City Island Southern Girl: Our Trip to Manhattan on March 17, 2010 Part 1

Today we went to Manhattan. By bus or train we live about an hour or an hour and a half from Manhattan, depending on which part. We don't get to go alot. We probably go about 4 or 5 times a year, if even that much.

Before we got to go, we had to walk to the post office and mail a couple of items. I will show you some interesting things on the way to the post office.

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The next two photos are of a small park one block from my apartment. It's really nice and quiet there. I like to go there sometimes and just watch the birds.

This is an old store along the way. It is full of things. He always has something different there - mostly salvaged nautical parts.

This is Morris the cat. I believe he is the oldest cat on the island. Such a sweetie he is!

We made it to the post office we use.

Straight across from the post office is the school. They have this replica of a ship in front. I love ships, so took it's picture.

At this point we got on the bus and went to the train station to transfer to this bus.

We got on at 34th Street, not too far down from the Empire State Building. When I moved here five years ago, I actually went up to the observation deck.

I thought that the next photos are kind of interesting. I took them in the windows of a fossil shop.

Here is a close up of that fish.

This one is kind of hard to see, as everything was reflecting in the window.

These are gems.

These are what are called, I believe, siphons (sea worms that live in long tubes), and snails.

And this is a spider and some insects, which he had preserved.

This is the famous Macy's Store.

I just took the next few pictures to show how crowded it was. Manhattan is crowded any day, but going on St. Patrick's Day (we don't celebrate it) makes it even worse.