How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2012)

Trip, Part IV: Monday

This was my first ever time in New York City. Our host had already left for work by the time we were up and about, so we did the normal touristy things, albeit involving walking ten miles through downtown Manhattan, starting from about 72^nd and the river all the way to the Empire State Building with a left turn at the bottom of Central Park. We went up to top of the Empire State Building, where we could see a building that resembled the Stark Tower from “The Avengers” and straight across Manhattan the Chrysler Building, and that’s when I realized that was the battlefield for the movie, right below us. (A building right across the street from the ‘Stark Tower’ has a great big “4” on the side so that must be the headquarters of the Fantastic Four.)

We then hit a couple of stores, including a big CD and music store that Paul always hits when he’s in town, except I didn’t have much in the way of funds so just I looked a lot. We also passed a couple of shawrama places but we’d already had lunch or we might have stopped. (I still haven’t had the chance to try any, alas.)

And then, we drove home. We got out of New York before the traffic started up and were back in Fort Wayne at about 2:00 am, and we immediately crashed (and I’m still a little surprised we didn’t crash before then, given how tired we were from everything we did over the past three days.)