NYC Birthday Trip Day One!

I turned 30 this month. I wanted to do something big to celebrate my birthday. So a couple of weeks before my birthday three of my friends and I traveled to New York City to celebrate my birthday as well as one of the other girl's birthday. I love NYC! 

We took Friday off of work and took the bus or train up to NYC and got there late Friday morning. 

We went to Union Square and walked through the market there.

We looked at the statues in the park.

We went to Strand bookstore, which is a very large bookstore with tons and tons of used and new books in the area of Union Square.

 We saw the Flat Iron building which as you can tell is very skinny from this angle and gets bigger as you go back like an iron, hence the name.

 I liked this shot Kara took!

I liked this cool sculpture... it's a building in the shape of an O.

We ate at Ellen's Stardust Diner where there are singing waiters. The waiters would take our orders then take turns entertaining us. Apparently some now Broadway stars were discovered while working there.  It was pretty much awesome!

You can see the waiters up on the balcony in the blue and green shirts singing for us.

We went to FAO Schwartz to fill up some time and let's just say it was awesome! (I will do a whole post just on our time there.)

Me, Melinda, Stephanie, and Kara waiting for the train.

We saw First Date with Zachary Levi and Christa Rodriguez and can I just say it was hilarious?! (I will do another post just about the shows we saw while there.)

After the show, Kara, Stephanie and I went and sat on the steps at Times Square. We just sat there and soaked up the scene and talked. I  was amazed by how many people were out at 11 pm.  (I guess there's quite the night life and people coming out of shows.)

On the steps at Times Square.

The end of awesome day one.  Day two coming up next...