Study Abroad 1 May 15th Ogden, New York City

May 15, 2015 Ogden

Friday, May 15th was a long day for Catherine. All the previous week she had to be in Provo (about 90 min away) to be at a "study abroad boot camp." She came back Thursday night to say goodbye to the cats

 and double check her packing. Friday, very early Dave took her to back to Provo for the last day of boot camp. I finished work early and took the train to Salt Lake. They met me there. We had lots of time to kill, so we went to the Gateway, played at the planetarium and stopped at our favorite retro-style clothing store (whose name I can never remember) and then also U-rivals which was going out of business so everything was 75% off PLUS buy one get one free. We got four very expensive BYU sweatshirts for $30 total. Then we went to Tocano's buffet. After that we decided to go to temple square and see if we could find her mission name tag on display. We did and found out that the missionary at the display was from Catherine's mission. It's a very nice exhibit with great stories.

From there, we went to see if the Disney store was still open--no. Still having time to kill, we went back to gateway thinking Barnes and Noble would be open till 11. Nope. The slackers closed at 10 I've worked at THREE Barnes and they all closed at 11!). But we had fun for a little bit and Catherine found the Lego Bible on clearance that she's been wanting for ages. From there we thought we might as well go hang out at the airport. It was a good decision. She had time to leisurely re-adjust her stuff,

and then it took forever, but they did manage to check her backpack all the way through to Milan. The plane left a little after midnight heading to her first stop at New York City.

May16, 2015 NEW YORK CITY

Overnight flight to NYC. She arrived about 7:00 a,m. New York Time, which was 5:00 a.m. Ogden time.  But she wouldn't have been able to sleep much more anyway. The window shade was broken by her seat. The flight to Milan didn't leave until 8:00 p.m. so she had a nice long layover and she made the most of it! She went straight to the time's square area, stopping to look at Grand Central Station which we missed when we were there last year.

Downtown she revisited both M&M world and the Hershey's store and naturally, Build a Bear. But the most impressive thing was the New York City Library. This is what a library should look like!

The lions outside the library are justifiably famous, but I like this lego version too.

In fact, NYC just has a thing for legos in general.

 She was allowed to take a picture of a Guttenberg Bible, which I was not allowed to do when we were in Washington.

She also got to see some of the original stuffed animals from Winnie the Pooh.

The library had a great gift shop and it's greatly to her credit that she got out of there with her wallet intact.

She also went to the Met museum and bought a William the Hippo (the Met mascot) keychain.

And saw more legos

Somewhere along the line she came across a religious demonstration. 

The sandwich at wichcraft was disappointing, but the market at Grand Central--which she stopped at again on the way back to the airport, was not.

 Back at the airport she discovered for herself just how horrific airport prices are. But she got on the right flight, did her best to sleep and arrived in Milan at 10:00 a.m. Milan time WITH her backpack. Good job SLC airport for routing that the right way for our girl!