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Departing October 10,
2008
DAY
1
- Fly to New York
- Holiday Inn
Express (or similar)
We begin our "New York, New York" tour
today as we jet to the Big Apple and transfer to our
hotel.
DAY
2
- Continental
Breakfast, Deli Dinner
- Tour of
Manhattan
- Night time visit
to Empire State Building
Today we will sightsee this grand city.
You will visit Upper New York, including Fifth Avenue, Lincoln
Center, Columbia University, Central Park, as well as Lower New
York, where you'll see Greenwich Village, Chinatown, Wall Street and
the United Nations Building.
Dinner tonight will be at one of the
delis that New Yorkers brag about. We'll complete our day atop the
Empire State Building with its breathtaking views. You'll return to
your hotel sleepless but not in Seattle.
DAY
3
- Continental
Breakfast, Dinner
- Cruise to the
Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art
We'll tour 2 of America's greatest
symbols of hope and freedom today, as we venture to Ellis Island and
the Statue of Liberty. For millions before you, the circumstances
were different, the urgency was greater, the future was more
uncertain but, the inspiration was the same. You can not help but be
proud to be an American today.
This afternoon, we'll visit the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the great museums of the world.
Among the collections are Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, New
Eastern art and antiquities, European and Oriental paintings and
sculptures, arms and armor, musical instruments, arts from Africa,
Oceania, and the Americas, 20th Century art, ancient glass, and
European and American decorative arts. Don't miss the roof top
garden overlooking
Central Park.
DAY
4
- Continental
Breakfast, Dinner
- West Point Tour
- Visit Hyde Park
- Holiday
Inn-Express
We will tour up the scenic Hudson River
today. Along the way, we will tour the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point and Franklin Roosevelt's family home and where he is buried.
You'll love our resort hotel.
DAY 5
- Continental
Breakfast, Dinner
- Tour through the
Catskills to Cooperstown
- Baseball Hall of
Fame
Today, we'll have a leisurely tour of
the Catskill Mountains (scene of Rip Van Winkle's famous nap). A
highlight of our day will be our visit to Cooperstown and the
Baseball Hall of Fame. The first game ever played occurred at the
town's ballpark, Doubleday Field. Famed author James Fenimore Cooper
spent his boyhood here. The entire town looks like a movie
set!
DAY
6
- Breakfast,
Dinner
- Cruise on Hudson
River
- Tour to Saratoga
& Lake George
- Wingate by
Wyndham Hotel
Today, we embark on a scenic cruise of
the lovely Hudson River as we head north along the scenic Hudson
River Valley. We also visit the New York State Capitol in Albany and
Saratoga Springs, once the summer playground of America's wealthy,
before we arrive in the lovely Lake George.
DAY
7
- Breakfast,
Dinner
- Adirondack
Tour
We'll take another leisurely mountain
tour today as we sightsee the Adirondacks. Kodak Moments will
include the Ausable Chasm and the beautiful shores of Lake
Champlain.
DAY 8
We'll return to New York for our Flight
Home. We'll certainly be returning home with many fond memories of
the fall scenes of New York, New York!
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