Shopping - Chinatown Style

One of the days, Christina took us to Chinatown - on Canal Street. She knows of a 'special place' to get purses that are SO CLOSE to the real thing that the people could get in big trouble if they were found out. She gave us the hook-up and I ended up with this cool red purse and brown wallet!


There was good shopping to be had in Chinatown - we bought some pashmina scarves and i got a necklace and earrings too. Very cool.

Apparently Little Italy is located smack dab in the middle of Chinatown, so we walked through a different part of it to get to our evening restaurant in Little Italy and I spotted this at one of the outdoor seafood markets - a bucket of frogs for sale! ICK!!

Here's a super cute picture of Mayce's Mom - Terrye. We call her T-Nann. She was a blast to spend the trip with!

After shopping in Chinatown, we took the tour bus over to the South Street Seaport for lunch and free time.

There were a bunch of really cool ships to see and some good shopping too.

I saw this at one of the shops - couldn't resist taking a picture!!


It was kind of a boardwalk area, but since it was cold and rainy, we spent most of our time inside.

We had lunch upstairs in the shopping area and outside on their deck we had a spectacular view of the Brooklyn Bridge!

It looks so depressing because of the weather, but it was an amazing bridge to see!

In this close-up, it looks like a wooden roller coaster - or scaffolding or something....weird......

Great views!

One interesting thing we saw was this parking structure....since not that many people have cars in NYC, the ones that do have to get creative about parking/storage of their cars.

We were intrigued by this structure - it is a car elevator of sorts. I guess you drive into the bottom of the contraption and then it somehow brings the car up so that another one can fit under it.....but my question was: What if you're the car at the top and you want to go somewhere???