For details on our first day in New York, check out this post. Now for day 2.

We woke up exhausted again, having each only slept a total of about 9 hours over the past two nights. We had breakfast at the hotel, then we caught a cab to Walgreens (for some medicine for my sinus infection) and then over to the Brooklyn Bridge. When we were originally planning our trip, we hadn’t even thought of walking across the Brooklyn Bridge until my little brother mentioned that it was one of the highlights of his recent New York trip. So we walked across the bridge, and it was pretty amazing. It gives a great view of the city, and there’s something really cool about walking across such a historical bridge. I am consistently amazed at the things people were able to do so long ago, like build bridges that would last for centuries. (I’m often amazed that I made it through high school without the Internet — seriously, how did people write papers before the Internet? Did I really used to have to go to the library to do research? Weird!) So walking across this huge, sturdy, amazing bridge was a pretty cool experience.