NYC Day 3

Our last day in NYC we decided to take it easy. Our feet were in so much pain that I don't think they could have endured another full day of walking. After breakfast we took the tour bus and toured Uptown Manhattan. It was definitely a different scene the lower half of Manhattan.

Uptown consisted of fancy apartment buildings and were more of the wealthy people live. We did get to see the apartment building where John Lennon was shot. His widow Yoko Ono still lives in the same building.

We also took a tour through Harlem. It was very interesting to see. Actually Harlem has changed a lot over the past couple of years. It is quite a different neighborhood now. A lot of the tenants didn't have rent control on their apartments and when their leases were up the landlord's started raising rents. It forced a lot of the low income people to move out of the area. It does not have near the crime or drugs that it used to.

Here is the fire station in Harlem.

This is the famous Apollo Theatre.

After we finished touring Uptown Manhattan we took a tour of Brooklyn. There really wasn't much to see in Brooklyn. We did get some neat pictures of the Manhattan sky line.

We also visited the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. It was really good ice cream. It was very creamy. It is in an old light house right on the water.

When the tour was over we headed back to Times Square and ate at a pizza place for dinner. Then we went back to our hotel because we had to leave for the airport the next morning at 5:30 am.

We had a fabulous time and I already want to go back.

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We had a very relaxing weekend and didn't do much. I so do not want to go back to work tomorrow. We did get a new lap top this weekend which I am very excited about. The computer we had was mine from college. It still works fine but I have been wanting a lap top forever. It is taking some getting used to.

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!