New York Adventure - Part 4

I know, it just keeps being confusing. Though this is Part 4, it is really journaling Day 3.

Now I know what you are thinking, if you are paying attention you will have noticed that the first three parts were written almost three years ago. Well, I decided to go ahead and finish the adventure, you couldn't call me a quitter (though I have quit every diet I've ever started, but I digress)

Day 3 was easily the most relaxing day of the New York trip. After a realizing how long it took to get anywhere or do anything on Day 2 (I had so much more planned than what actually happened), we decided to do a Hop-On Hop-Off bus tour of the city. We bought tickets for two buses, one going uptown, one going downtown (cue the "we're going downtown" song by Majical Cloudz that will be stuck in your head all day. You are welcome.)

We hung out at Bryant Park for a while as we waited for our bus and this was where we got the first taste of a New York City street vendor hot dog.

Needless to say, we fell in love.

Waiting for the bus we met a lot of people from all over the world. Oddly, they all seemed to know right away that we were from Texas.

We met this couple from Australia that was doing a backpacking tour around the world, and this was their first stop in the United States. They had been away from home traveling for about six months at the time. I remember thinking that it was crazy, and I would never want to be away from my bed for that long. A week is long enough for me!

Once we were on the bus, not much happened. We listened to the audio tour and took pictures of buildings it told us were famous, but that we had never heard of, and we got sunburned. The best part of the bus tour was actually when we went up to the Upper East Side and drove right along Central Park. I wanted so much to hop off and explore the park, but I was sore and tired from all of the walking the day before and the sunburn was starting to really drain my energy.

That is really all that happened on Day 3. It was really low-key and honestly, it was exactly what I needed in the middle of the trip. Day 4 was much more exciting, so stay tuned!

We managed to see a real-life Banksy by the Hi-Five!

The Hi-Five. Where they turned old train tracks into a park. 

Seeing Trump Towers from the Bus. If I only knew then what was to come.

I took this picture because it looked like a pile of Silver Poop. Yes, I'm that person.