Central Park is for Lovers!

OK not really, I just wanted you to start reading :)

 

 I spent Saturday night in Secaucus, NJ.   I liked the location.  There was a bus stop right across the street from my hotel and it was only a 10-minute bus ride into NYC.  I checked out of my hotel on Sunday morning and took the bus into the city.

I walked from the Bus Station to my friend's hotel.  It was a little farther than I anticipated and did not leave myself a lot of time to get from the station to the hotel before I was supposed to meet Liz to go to church, so I was rushing.  (I did stop to take this picture of the Chrysler Building though.)

I made it to the hotel.  Although I rushed to get there on time, we ended up waiting about 20 minutes for some other people to get ready to come to church with us.

I was a little frustrated at this point, for more reasons than one.  But thankfully we made it to church only about 2 minutes late.  

This is where we went to church! (Obviously not the part of the temple:)  Sacrament meeting was amazing! And the singing group Vocal Point from BYU was visiting and they sang the musical number and it was pure awesomeness!

After church, we headed to Times Square to meet some more of the dancing group.  Liz and I waiting for the subway.

Tara, Liz and I on the subway to Times Square.  (Tara is a dancer from Liz's school that was at church with us)

We made it to Times Square.  It was my second time there on this trip and I must say it is different seeing it in the sunshine than it is in the rain.  It's a pretty cool place!  We ate lunch here and then I parted ways with Liz and Karyn and their group.  It was good to see them, although I did not get to spend a lot of time with them.

And I might have stopped at the Hershey Store and bought some chocolate after I parted ways with them :)

Since I ended up not spending the day with Liz and Karyn as I thought I would, I decided to walk from Times Square to Central Park. It was a beautiful day!  The sun was shining and the temperature was cool.

I liked the contrast of the tall new glass building next to the short old brick buildings. 

Here are the brick buildings up close with their fire escapes and shops below!

This is Columbus Circle!

I ran into the NYC Ballet and Opera House and I think this was part of it.  I liked the architecture of this building.  I went inside this building because I thought it was cool and there was a museum in there, but it was closed on Sundays.  It's OK though.  I just kept on walking! 

I saw the temple again. I didn't really have time to take pictures of the temple before, so I was happy to see it again :)  Even though I had seen pictures of the temple before, I didn't realize how big it really was.  I mean it's not huge, but it's bigger than I thought.

I went to Central Park.  Here it is (at least part of it)!  I loved this place! It's so beautiful! I loved seeing the big green field with the cityscape in the background.

There were so many people there enjoying the beautiful Sunday afternoon!

More Central Park scenery!

Isn't it beautiful?!

I liked this picture with the twin buildings in the background!

Look at those awesome trees over the trail!

On the trail of awesome trees :)

Families and friends basking in the sunlight!

As I was walking on the trail of awesome trees, I stopped and listened to this little musical group play!
They were pretty good!  I enjoyed it!

 

 Some more beautiful scenery in Central Park!

After Central Park, It was time for me to head back to catch my bus to D.C.  I walked towards Penn Station, where my bus was going to be. I had a few detours on my way to the bus.  I stopped at  a delicious cupcake place called Crumbs (recommended by Heather).  I got dinner at Subway and I went through Times Square again.

Although things did not turn out the way I expected on Sunday, it was a good day!  I enjoyed the company of my friends, went to church, walked a lot, enjoyed some of God's beautiful creations!