In the summer of 2012, I went to New York City, the most popular and biggest city in the U.S..
First, I saw this street performer blowing the biggest bubbles I have ever seen! I wonder how he does it without them popping.
Usually I don't like graffiti, but in New York City it's just so colorful! I think it's sort of cool looking.
Here's one of my favorites; the Empire State Building! It's the second tallest building in New York City! The One World Trading Center is the tallest, but only by 1 floor. It has 104 while the Empire State Building has 103.
This is me at the F.A.O. Schwarz toy store. I liked the piano the best.
I went to lots of museums on this trip. Here I am with an Easter Island head and prehistoric fossils and skeletons.
I loved visiting Brooklyn Bridge. It is one of the oldest bridges in America! I learned that it took 14 years to build! That's like it started when someone was 20 and they were 34 when it was done!
Here I am at another museum. The Guggenheim museum of modern art. There were some pretty interesting works of art here. I loved the architecture with all the different floors.
The famous Staten Island Ferry was amazing to see. It's hard to just guess how many people are on it!
Another temple! The Manhattan LDS Temple is one of my favorites because I don't think I would have guessed it was a temple, not a skyscraper if it weren't for the angel statue on top and if I didn't already know!
Here I am, over New York City. The trees and greenery below is Central Park.
Here is a Manhattan train station! It has my favorite architecture design on this trip!
I liked visiting this aircraft museum and seeing different spaceships and aircraft. I especially thought it was cool to be inside the space pod.
Nearing the end of my day, I visited the Statue of Liberty on Staten Island.
It was a gift from France celebrating the friendship acquired with America during the Revolutionary War and was supposed to be dedicated in 1876, 100 years since the Deceleration of Independence was signed. Unfortunately, neither France nor America could afford to build it at the time, so the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886 instead. It was originally shiny copper, but that was almost 200 years ago. Age has turned the copper green.
And finally, here I am against the New York night sky, though it's far from dark due to the many lights.
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