spring break tour 2015 - new york city · 2015-11-27 · spring break tour 2015 - new york city kim...
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Spring Break Tour 2015 - New York City Kim Polishuk, Kayla Butler, Levi Detrich, Case Wilson, Olivia Stires, Kacy Redmond, Abby Katje, Claire Sanders, Mrs. Rosemary Redmond, and Mr. Steve Whitener, tour leader
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
Our flight is five hours late leaving San Diego
Arrive Liberty International Airport, shuttle to Hampton Inn Manhattan Times Square South
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
Walk to Grand Central Station. Due to the 6 train line being under repair, we take taxis to worship services at Redeemer
Presbyterian
Tour the Frick Collection, art gallery in a Gilded Age Mansion
Walk up Fifth Avenue to visit the Guggenheim
Then on to explore the largest museum in the Western
Hemisphere, The Met
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Stopping briefly to view an authentic Egyptian obelisk (1450 B.C.), we walk across Central Park to Strawberry Fields and
the Dakota Building (John Lennon sites)
Dinner in TriBeCa @ AOA Dessert @
MONDAY, MARCH 30
Hike 1.5 miles of The High Line
See a commercial being filmed on Gansevoort Street
911 Memorial and Museum
Afternoon in Brooklyn: Lunch at Grimaldi's Pizzeria then walk back to Manhattan over the historic Brooklyn Bridge
Dinner @
Take a roundtrip ride on the Roosevelt Island Tramway
Dessert @
TUESDAY, MARCH 31
Castle Clinton Ferry ride to Ellis Island National Monument
and we climb up into the crown of the Statue of Liberty
Lunch at historic Fraunces Tavern, built 1719 & upstairs, the Sons of the Revolution Museum (where General George
Washington said goodbye to his troops)
Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange, Federal Hall (where Geo Washington was inaugurated president),
charging bull statue
Dinner @
We attend the new musical with Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth, On the 20th Century. After the show, we met
Kristin and she signs our playbills
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
Explore the American Museum of Natural History, the
largest natural history museum in the world
Lunch at Katz’ Jewish Delicatessen (since 1888)
Visit the restored apartments of the GermanJewish
Gumpertz family of 1873, and the ItalianCatholic Baldizzi family, who lived through the Great Depression, at the Lower
Eastside
Dinner @
Orchestra seats for the amazing Les Mis
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Take in the open air views 70 floors on top of 30 Rockefeller
Center, Top of the Rock
While in Rockefeller Center we see the Today Show taping with Matt Lauer and Ernie Hudson, from the Ghostbusters movie
A look around Lincoln Center and
lunch on 72nd Street, on the West Side
A little shopping @
back in San Diego @ 8:01PM California Time
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