my spring break was awesome for several reasons:

day one - new york
-world trade center memorial
-coffee in the financial district
-wall street
-staten island (to see the statue of liberty)
-brooklyn bridge (walked half way across)
-coney island for a nathan's original hot dog
-greenwich village
-NYU
-soho (where i dropped lots of money at this great record store)
-empire state building
-madison square garden
-classic new york pizza

day two - new york
-today show, rockefeller center
-trip to the top of rockefeller plaza (amazing views of the city)
-radio city music hall
-st. patricks cathedral
-5th avenue
-trump towers
-sony store
-apple store (amazing)
-walk through central park
-the met
-harlem
-columbia university (loved this school)
-times square
-bryant park
-new york public library
-search for now closed CBGB's
-dinner at bubbies in tribeca

day three - travel from new york to boston
-stop at yale university
-drive to newport, rhode island
-drive to providence, rhode island
-stop at brown university
-drive to cape cod
-pull into boston around 8:00 p.m.

day four - boston
-breakfast at dunkin' donuts
-water shuttle to charleston
-climbed bunker hill memorial
-faneuil hall marketplace
-walk portion of freedom trail
-lunch at cheers (no one knew my name)
-public gardens and boston common
-walk down newbury street
-walk to beacon hill
-trip to boston college (in the pouring rain/sleet)
-dinner at giacomis (amazingly good italian food)
-mike's pastry's for some original boston cream pie

day five - boston
-northeastern university
-boston university
-cambridge
-harvard
-MIT
-shopping downtown
-fenway park to watch the red sox beat the angels

day six - travel home
-luggage lost by american airlines

day seven - home
-luggage still lost

day eight - still home
-luggage still lost

day nine - home, still
-luggage finally delivered

i'm pretty sure we say in five days what it takes many people a month to experience. great trip. glad to finally have my luggage back.