Well, Theresa....when you decided to get on this Blog, you did it in a big way! Good job! Joe was greatly impressed with Jacob's waterboarding skills and claims to know how hard that is to do..
We had decided that for John’s 60th birthday (last November) and our 35th wedding anniversary, we’d take a trip to see Yankee Stadium before it’s torn down at the end of this season.
We spent last weekend in NYC… it was great… Our really only anxious moment was when the shuttle bus driver from the airport let us off at our hotel stop…we stepped off the bus and had absolutely no idea where we were and where the hotel was…. Turns out the stop was one block south of the hotel and all we had to do was walk around the corner to find our hotel.. but I imagine we looked pretty pathetic dragging our luggage around til we figured out where we were!
Our impressions are much the same as Nancy and Stan’s. Way too many people and way too much traffic. I asked a taxi driver if it got less crowded once the summer tourists went home, and he said, "oh no…then the holiday shoppers come to town and it’s even busier." I can’t even imagine!!
We were proud we figured out how to buy a Metro Card, today’s version of subway tokens, and we hopped on for the 15-minute ride to Yankee Stadium. Our seats were five rows from the top, literally with the pigeons,
but it was still a great experience. We were there early enough to get the give-away koozie and to take the tour of Monument Park… pretty much overrated. The next day was Old Timers Day and John and Joe went back for that, but I chose to stay behind. I found Madison & Fifth Avenues, went into SAKS, just so I could say I had been there, and thoroughly enjoyed walking around and just looking. On Sunday, we took a cruise around Manhattan, saw Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty, got off that, then took a bus tour around lower Manhattan. We hopped off near Ground Zero and walked to the site, and saw the church and fire stations that were both in the news.
We walked the streets, saw Times Square, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral. Ate at a great deli, found a pizza place and enjoyed NY style pizza… ate our final lunch at Mickey Mantle’s restaurant near Central Park, after we walked around there for a couple hours.
We all agreed it was a great place to visit but we’re all happy we live where there is a little more room to roam!
Progress on the condo renovation continues, slowly… Last week they hung drywall. Hopefully they can get it taped and mudded this week, so painting can begin soon. All six units have to be completely done before anyone can move back in, so we all hope no one unit holds up the others being able to move back in. All the common areas are also being redone… stairs, hallways… so there is still plenty of work to be done.
See you all at the picnic!
Sue
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