The Best of New York City
We had a few days left before we flew back home, so we decided to see the sights of the best city in the world – New York.
If you haven’t been to New York, here are some handy tips about seeing New York. View New York from the top of buildings. We recommend the top of the Rockefeller located on 49th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue. Go ahead a do the usual sights, such as Times Square, but be prepared that it is a very busy and do go see the Statue of Liberty (that’s busy too).
Now, for the places that are off the beaten track, we recommend the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, it has the best Japanese garden besides Japan, and it also is close to Prospect Park, which is Brooklyn’s answer to Central Park. Of course, the best time to see these sites is either in Spring or in Autumn, any other time it will be horribly hot or terribly cold.
New York City has the best restaurants you could ever hope for, we found a place in the Tribeca neighborhood called Ninja, it’s very expensive, but we really do highly recommend it. The cuisine is Japanese and the food is excellent. For something less expensive, we found a place in Queens called Astoria. This restaurant was great for being in a melting pot culturally speaking and the food is fantastic.
For great places to have a drink, we went outside Manhattan into Brooklyn’s neighborhood of Williamsburg. You can get there by jumping on the L train and get off at the first stop in Brooklyn called Bedford Avenue. There are literally hundreds of really cool bars, so the only problem you’ll have is choosing which one to go into.
If you’re in New York on a Wednesday evening, check out the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Wednesday night is amateur night at the Apollo. It’s so fun and fantastic. You can get drinks there and boo off anyone you don’t like.
New York is really the best city in the whole world and it has something to offer any day of the week and at any time of the day. It’s definitely a must for any serious traveler
06.26.09Outdoor living
As soon as the temperatures hit sixty degrees in Ohio we had our shorts on and we were ready for summer. Sometimes we would get our hopes up too soon and Mother Nature would be playing a trick on us and go right back into winter.
That is what makes summer so much fun in the Midwest, or anywhere where there is a definite winter, you live outside the entire summer because you’re just not sure when the next time you will get to be outside. So summer means grilling out and having parties.
Having a grill is one of the best ways to cook. Even when it was snowing my dad would fire up the grill because he wanted a steak so much. So despite the fact that we had to cover ourselves in bug spray we were going to move the party outdoors.
I became totally spoiled when my parents moved the family out to Arizona. You could grill all year long and the magic of the summer season changed. Mostly because it was a little bit warmer than back in Ohio.
Out here in Arizona people are lucky enough to get to live outdoors almost year round. They can grill outside and have parties while the rest of the country is out shoveling snow and making snowmen. After being out here, you start seeing that people have these massive outdoor kitchens in their backyard almost more extravagant than the ones in their house.
You can see some on the website of Steven Barbarich, chooseoutdoorkitchens.com. It’s really amazing what they can do now. It’s a far cry from the plain old charcoal grills of the past.
No matter where you live it seems grilling is a part of the American family and life. There is just something about grilling out with your family, no matter what time of year it is.
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