New York Day 2

It was a miracle... but in the 6 or so hours we spent at the hotel, the swelling went down on my feet and I could walk again!  This time both Gordon and I wore our regular Soloman shoes, meant for some serious walking -and bike riding. 

Breakfast was at Sarabeth's, across the street from Central Park.  Good food, and nice atmosphere.  From there we walked a couple of blocks to pick up the bike's we reserved.  Biking through Central Park is an awesome way to see it.  Not only was it nice to be biking instead of walking for a bit, but we got to see a lot more of the park than we would have been able to in a short amount of time.  It took a minute to two to figure out where we could bike and where we couldn't, but once we had that figured out, we were off. 
Stopped at Bethesda fountain and walked for a bit, and again when we got to the big resevoir and Strawberry fields.  We spent two hours biking (including Gordon and Jessica's brave ride up a couple of blocks back in the city (Justin and I opted to walk our bikes back) and went to the Museum of Natural History. 

I noticed when we went to Washington DC that it's hard to see all or even most of the museums in the short amount of time you have. We saw nearly all of the main exhibits, I think we all liked the Ocean one the best.

Lunch was right around the corner from the museum at Shake Shack.  Very good hamburgers and shakes and we ate it on a park bench nearby.

If I remember right, we also walked around the Financial District (I can't remember why we never went to the Bull) and saw the New York Stock Exchange and the NY Public Library.  We also walked into Chinatown and Little Italy and had an interesting bathroom experience at the McDonalds.  I guess it wasn't that interesting, just the longest wait we had for the restrooms in a very crowded McDonalds.  We saw Grand Central Station and went to dinner at Lombardis.  We ordered a large pizza but split in two, the first one I ate made me start to doubt the deliciousness of New York pizza -and it was their specialty too.  It just wasn't great and the crust was a little burnt.  The second half we put garlic sauteed spinach and homemade meatballs.  Much better.

We also went up to the Top of the Rock (Justin and I made sure we took our city pass the rest of the trip) and saw the view from up there.