New York- Presidents Day Weekend

Over Presidents Day weekend three of my house mates and I went to New York to site-see and get some ISP's (individual service projects) done. We headed out Friday late afternoon with Rob driving his car. We were taking him and his mom up to see some family in Eastern New York. Rob dropped Chase, Justin, and myself off at a train station in New Jersey and took the train north to Penn Station- New York, the ticket was $8. We got to Penn Station and started walking north to our hostel which is up in Harlem. On our walk we walked through Time Square and then just kept walking along side of Central Park since we didn't think it would be a good idea to walk through at night. It ended up being about a 5 mile walk. So I am getting tired of writing so i am going to just list the things that i did.

Friday
- We hung out in the lounge with the other residents and went to bed some what earlier since we were really tired.

Saturday
- Woke up early to walk to the homeless shelter
- Got there at 10am and met all of the workers and some residents
- We went to the basement and cleaned and organized a room with all the clothing donations. We had to throw out about 75% of the clothes since they didn't have room to store it all.
- there were tons of really nice kinds of clothes and we had to throw away most of it.
- we were able to take any clothes that we wanted. i took a couple shirts and 11 ties, all Armani, Saks 5th, and Hermes.
- We stayed 9pm and then headed back to the hostel to hang out with the rest of the hostel again.

Sunday
- Woke up early to go on our day of touring NYC
- Took the subway from Harlem all the way to the Statue of Liberty which is at the bottom of Manhattan.
- We walked north from there, going through the financial district, empire state building, UN Building, McDonalds that was featured on the Travel Channel and ended in Times Square.
- We stayed in times square for the rest of the day which was about 4 till midnight. We walked around checking out stores and then went to the Hard Rock for dinner.
- Afterwards we met up with some other AmeriCorps people and went out to some bars for the night.

Monday
- We worked at the homeless shelter at 9am. They didn't have much work for us so we just worked till 1pm after the lunch hour of serving. We headed back to Maryland right from there.

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Here is the link to my pictures from the weekend. http://picasaweb.google.com/rtaylorb