New York City Day 1

I don't even know where to start with this blog.... this trip was amazing!!! I loved New York and I would like to go back ASAP! I don't do well with tons of people around me because I get a little anxious, but surprisingly it didn't bother me at all while we were there. Wait.. I take that back I didn't like how busy it was in Chinatown and Little Italy, that made me anxious. Other then that I was fine.
I took a million pictures so I will post a few later.
So, our plane left SLC at midnight and we got to NYC at 6 AM (NYC time). I thought that I would be able to sleep on the plane, but boy was I wrong! I was way too excited to sleep, I think I slept for about 30 minutes, but that's it. We got a shuttle to take us to the hotel and that was a scary ride. I felt like we were going to hit every car we were next to. NY sure has narrow lanes! Anyways, we couldn't check into our hotel until 3 PM so they let us leave our suitcases in the lobby. I was not happy about that, I worried all day that someone would steal my luggage. No worries, when we got back our luggage hadn't been touched. We stayed at a Holiday Inn in Long Island City so we were 2 miles from Manhattan. We were 4 blocks from the subway which was nice. I feel like I understand the subway there (I'm a pro)! The first thing we did in NY was take the subway into Grand Central Station. That place is so cool, but very busy. We met up with Luke's mom's cousin and he showed us around the station and then took us around town. He showed us the Chrysler building, and some buildings that I can't remember the names, we went to Times Square (which was really neat), and we went to the Empire State Building. It was really cool to be on top (well close to the top) of the ESB and see the city. You could even see the Statue of Liberty from there. While we were enjoying the views it started to rain on us, and it was raining hard! We decided we had seen enough and wanted to go down, well everyone else had that same idea so the elevators were packed! Instead of taking the elevator down we got to walk down the stairs for a couple floors before we could get back on the elevator. As soon as we got to the bottom it had stopped raining and the sun came out.
After the ESB we went to the Rockefeller Center (we went there a lot so I will talk about that one in more detail in day 2), FAO Schwartz and played on the Big Piano (the one in Big), went shopping in Saks 5th Avenue (all I got was a Chanel ribbon ha ha) and saw the St. Patrick's Cathedral. By 3 PM we were exhausted so we went back to the hotel, checked in, and were all sound asleep by 6 PM. What a day! I would never recommend a red eye unless you had a hotel to take a nap in when you got there.