Empire State Building

These photos were all taken at, or on top of, the Empire State Building. If you ever go to New York and want to see this, consider doing what we did, and go around midnight. Brian tells me that he frequently sees lines wrapped around the building waiting to get in. We had virtually no wait.

I really liked the Art Deco style in the lobby.

And one exciting thing about my trip to New York City is that I only got yelled at once! I don't know how I do it, but it seems like when I travel, I always commit errors, or crimes, or something. Totally inadvertently. Anyway, just after snapping this next shot, a guard exclaimed in a very loud, crowd-reaching voice, "And YOU need to stop taking photographs!"

I honestly don't get what I did wrong. I didn't see any signs. But just down the hall from him, I asked another guard if it was ok to photograph, and they said "Certainly." But I waited until I got to the top of the building, just in case. . . .

How can you not be at the top of this building and not think of "Sleepless in Seattle?"

By the end, we were all getting quite cold, as you can probably tell from this shot.