Departing October 8, 2010

DAY 1

• Fly to New York
• Homewood Suites by Hilton

We begin our "New York, New York" tour today as we jet to the Big Apple and transfer to our hotel.

DAY 2

• Breakfast, Deli Dinner
• Tour of Manhattan
• Nighttime 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 Deli's 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

• Breakfast, Dinner
• Circle Line Cruise of Manhattan

This morning, we will take the famous Circle Line Cruise along the Manhattan shore line.  You will see all the great sights including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, the United Nations's Building and so much more.

This afternoon we will visit Times's Square and Rockefeller Center.

DAY 4

• Breakfast, Dinner
• Tour Hudson River Valley to Saratoga
• West Point Tour
• Visit Hyde Park
• Hilton Garden Inn

We will tour up the scenic Hudson River today.  Along the way, we will tour the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Hyde Park, Franklin Roosevelt's family home, and where he is buried. 

We will then continue on to lovely Saratoga Springs, once the summer playground of the rich and famous.

DAY 5

• Breakfast, Dinner
• Adirondack Tour

We will take another leisurely mountain tour today as we sightsee the Adirondacks.  Kodak moments will include the Ausable Chasm, the beautiful shores of Lake Champlain, Mirror Lake, and Lake Placid.

DAY 6

• Breakfast, Dinner
• Tour to Cooperstown
• Baseball Hall of Fame
• Inn at Finger Lakes

This morning, we will visit 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 7

• Continental Breakfast
• William H. Seward House
• Women's Rights National Historical Park
• Susan B. Anthony Home
• Holiday Inn

We will tour more of the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York, this morning, as we visit the William H. Seward House in Aurburn and the Women's Rights National Historical Park in gorgeous Seneca Falls.  This afternoon, we will take a short drive to Rochester, where we will tour the home of Susan B. Anthony, on eof America's greta Civial Rights leaders and suffragettes.

DAY 8

• Continental Breakfast, Dinner
• George Eastman House & Museum
• Maid of the Mist Cruise at Niagara Falls
• Holiday Inn-Express

This morning, we will visit the 50 room George Eastman Mansion, Gardens, and the wonderful International Museum of Photography and Film.  Later, we will continue to Niagara Falls where we will enjoy the scenic panorama of the famous "Falls" from the Prospect Point Observation Tower before we embark on the famous Maid of the Mist cruise.  Then it's on to the Canadian side for some more spectacular views and the lights of the "Falls".  (Those wishing to travel to the Canadian side to view the light show on the "Falls" at night will need a valid passport).

DAY 9

• Continental Breakfast
• City Tour of Buffalo
• Fly Home