Had a good sleep in after last night's late excursion. We headed off late morning for their “local” fresh egg supplier – a market garden in Connecticut, so we can add another state to our travel list. Then we headed into Manhatten again by train, this time into Central Park – what a lovely, green oasis with families, dogs, kids, couples everywhere. Lots of rambling trees, a pond where the kids could hire remote control sailboats. The disappointing thing was that we didn't run into Tom Hanks with Brinkley or Meg Ryan!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Empire State Building
We headed off on foot along Madison Avenue to St Patrick's Cathedral (St Paddy's as they call it), where we had time to look around the magnificent structure and artworks before Mass at 5.30: very traditional and old-style, with the added pomp of a cathedral atmosphere. Our hosts are Lutherans but feel quite comfortable going to a Catholic service. Next we took a bus to the Empire State Building; it took a long time to get through all the queues for security and then queues to get to the lifts. There was quite a crowd, being a Saturday night and because it was getting close to sunset; we had a good look at all the different aspects of New York by daylight and r
ealised how huge this city is.
Then we watched the sun set; then one by one the lights started to come on – so pretty to watch and a totally transformed outlook once they were all twinkling. Again, Meg Ryan didn't show, nor did Tom Hanks, Cary Grant or Deborah Kerr....
We were going to eat in the bistro in the lobby of the building, but they had very loud rock music blaring and we couldn't face a dinner of shouting at each other. So we ate at a little hamburger joint on 5th Avenue. Then back to Grand Central for the train to White Plains. Once again we were walking the mile from the train station to their condo around 10.30pm without fear: we've felt much safer than we expected in this town.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
New York, New York!
Still Thursday.
We must haveGraham had a vertigo attack at dinner time, so he went to bed instead of having dinner. Normally this would mean he would spend about an hour throwing up, then sleep till late and spend most of the next day sleeping, eating little. I sent a quick SOS to Mark to ask for prayer before I typed this. God is faithful – no throwing up!
Friday
Up very late, brunch around 11.00am. We headed for New York Botanical Gardens: how beautiful! Each corner we turned had another wow! Delightful afternoon tea in their kiosk. We went home for dinner, sat talking for ages, then Ann said let's go and look at Times Square at night – so off we went at 9.20pm and there we were, walking the streets of Manhatten until after midnight! What a blaze of lights and action, especially Friday night – everyone was out! The Empire State Building was only lit high up but even so, it looked amazing. Got to bed around 1.15am!
We must haveGraham had a vertigo attack at dinner time, so he went to bed instead of having dinner. Normally this would mean he would spend about an hour throwing up, then sleep till late and spend most of the next day sleeping, eating little. I sent a quick SOS to Mark to ask for prayer before I typed this. God is faithful – no throwing up!
Friday
Up very late, brunch around 11.00am. We headed for New York Botanical Gardens: how beautiful! Each corner we turned had another wow! Delightful afternoon tea in their kiosk. We went home for dinner, sat talking for ages, then Ann said let's go and look at Times Square at night – so off we went at 9.20pm and there we were, walking the streets of Manhatten until after midnight! What a blaze of lights and action, especially Friday night – everyone was out! The Empire State Building was only lit high up but even so, it looked amazing. Got to bed around 1.15am!
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