The River Cafe is expensive – not at all as costly as Per Se or Megu – but it’s a gorgeous place with consistantly delicious food. It’s a barge that’s on the Brooklyn side of the East River and every seat here has a great view of Manhattan – service is excellent and it would be a memorable experience.
http://www.rivercafe.com/

If you like Spanish food (from Spain, not Mexico – it’s an entirely different cuisine), Costa del Sol on 50th Street and Ninth Avenue is wonderful – for $ 25, you get a complete dinner with a ton of choices – AND IT’s GOOD! You get a choice of soup or salad – (I never order salad when there’s another choice, so I can’t comment). My favorite soup is the Caldo Gallego – from Galecia Spain – a delicious hearty soup with bacon, chorizo sausage, white beans, kale and other vegetables; you can also order the cold gazpacho or a chicken soup with noodles. You have a choice of more than twenty entrees – at least six different shrimp dishes – my favorites are the very lightly floured shrimp with wine sauce and the garlic shrimp – HUGE portions. You can also order salmon, paella, a whole lobster with butter sauce, various chicken dishes, mixed seafoods, veal., pork chops. These come with saffron rice and string beans – large platters on the table for everyone. You also get dessert and coffee – the cheesecake is good, but you can have flan or rice pudding or icecream. As if all this food weren’t enough of a bargain, if two of you order this three course dinner, you can get a bottle of red or white wine for only $ 6 more ($ 3 each)
http://members.aol.com/cdelsol/

Chez Josephine on 42nd and Ninth Avenue is a great place to go for a celebration – the food’s good, reasonably priced, it’s fun and the staff always makes you feel important – even when it’s not your birthday.
http://www.chezjosephine.com/

If it’s within your budget, a carriage ride through Central Park would be lovely.
http://www.ajnfineart.com/mcc/carriageri...
http://www.lovetoeatandtravel.com/site/u...
http://www.centralparkcarriages.com/...
(if you are eating dinner near the Park the carriage will pick you up or drop you off at the restaurant – nice suprise)

Does she have a sweet tooth – there is a dessert only restaurant in the East Village – $ 12 for a 3-course dinner
(not for your anniversary – for another night)
http://www.chikalicious.com/

Happy Anniversary!

River Cafe in Brooklyn and One if By Land, Two if By Sea in downtown are pretty consistently rated among the most romantic restaurants in NYC, but they are very old school feeling. There are steakhouses (Peter Lugars in Brooklyn, CraftSteak)

There are tons of gourmet chefs in NYC that have places also (WD-50, Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill, Bouley, Danube). Or you might want to try L’ecole, the restaurant, which is the restaurant for the students of the French Culinary Institute.

Can’t think of a better spot on a budget…

Yeah Shanghai Deluxe or Lima’s Taste Ceviche Bar do come to mind.

first of all….Washington has major PMSing weather…so be ready for it to be freezing..then 80 degrees, then pouring rain within an hour^^

be comfortable too, cause youll be walking everywhere and stuff

just layer up, and have jackets with you but anything else, just go with your normal style^^like things you would wear to school

im sure you will get to go shopping at places in newyork, we raided a quicksilver and everyone got like 3 new things to wear so there are always new chances to get new clothes

if your going to a play,..plz wear comfortable shoes..not 3 inch heels like i did which where a death trap…. but if you want to go ahead^^
just dont overdress…you will feel weird….stay around neutral

um lets see, dont have a huge jacket..big problemo and pain to carry around…

bring a water proof jacket, like a fashionable snow jacket…scarves where on everyone so bring those^^…and boooottss…gloves too….sunglasses and hats

accesorize mostly with those and not too much jewlery…DX
i lost my earings and fav bracelet in a hotel…

but bring skinnies, t-shirts…or what ever you want, it all depends on your comfort^^

have fun like i did!!! its beatiful in dc,

(i recommend looking around for stands that sell cherry blossom soap-dont ask but its the best smelling soap EVER!!!-in a grey box with a pink picture on the lid^^)

BIG TIP…ALOT of us died of dehydration..be smart and have water or youll pass out…not even kidding….

also bring some nice cloths if you are going some where fancy.

Typically temperatures in washingtion and NYC are in the upper 50s and low 60s at this time of the year during the day, and in the upper 40s during the night, but next week will be in the low to mid 50s during the day and the low to mid 40s at night.

good luck

http://www.flight-savings.com.au for the thing

Just before you leave, check the weather for Washington, DC online–that’ll give you a better idea.

The Hilton at 750 Kearny is one of the UGLIEST buildings in SF though its location is closer to the Financial District most of the restaurants nearby close early and there are few entertainment options.

Try going to a science museum in San Francisco like the Exploratorium or the California Academy of Sciences. You can also go to Yerba Buena Center (there’s a BART stop) and to the Zeum, which is a really fun museum where you can do things like make your own music video or do 3-D animation. There’s also a cool playground (even though you’re teenagers, it is still incredibly fun) there. Zeum is kinda geared towards littler kids, but my friends and I go there all the time and we have a blast!

Good luck!

Vanderbilt YMCA
224 East 47th St.
New York, NY 10017
(212) 912-2500

West Side YMCA
5 West 63rd St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 875-4100

I hope this information is very helpful.

Good luck

As a tourist to Japan, you won’t run into much problems with people trying to assist you if you have a question to ask. The train system usually has English signs and announcements around.

I guess if you wanted to use English all the time then go to Singapore.

When you have something to buy most times there’s no talking really involve, other then seeing the price on the register and paying. How many times do you talk to the grocery store clerk at home? Show up at desk, give item, item is scanned, see price, and pay.

Write down what you would like to see in Singapore then write down what you would like to see in Japan, you’ll probably find more of what you’ll like to do in Japan, simply because Japan is a larger country, the population of Tokyo is more then of Singapore.

Not withstanding, many connection flights don’t have long layovers, mostly 6-14 hours. Barely enough to see or do anything, unless you specifically tell the airline you want to stay in either country for a few days, then usually they jack up the price of your airline ticket, if you miss your flight you still pay a large penalty for re-ticketing. So keep that in mind.

Then it comes down to, “How much time and money
do you have and what do you want to see ?”.

You could spend the rest of your life in New York,
and still not see “everything”. In Washington and
Boston, there isn’t quite as much, but enough to
keep someone busy for weeks, if not months.

3 days in New York (TOO MUCH here in various places…Times Square, Statue Of Liberty, Empire State Building…the “waterfalls” exhibit going on….plenty more!)

2 days in Boston (downtown area, Cambridge/Harvard)

One week should do it!

Start in boston 1 day, 2 days in NYC, and the final day in Washington.

4 days is better.

you can check out flight times from all over the world at this site:
http://jets.com

Good Luck!

The fastest scheduled connection in June, for example, is 13 hrs. and 50 mins. with Lufthansa connecting at Frankfurt, onward to Sofia. Connecting via Amsterdam is scheduled for 15 hrs., 20 mins.

Boston isnt as big and there isnt as much shops, You could probbably get most things done in 5 days

DC is also not as big as nyc but there is alot to do, probbably about 5/6 days there would do