NEW YORK - Elima

NEW YORK - DAY 3
Another late start with some Banana Pancakes and Bacon to fill our opu. Guess where we're heading? You'll see : ) Look at the pictures good!

Boarded the Stanton Island Ferry - Bye bye Manhattan

Look who's behind me as I squint to take this picture in the sun.

The STATUE OF LIBERTY finally! She sure is a sight to see! Once we got off the ferry, back on the subway we go. Thinking Soho would be a good lunch choice, we walked far and long until we could walk no more. Canal Chinese Restaurant was the first decent place we found. I ate DUCK for the first time and loved it!

Shopping would have been some fun so we headed to Bloomingdales, but got pushed out because they closed the store early on Sunday. So we went back home washed up and went to MELT Gelato for dinner...yep dinner! Mom and I had crepes and Gelato for supper, it was Delicious!

Central Park was on the way back to the hotel so we visited it for a brief moment before heading back to get more rest. This was our last night in NYC - tomorrow back to Boston.

NEW YORK CITY - Eha

Day 2 - NYC

Back on the Subway we go!

The luxurious Maybach House Car dropped us off at Rockefella Center, can you see the Hawaiian flag?

The very pretty castle church was right across the street - translation "St. Patrick's" Church.

It's now 1:00pm, 94 degrees and humid again...Brooklyn Bridge here we come. We didn't even reach the bridge yet and we wanted to turn around, the heat was mind boggling! Eventually we got half way and felt the breeze..yipee!

As soon as we got to the Brooklyn side of the bridge we searched for the famous Ice Cream shop to cool us down. Yummy and melting.

Once the ice cream was gone we hoped on the New York water taxi to Pier 17. It was a 3 minute ride nothing like the Expeditions Ferry's 45 minute trip.

We headed back home base got some shut eye and woke up hungry. Aunty Lisa and I had the Pasta of the Day - Seafood Primavera and mom had the Chicken with Mashed Potatos and Green Beans.

The house car took us straight to Broadway to watch MAMA MIA at Winter Garden...loved it! Thanks Aunty Lisa for my early birthday present.

Back to the hotel and ready for more beauty rest...what are we doing tomorrow?

BOSTON NYC - Ekolu

Farewell Boston, off to the Big Apple we go. South Station Amtrak Station was full of restaurants to choose from, seating areas and cool A/C.

Train seating - Spacious and Chilly!

We're in New York, not sure exactly where but at least we're there after the 4.5 hour trip.

What a way to welcome us to New York City...stepping out to the Subway with horrendous heat and a bunch of stairs to carry all of our luggage up to catch a taxi. It's too hard to smile. Ugh!


Arriving to Four Seasons New York and entering our room for the next 3 days made us smile again. Time to eat at GINGER's thank you Tim for the perfect 1st dinner in NYC.

BOSTON - Elua

Hello!! This is my Aunty Lisa and my second day at Boston and mom's first day.

Look at the Gazebo.

I own the world!!

It looks like the Statue Of Liberty but it's not.

Look at that beautiful big waterfall.

We are entering the Boston Park. It is humongous.

We're in the cemetery called Granary Burying Ground. This is where the Franklin ohana grave is.

You can't see but that green shiny rectangle says SPRING ST. I thought it was so funny. haha

Us in front of the Tap and the Purple Shamrock.

We ate at the Union Oyster House. Mmm

Smile mommy...
It's din din time with Tim at DAVIO's! I had the Cheese Pizza, did I mention it was the best tasting Pizza I've ever tasted?!

Next...DESSERT anyone? This is heaven!

BOSTON - Ekahi

Tuesday, 7/13

I did laundry while Aunty went to work and Uncle went out with Mikey. I'm all packed! Aunty hasn't started yet. I just have to clean my room. We leave for Chicago-Boston early tomorrow!

Goodbye Uncle Aaron!

Monday, 7/12 - Cedar Point the IV

I started out the day going to Aunty's library and watching a movie on a laptop (NO studying!). When Aunty was done we drove to Cobblestone so I could have lunch with Cookie and Aunty could go to her dentist appointment. We had lunch at SORRENTO'S. We did a little shopping at MIDWAY MALL before picking up Casi.

OK so its actually the 5th time I'm going to Cedar Point but this time Casi joined me! We got there late around 6 p.m. but we were lucky to get on a lot of rides! The lines were pretty short except for Top Thrill Dragster. We stayed until they closed all the rides shutdown. We had a lot of fun!

MAXAIR

RAPTOR (FRONT ROW)


LUNCH AT JOHNNY ROCKET'S

POWER TOWER - DROP DOWN..

... and SHOT UP
CORKSCREW
GEMINI
SNAKE RIVER FALLS (TWICE)

THUNDER CANYON

SHOOT THE RAPIDS (TWICE)


and the MILLENNIUM FORCE

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Sunday, 7/11

A whole day of doing nothing! Well I watched a Hanna Montana marathon on the Disney Channel while Aunty slept. We ended up not going shopping but we did get ice cream from HERSHEY'S ICE CREAM.

Saturday, 7/10 - Shopping day

We went to AURORA FARMS PREMIUM OUTLET MALL to do some shopping. Aunty needed a dress for a wedding. She found a couple of dresses at a good price and I found some tanks, shirts and a sweater.

We had lunch at TREICHEL'S GRILLE.

Friday, 7/09 - Cedar Point 3

MAXAIR in the rain

DISASTER TRANSPORT -- that was a fast ride!

WICKED TWISTER -- front row!

The BIG WHEEL with Aunty Lisa

TROIKA
[video too big, boo!]
OCEAN MOTION

DODGEM
[video too big, boo!]
THE MONSTER

Judo practice while waiting for the CEDAR POINT AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD

Aunty's back was sore so we went home. But I had a fun day!

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Thursday, 7/08

Study, study again!

Wednesday, 7/07 - Despicable Me

Aunty took me, Michael, Luis and Eilyn to see a pre-screening of DESPICABLE ME in 3-D. I loved the movie! It was the best one yet!

I don't know what happened but my slipper broke and I lost my cell phone temporarily. But all is well now.

Tuesday, 7/06

Back to studying all day! I have to keep up so I can go to the movies tomorrow.

Monday, 7/05 - Amish country

First we went to SMUCKER'S. Uncle was excited! He always wanted to come here. He eats toast with peanut butter and jelly almost every morning!




Next stop was LEHMAN'S HARDWARE. They had all kinds of stuff in there, including a portable toilet I wanted.

We started getting hungry and went to FARMSTEAD RESTAURANT for a good old-fashioned Amish meal -- roast beef and noodles and fried chicken.

Michael, Luis and his sister Aileen

We drove all over trying to find YODER'S AMISH HOME. We took a tour of how they live. I thought that I would like to live like the Amish until I saw the outhouse and the creepy bedrooms.





I loved visiting the barn -- they had all kinds of animals, even Beagle puppies! The 5-day old bunny scratched my finger so a lady on our tour gave me anti-bacterial gel to use. Aunty ran out of that stuff.

Uncle and I even got a buggy ride!