Saturday, September 27, 2008

Day Twelve of Our HIstoric East Coast Tour

Friday Sept 26th: Another big day in down town NY. Well we woke up to pouring rain at 3:30 am guess the storm in Florida was heading our way. Well this was a big day for touring we were to go to NBC studios, Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller center and go to the Top of The Rock and then to a dinner cruise. The bus picked us up at 8:30 and we headed into NY. Now traffic on a normal day is total grid lock and now we have pouring rain on top of that. We also have to be dressed up for the dinner cruise. We arrived back to the RV park at 11:00 pm.


We were dropped off at NBC studios and had a tour through the areas of where the shows are filmed. Totally shocking to see that it is not as fancy as it looks when we are watching it on tv. We toured where the news is done and where Brian Williams reports from. It was about 2 hours long very interesting. We also seen a video back in time when tv first began.


The Radio City Music Hall is accross the street so we wondered through the traffic accross the street and had a two hour tour of where they do musical concerts that we see on tv. Very large and Jerry and many other men had their picture taken with one of the Rocketts which is the dancers that perform in this building.


Next we wondered back over accross the street and next to NBC studios in the Rockefella center. No filming was being done outside because of the rain. At the top of this building it is called the Top Of The Rock. It is 850 feet above sea level. It is over 70 years ago. We went up 76 stories to the observation deck but of course could not see anything but fog. So we had to settle for the post cards of what we were suppose to be able to see.



Then we at 6:30 we got on board this beutiful dinner vessel and had a 4 hour tour of the hudson bay around NY. The weather had cleared a little bit but one can only imagine what it would have been like if it was clear night.






The dinner vessel took us by the Statue of Liberty and this is what it looks like at night. The most awsome sight day or night.

We were all pretty exhausted betime we got home because we had been on our feet most of the day walking around but get to sit during our dinner cruise.

We have a lot of pictures, postcards, and material to read on all the sights we toured.

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