my perfect traveling partner - he can even deal with a grumpy Nikki when I get hungry. Lo, Kerry, Linds I know you know what I'm talking about :)

The only thing left to say is thank you to Nate for being so wonderful and I can't wait to go back!