Welcome to New York... in style

So we were trying to figure out how to get to our hotel from the bus station. Audra called our hotel and asked for suggestions and they said "oh we will have a limo waiting for you when you get off the bus." I guess we will take it? ha. So year we got to Chinatown and a Limo picked us up from there and took us to the hotel. We had a lot of fun just making jokes about that because who just takes a limo to their hotel? Once we got there we put out stuff in out closet of a room and then went to the Empire State Building. It was really hazy there but it was still cool to be up there.

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