Sunrise in New York City

I used to think my passion of nature was sunsets...

After this spectacular view as we rode the Air Train from JFK to the Long Island Railroad I am not so sure it is not a dead on tie! WOW! What a sunrise!!

Patty's Daughter and boyfriend

It made me so happy!

God truly is the best painter there is!

In the concourse of Penn Station after our ride on the Long Island Railroad

Welcome to the streets of New York City!

What a beautiful day!!!!!!!!

We arrived in Penn Station near Madison Square Gardens about 7 am-ish. We found our hotel a block or so away from the station (which BTW the blocks are more like 4-5 of our blocks! LOL) and we asked if we could drop off our backpacks. Because Patty was a Flight Crew person from Jet Blue they let us actually check in! And they sent us to go have breakfast...even though we would get the buffet breakfast the next morning for free too! It was perfect! (yeah! for small blessings! one less cost for my trip!)

We dropped off our stuff, ate breakfast and then the young'uns headed out to explore! I took this picture of Patty's stuff...mostly because the poor girl had packed a baglike backpack with a pull tie on top...no pockets... and it was NOT user friendly! Every time she needed anything she practically had to unpack the entire thing! It was hoot! We giggled a lot about her bag!

We older less spry adventurers headed up to the room after breakfast! LOL! If we were going to be given a chance to rest before playing we were going to take it! And since neither of us could sleep on the plane (unlike the young'uns) we crashed for 4 hours! *blush* Yes. You read that right. I flew to New York to take a nap! *grin* GO ME!

We got up about 11:30am (NY time) and called the temple to see if we could come, and if we could come in street clothes.

Of course they said yes... in fact she practically begged us to come! So off we headed... onto the streets of New York City in warmer clothes than church clothes... and down into the subways below!! What an adventure!