This whole thing started a few months back when my parents asked me where I wanted to go for a vacation this summer. It took me a while to think of a place, but I finally suggested New York City for a couple reasons:
1) I had never been there.
2) Going up north would be a nice break from the Texas heat.
3) It's the last year that the Yankees with be playing in "The House that Ruth Built" before moving to their new stadium.
Unfortunately, the whole family vacation thing fell through, but I still wanted to go, and so did my little brother. So, for the first time, I went on a vacation with just Keith and myself.
We flew into La Guardia Airport in New York City on Friday, July 18. I caught a plane from Waco to Houston, and then Keith and I got on the same flight from Houston to New York. Much to my surprise, we didn't have any problems at all getting to New York. Our flight arrived on schedule at 4:30, which gave us plenty of time to get to the hotel and take care of some other stuff before it got too late. Not too sure about how to get from La Guardia to the hotel on mass transit, we decided to splurge and pay for a taxi, which was well worth it. Our cab driver (no, we didn't get on Cash Cab) took us from the airport to the front door of the Eastgate Tower Suite Hotel in less than 30 minutes, and we didn't have to think twice about how to get there (that and we found out later that there isn't an easy way to get from La Guardia to Manhattan on the subway). It was a great way to start a vacation.
The hotel room (which I found on Hotels.com when they had a 30% off deal going on) was surprisingly nice and very spacious for a hotel in Manhattan.
We also had a pretty nice view from our room on the 12th floor.
After settling into our room, we went over to Grand Central Station to scope it out and buy our subway passes. The Grand Central was the closest subway station to our hotel (3 blocks up and 3 blocks over). Since we got there in the middle of Friday evening rush hour, the place was really busy with people trying to catch their trains out of town.
Since we were both pretty hungry, we decided to check out the dining concourse at the station. After walking the circuit, we settle on Junior's. I had a deli turkey sandwich that was a couple inches thick, and Keith had a burger. Since Junior's is famous for their cheesecake, we ordered ourselves a piece for dessert. Mmm, strawberry shortcake cheesecake...
While walking back to the hotel after dinner, we were looking at all of the skyscrapers around us, and noticed that we were walking by the Chrysler Building.
This became a familiar sight as we walked from the hotel to Grand Central Station and back everyday. After arriving back at the hotel, we decided to just hang out in the room for the rest of the evening to recuperate from our long day of traveling and to rest up for all we had planned on Saturday.
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