I love these year in reviews – I hope you are enjoying them too! It’s fun to look back at all I did in 2009 (reading, traveling, cooking and entertainment wise that is). Jon and I really had quite a 2009, we jammed more than a few fun activities into the year and I’m sure I didn’t even really capture everything on this blog.
Here’s a recap:
We finally visited The Empire State Building
I went to Puerto Rico with my HC Gals!
We explored Downtown NYC
I spent a lot of time in the Bronx – here, here & here.
My mom and I spent a long weekend in Lancaster, PA.
Jon and I finally ranked the NYC museums (well, the big ones at least).
We walked the High Line Walkway
Jon and I spent 10 days in Munich, Salzburg & Fussen and had the most amazing vacation!!!
We hiked and kayaked in Cold Spring, and, ahem…didn’t get lost!
We visited the Intrepid & the Merchant House.
Shion and I did a Pizza Tour in NYC (and I did a Chelsea Market tour with my brother & Christine that I haven’t even blogged about yet…)
And we took a weekend trip to Annapolis with Jon’s brother Matt and his wife Karen, again, I have yet to blog about (look at all that you have to look forward to)!
That’s just a snip it (OK a very large snip it of all we did in NYC and outside of NYC during 2009)! Not too shabby. So what does 2010 have in store??? Glad you asked. Here is our infamous list of things we want to do in NYC. I’ve crossed of everything that we have done.
1) Go to the top of the Empire State Building
2) Visit Museums (Moma, Frick, Folk Art Museum, the MET, Museum of Natural History, The Museum of the City of New York, Guggenheim, Whitney, Tenement Museum, and the Skyscraper Museum.)
3) See Broadway Shows (I’m crossing this off but we’ll do plenty more of this in 2010).
4) Explore Central Park (run in CP, rent a row boat in CP, take a walking tour of CP, go ice skating in CP, etc)
5) Visit the Botanical Gardens
6) See the Radio City Music Christmas Show!
7) Watch the balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade get blown up!
8) Hike in the Adirondacks
9) Give my DH the true Jersey Shore experience
10) Take the Circle Line tour
11) Bike around the Island of Manhattan
12) Try to see the David Letterman Show
13) Visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
14) Take the Staten Island Ferry
15) Explore all the different neighborhoods of NYC (Brooklyn, Battery Park, UWS, UES, LES, Little Italy, Soho, the Village, Midtown, Hell’s Kitchen, etc)
16) Become more involved in Red Sox nation in NYC
17) Take one of those Red Bus Tours through NYC
18) Go to Medieval Times
19) Go to the Bronx Zoo
20) Visit the Cloisters (that’s for you Mom!)
21) Go to a Little Italy festival
22) Spend some time exploring and appreciating Grand Central Station
23) Visit the Intrepid
24) Carnegie Hall & Deli
25) Top of the Rock Observation Deck
26) Dare I say, New York City for New Year’s Eve….we’ll see!
27) Eat at Peter Luger’s
28) Walk from the top of Manhattan (Marble Hill) to the tip of Manhattan (Wall Street) via Broadway
29) Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb
30) Tour the Wall Street Area (eat at the pub where Washington used to eat, Trinity Church, the bull, etc)
31) Explore Chelsea Market
Of the 31 original things on the list we’ve done a lot and we’ve done a lot that wasn’t on this list. There are only 13 left, so we’ll see if we can knock those out in 2010. In addition, here are some other things that I would like to do:
New List
1) Visit City Island
2) Head over to Roosevelt Island via the trams (eek!)
3) Picnic and bike ride at Governor’s Island
4) Do more walking tours around NYC (led by a guide and self-guided)
5) Visit Roosevelt’s house in midtown
6) Go to the new Citi Field
7) See something at Carnagie Hall
Tour the UN
9) Visit some of the major museums again for the 2nd or 3rd time
10) Van Cortlandt House
I’m sure there is more but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. As for traveling outside of NYC I’m hoping to get out to Oklahoma to visit Amy and her new baby girl. Jon and I will of course plan a trip, but we have yet to decide if we’ll be doing domestic or international travel; that will be determined at a later date. I’m sure there will be other impromptu trips (there always are) but I just can’t see them on the horizon yet. I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in store, good times await for us and for all of you!!!
Post in Comments:
What was your favorite trip or experience from 2009? What trip or experience are you most looking forward to in 2010?
