Halloooo, ich lebe auch noch.

Irgendwie vergisst man hier ab und zu einfach dann doch mal wieder den Laptop aufzumachen und mal wieder einen kleinen Text zu verfassen über das, was hier alles so passiert ist.

Es ist viel passiert in letzter Zeit. Letztes Wochenende war gerade Ostern. Natürlich war auch bei uns der Osterhase da und hat seine bunten OStereier versteckt, die die Kiddies dann mit purer Freude gesucht haben. Jetzt ist gerade spring break, die Kinder haben 1 Woche keine Schule, Das heißt für mich ich kann endlich mal weider so richtig ausschlafen - nicht nur am Wochenende sondern auch mal unter der Woche.

Das Wetter wird jetz auch endlich mal etwas besser. Den letzten Schnee gab es vor ein paar Wochen. Jetzt ist der Frühling endlich da. Und danach kommt endlich der Sommer.

Thursday in NYC

 Today it was freezing cold but we still had a great day in NYC. It was around -12°C.

Really really cold. I took the train to the city and then I met my brother at Penn Station. We didn´t really had a plan what we want to do today, but finally we decided to take the subway to Brooklyn and walk over the Broklyn Bridge. It was so cold and windy on the bridge, but the view was totally worth it. Afterwards we wanted to have dinner in a nice restaurant in Little Italy. It was really hard to choose between all the restaurants because there were so many. But in the end I think we made the right choice and we both really enjoyed our italian food.  

 

Then we had the great idea to go to the NY aquarium which is in Brooklyn on Coney Island. So we took the subway for a 40 min ride. But when we finally arrived at the aquarium we found out that the aquarium will close in 5 min. (It was already 4:30). Now we know it´s always better to check the opening times before you go somewhere. So we had to do something else. We decided to go to the beach. It was nice - but really cold. And there was lierally no one else here - except a few crazy people who had to go for a walk with their dogs. I´m pretty sure in summer this place here is full of people. So I think i will defenitely come back in the summer times.

Then we went to the next subway station and drove back to Manhatten (for around 40 min ...).

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 It was still freezing cold. So we just wanted to go somewhere warm. We still had two hours left till the basketball game starts. So we decided to go to see the movie "Selma". The movie theater at Time Squares is crazy. I don´t know how many floors it has. But defentiely mor than usually. After we´ve bought our tickets it took us around 20 min just to get to the movie. The movie was pretty good. But we couldn´t finish it because we had to leave earlier to be on time for the basketballd game at Madison Square Garden.

The basketball game was really cool. The Madison Square Garden is so big. We didn´t had the best seats. But we still had a great view.

Cultural Day

Starting the day with a NYC-bagel is always a great idea.

Zucker´s Lextington Ave

After breakfast we decided to visit the Guggenheim Museum 

which is located next to the Central Park.

Guggenheim Museum

Snowy New York city

Central Park

The end of our day was then the broadway musical "The Lion King". That was so amazing.

The theater was right at the Time Square. After the show our last stop before we returned to our hotel was the Time Square. It was around 11pm and it felt like it´s just daytime. Pretty amazing.

New York City Sight: Seeing with my family

Our hotel was near Grand Central. That was quite good so we only had to walk around 5 minutes to Grand Central and then we could take the subway to whereever we wanted to go.

 Today we went to Lower Manhatten where the Financal District. We also visited the Trinity Chruch.

 Then we went to the Battery Park. It´s a really nice park and it´s definetly worth a visit.

 Then we took the Staten Island Ferry which is for free. During the ferry ride we passed the Statue of Liberty. And when we arrived on Staten Island we had a great view of the skyline of Manhatten.

Rockerfeller Center

If you´re visitng New York City you have to go to the Rockerfeller Center and enjoy the beautiful and amazing view over Manhatten and the Central Park. It´s just amazing how big this city really is. We were lucky becuase the weather was pretty good today. The view was amazing!

 

Every year a huge christmas tree is put up in front of the Rockerfeller Center. 

There´s also an icerink where you can go ice skating if you have the patience to wait long enough. 

The amazing view over Manhatten with the Empire State bulding

Family-Selfie

View over the Central Park