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Top of the Rock building

My Bite of the Big Apple

     When my aunt called me a few weeks before Christmas and invited me to go with her and my cousin Allynn to New York for Christmas, I was ecstatic! I had never done anything like that before! Soon I traveled all the way to West Virginia, where my aunt and cousin live, so we could...

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Sleeping on a bus, McDonalds, and New York City

  On April 30th, 2008 things went from good to worse, as the Bagley Middle School Band and Chorus were ready and set to go on their yearly trip. This year they had decided to travel 13 hours from Georgia to New York City. You could feel the excitement in the air, as the students had their...

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My Favorite Trip of All

  In the summer of 2007, when I was only twelve years old, my grandparents took my family and me on a two-week vacation to Niagara Falls in New York and Canada. This was very exciting for me, personally, because I would be celebrating my twelfth birthday in an entirely different country. On...

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Bunker Hill Monument-Boston

Exhilaration Vacation!

Samuel Johnson once said, “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”  My imagination became an exhilarating reality when I traveled to the East Coast. Catharina (a German foreign exchange student...

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I <3 New York, New York

My family's trip to New York City was in celebration of my sixteenth birthday. With my dad being from Brooklyn and my mother's best friend being from Queens, nobody needed much convincing. The flight there was interesting enough, seeing as how it was my friend's first time on an...

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New York City architecture

The Big Apple: My Trip to NYC

It was in April of 2011 that I visited New York City. I went with my grandmother (Mimi) and my best friend Hilori. We initially decided to make the trek from Orlando to New York because of a theater troupe that was performing in New Hampshire, but our travels brought us to the big city. Hilori and...

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View from the Top of the Rock of NYC

Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple

Take a bite of the Big Apple simply and cheaply. Contrary to popular belief, it’s quite possible. Take the initiative and make this trip your own. I explored Manhattan. My advice: Think like a resident. Buy a weekly Metro card—I made the mistake of paying as I went. You’ll use...

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Sail along the Hudson with the Ritz-Carlton, Battery Park

Sail Along the Hudson, Bike New York Harbor with Ritz-Carlton Battery Park

For families looking for a great New York City harbor vacation, the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park has the perfect package for you. And, while you could book a hotel in Midtown and see New York by taxi this summer, why not experience the city by bike and boat? Designed for couples, but easily able to...

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Pompeii Exhibit at Discovery Times Square NYC

Now until September 5, Pompeii: The Exhibit is in the Discovery Times Square museum. This exhibit features an immersive glimpse into the lives and the demise of the city of ancient Pompeii. Italy’s Mount Vesuvius has wreaked more havoc and destruction on human communities than any other...

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Spiderman on Broadway

Despite the critics, Broadway is booming with family entertainment

How much would you pay for a memory? I was thinking about that looking around at the parents, grandparents and hoards of young children at the Foxwoods Theater on Broadway where "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" has recently opened. Broadway is expensive but so is going to a Major League...

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