It felt like home to be back in my old stomping grounds from my mission. New York City!!! I love this place. If I could only convince Mandy to move here. You feel so alive. For those of you that have been here, you know what I mean. Sundays are our only days off while we are out knocking doors in New Jersey, so we try and take advantage of the opportunity to go to the city. Time Square was closed off for some rally that was going to happen. Usually Broadway is full of taxi cabs up and down the street where I'm standing.
Braden Spence, Matt
Stevenson, me and Ryan Starks all went into the city. Again we are standing in the middle of Broadway. I have never seen Broadway so empty, it was kinda weird.
Matt Stevenson, Ryan and Ryan Starks getting more pics in Time Square.
I don't know what Matt is doing behind me, but we where having fun. M&M's anyone?
Matt Stevenson, Ryan Starks, Braden Spence,
Taylor Dame and me standing on the steps that lead down to that famous water fountain that has been in
a lot of movies. The only movie I can think of is in Ransom when Mel
Gibson's son is kidnapped. It was a beautiful day and we all had a great time.
This was a family that was singing together. They were actually really good. You see a lot of this all around New York. Everyone was taking pictures and
giving them money.
This is where all the New Yorkers come to hang out. It is so funny, people act like there on the beach. Girls have
bikini's, guys are playing volleyball and everyone is sun tanning. This is a day at the beach for most people who live in New York. You always see a lot more than you are planning for as well. We probably walked through this park three times for Ryan Starks.
You have to get a picture in front of the David Letterman Show. Taylor Dames, Braden Spence, me and Matt Stevenson. We have a great time and plan on doing it again really soon.
Last Sunday we went to the Monmouth Park Horse races. Come to find out, this horse track has a lot of history, with many jockeys winning major horse races here. It was really cold that day, but we had a lot of fun.
This is the winning horse with the Jockey. Once the race was over the winning horse and Jockey get a picture with the owner and his family. After the picture the Jockey has to go and stand on a scale to be weighed. I guess this is to make sure that they aren't cheating and that he is in the right weight class.
There wasn't a lot of people there as you can see in the back ground, but they were all beating. 
Justin Bankhead, me, Jared Kalama and Taylor Dames. I'm holding the ticket, but I didn't bet, it was the ticket that lost Jared $10.
This is like the Hall of Flags at UVU. This where everyone hangs out, places bets and enjoys a hot dog and a cold beer. There were so many people betting. All of the banners hanging up behind me are of winning jockeys and the years that they won here at Monmouth Parks.
Before all the horses race, they walk the horses down this parade route. It allows people to see the horses and the jockeys and I guess it helps them decide on who they are going to place money on. The kids would have really liked this. Plan on going to one when you come out.
I'm not really a horse guy, but these horses are beautiful.
Underneath the Monmouth Park it states that this is the home of the $1,000,000 Haskell Invitational on August 2nd. We might just have to come out to this race and see it we can finish the summer out strong.
