Kicking off the 2015 with a new blog and travels!
Cierra was out for winter break and I ended up with the first week of Jan as vacation so we decided to take off~
Planned a trip to visit my mom in St. Thomas, but decided to make a side trip first to New York!! We have never seen the Rockefeller tree, gone to the top of the Rock or seen the city all lit up. Phoenix to JFK was to be our first flight. We flew in Jan 3 and were set to fly out JFK to St. Thomas 8am Jan 4 so not much time but what the heck.
**Now here is lessons learned while traveling~ JFK has a 24 hr bag check in terminal 4 down by baggage claim, for min. cost they will keep them for you so you aren't carrying everything around the city. Love that! (Admirals club and other terminals bag checks are open only certain hrs)
Terminal 4 also has a cab line that seems to move pretty fast - but according to local friends met on the flight ask the cab driver ahead of time how much...should be around $50 or so.
Since we were limited on time we opted for the cab this time around and made our way to Rockefeller Center. Total for us was $60.
Stepping out of the cab at night in the middle of Rockefeller Center during the holidays is magical. Rainy & cold, but once you become immersed you don't even notice!
We were taking pictures and wandering - Total Tourists!
Made our way over to Rockefeller Center to go to "the top of the rock" so determined that when they said visibility was limited we didn't care....visibility wasn't just limited they were being nice, visibility was none! We were lucky to see the observation deck floor feet from the door. We bought tickets ahead of the time here Top of The Rock tic sales
Good thing about being on the top of the rock during no visibility is there are no crowds and nobody walking through your pictures!! One other person was there the whole time we were! Thanks for taking our photo Mr. fellow die hard tourist!
Made our way back down and ran into a one of New York's finest who said yes when Cierra asked him to take our picture we couldn't leave without a picture with him ~
Such fun working our way around Rockefeller Center
Decided to head over to Times Square as it is only a short walk
Thank you Starbucks for the hot chocolate to keep us warm!
About 1am we called it a night and walked into the Marriott Time Square parking area to see about a cab. Thank you for finding us a black towncar for the same price as a cab to comfortably get us back to JFK. $60 back to JFK.
We picked up our backpacks and since we couldn't get through security until 3:30-4:00am found a "quiet corner" to lounge in.
**Next lesson learned - when you stop moving around and early am hrs set in it is cold in an airport. The warmest place is standing next to the air dryer in the restroom.
Cierra fell asleep and even though this picture looks like I have been traveling way more than 1 day I feel the need to post to show friends & family that yes if I can do it you can do it ~ overnight in the airport is doable! Entertaining myself learning to work my new selfie pole Craig bought me for Christmas (like this selfie pole)
End of our New York adventure as we head through security to catch our St. Thomas flight we look back and see this ~
Good Bye New York it has been GREAT!
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