Up until now, (9:08am), I've been looking at maps of Philly to New York, and comparing it to our drive from last night all the way to Morgantown. It'll take about ~2 hours to get to NYC. It is right in the middle of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Hmm!
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Come to found out, we were in Manhattan. The entire island was Manhattan, we were on the south end of it, from Central Park to Allen Street, China Town.
At 10:15AM, we left and had just gotten on the North/South subway. We were trying to catch the 10:30AM bus in China Town, but it didn't happen. I believe we had to transfer to a second subway, (T shaped in Philly). We got off the subway at 10:41AM, so we went for the 11AM bus. The buses are owned by China Town and operate between China Town in all the major cities, like NY, PA, DC, NJ, etc..
We got on the bus around 10:45AM. LOTS of chinese people going to NY today! There was a sign inside the small building where we changed our ticket times that said "We are not response for any belonging." Hahaha. We left shortly after, as once they fill up, they leave. No sense in sitting around for nothing! Jimmy and I talked about school, Philly, Mom, New Jersey, Miami, everything. Once we got an hour away, the little girl in front of us began crying. WOOP WOOP! (11:50AM)
I could see the Empire State building at 12:16PM. Boyyy did it look small from where we were. 4 minutes later, I could see the Statue of Liberty. It was a LOT smaller than I imagined. At 12:29PM, we were inside the tunnel going from NJ to NY. We arrived in Chinatown, New York at 12:47PM. After we unloaded and walked around, we found a subway and looked for a map around 1:27PM. We were going the wrong way, so we turned around.
At 1:33PM, we stopped at a brick oven pizza place to warm up and look at the map. I ordered a Baked Ziti Pizza and Hawaiian Punch. Man was my face NUMB. It was so numb, my BRAIN HURT.
We left for ground zero at 1:51PM. We finally found ground zero at 2:25PM.
Let me describe the weather. It was VERY windy. VERY VERY windy, and it was snowing. Snow flurries, if you will. We were walking in the direction of the wind most of the time, and all the snow was blowing in my face, my eyes, my mouth. It was FREEZING. I couldn't feel my face at all. 
While at ground zero, we went inside a makeshift museum memorial, $5 with a student ID. It was pretty sad, lots of stuff recovered. As we walked downstairs, there were a bunch of cranes that were hanging down above the stairs. The downstairs room was mostly letters and stuff, there was a table and kleenex for people to write what they thought about the place and 911 in general. The note in the picture is easier to read when it is bigger, but it reads, "After I heard how important the twin towers were it made me even more angryer then before. I just want to do something about it! But what?" It was written by a kid.Then, we caught the subway, hoping to find Central Park. There was an acapella group that came through singing a lion king song, and then some other usual acapella song. I wanted to film, but we didn't give them money so it would probably not have been appreciated. Plus, everyone was pretty pissed. This guy across from us was mad, and he started to pray.
Speaking of the subway, sometime before, some guy was announcing that he was collecting money for a good cause, or food. He said if you are attractive, he was also accepting hugs, haha. Also, there was a point when someone got on the subway, then when the doors were closing, decided to get off, and fought the door 3-4 times to pull them open. "PLEASE stand clear of the doors," the intercom would announce. "People these days," a guy leaning against the door said.
We were on the subway, almost to Central Park at 3:45PM. We had just passed Park Ave. (on the Monopoly board, a pretty famous street) at 3:53PM.
While at Central Park, I saw the horse carriages and whatnot. There is an Apple store that is made of purely glass, and you walk inside, then you have to take the stairs or elevator to actually go underground to the store. Behind that was one of the famous toy stores. We went inside Central Park first, and took a few pictures of the frozen lake and whatnot. 
Then, we headed back over and we stopped in the toy store. There were some really neat things in there. I saw Rockefeller Plaza at 4:54PM, and we stopped at a Starbucks as we were on our way to Times Square. Arrived at Times Square at 5:18PM. It was AWESOME to see at night, very beautiful. "The lights will inspire you." After getting a few pictures, we decided to head over to the M&M store, which we changed our minds and went into the Reese's store to get something for Trinity. Considering it was nothing special but Reese's candy, very overpriced, we didn't get anything. Although, there were some shirts, hoodies, and cups and the usual. But who want's a Reese's souvenir?We walked around a bit, got some nuts, ended up walking around the block, and I bought I <3 NY t-shirts. We stopped at Ruby Tuesday in Times Square at 5:43PM. Everything was $20+. I ordered the Chicken Finger appetizer for $9.99. It wasn't very tasty. Oh well. We left there at 6:16PM.
We caught a subway train to the bus at 6:28PM. Inside the subway station, as we were heading up to the streets for the bus, there was a chinese lady singing absolutely terrible music, along with two friends that were playing instruments. I have a video of it. While finding the bus, the chinese guys were helping us find our bus, but it took 3 different people to finally find the right one. They are nice and helpful, but very rushed people. Once we found the bus, the lady was yelling in chinese at the people, then saying "this bus this bus! Then telling them to get off the road while the bus parallel parked. Then she was like, get on the back bus! (the bus that was pulling up beside it) then everyone ran to it, started loading the bottom of it, then she started closing it and it took off. Meanwhile, everyone is yelling in chinese and it was absolutely insane, but very funny to me. The bus took off, only to park. So then the crowd simultaneously runs to it again. Again, very funny, and then as we are all trying to get on the bus, she's practically pushing us and saying "go! go! quick! get on the bus!" The "MORE PEOPLE, MORE PEOPLE!" theory was proven correct. MAN she was crowding us and rushing us. VERY funny to me. We got on the bus to head out to Philly at 7:12PM. I fell asleep for an hour, and woke up the the same two black guys behind me talking, while everyone was sleeping. They talked about Young Jeezy, some rapper artist friend, facebook, myspace nicknames, twitter, and all sorts of things. Someone started to smell like pure alcohol, they must've been really drunk. We arrived in Chinatown in Philly at 9:08PM. After catching two subway trains back home, we arrived at 9:52PM.
10:25PM
Philly: 26 degrees, feels like 13 degreees. 16MPH winds. Cloudy.
Mburg: 32 degrees, feels like 27 degrees. 5MPH winds. Fair.
NYC: 19 degrees, feels like 5 degrees. 16MPH winds. Cloudy.
I took a break after posting that, then Jimmy and Trinity took down the tree to take outside. Well, before all that, I took a few pictures of them and the tree with Sophia and her Santa suit. Anywho, I vacuumed the needles and the rest of the living room and here I am, finishing my post for today. There's too much detail to cover, but I still want to do this, no point in quitting now. It'll make for good memories later. It's now 11:48PM. I'm going to browse the interwebs, watch TV, chill out, get ready to shower, and the rest of the works.
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I've basically hung out since last post. Trinity and Jimmy sat on the couch and he went through some old pictures on his laptop. Shortly before 2AM I got in the shower, and here I am, at 2:19AM. Hittin' the hay at 3:33am.
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