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We went to NYC this weekend. We wanted to pay a visit to Mike and Jill (my stepson and his fiancee) before their wedding in October.
We went out on Friday. We were supposed to get out there late afternoon and have dinner with Mike and Jill, but our departure was delayed from 1:30 to 5:30, due to bad weather at LaGuardia. We ended up having dinner after 10:00, and dessert after midnight. Mike made a great... forget what it was called... noodles, sausage, green things... sorry. And then an awesome caramel pudding. So with all that food in me that late, I couldn't get to sleep. It was getting light out before I really fell soundly asleep. Our hotel room was decent, but there were shared bathrooms. But it was relatively inexpensive.
The next day they took us out for brunch, and then Cindy and I went to MOMA. We saw pretty much the whole thing, though we breezed through most of it pretty quickly. Saw "The Starry Night", "Christina's World", "The Persistence of Memory", plus Hopper, Mondrian, Monet, Magritte, Rousseau, Picasso, Pollock, etc. They also had photographers - Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, Edward Steichen, Harold Edgerton, William Wegman...
We walked through the corner of Central Park for a bit. The weather was great. Warm in the sun, cool in the shade. We met Mike and Jill at a "Wisconsin" restaurant down in the West Village. Didn't seem at all Wisconsiny, but I did see a local gin on the menu. The place was cozy. They kick out the afternoon bargoers at 6:00, and begin dinners. There were only seven or eight tables, in addition to about that many seats at the bar, and we got the only table for four. Very good food.
Then back to Mike's and Jill's to hang out and play some games. Brunch again in the morning.
For the afternoon, Cyn and I walked south. We went down Broadway through Soho, and ended up at the World Trade Center and Ground Zero. Then down to Battery Park for a view of the Statue of Liberty. We stopped for a drink in the oldest surviving building in Manhattan (we found out later). George Washington had his farewell feast there (or something like that), after the Revolutionary War had ended.
Then we spent 70 minutes trying to get back to Mike's. It should have been a half hour trip by subway, but we couldn't figure out where to find one that would take us. We called Mike, but still had to walk half the way back before getting the subway. We could have gotten back quicker if we'd just walked the whole way straight back, rather than wandering and backtracking, and checking maps and calling Mike, going into the wrong stations, and so on. I ended up spending $18 for the weekend, to ride the subway three times. A single-ride ticket only costs $2.75. It was especially frustrating because after being there twice before, I thought I was getting the hang of it.
Then we got a quick supper and a taxi to the airport.
We went out on Friday. We were supposed to get out there late afternoon and have dinner with Mike and Jill, but our departure was delayed from 1:30 to 5:30, due to bad weather at LaGuardia. We ended up having dinner after 10:00, and dessert after midnight. Mike made a great... forget what it was called... noodles, sausage, green things... sorry. And then an awesome caramel pudding. So with all that food in me that late, I couldn't get to sleep. It was getting light out before I really fell soundly asleep. Our hotel room was decent, but there were shared bathrooms. But it was relatively inexpensive.
The next day they took us out for brunch, and then Cindy and I went to MOMA. We saw pretty much the whole thing, though we breezed through most of it pretty quickly. Saw "The Starry Night", "Christina's World", "The Persistence of Memory", plus Hopper, Mondrian, Monet, Magritte, Rousseau, Picasso, Pollock, etc. They also had photographers - Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, Edward Steichen, Harold Edgerton, William Wegman...
We walked through the corner of Central Park for a bit. The weather was great. Warm in the sun, cool in the shade. We met Mike and Jill at a "Wisconsin" restaurant down in the West Village. Didn't seem at all Wisconsiny, but I did see a local gin on the menu. The place was cozy. They kick out the afternoon bargoers at 6:00, and begin dinners. There were only seven or eight tables, in addition to about that many seats at the bar, and we got the only table for four. Very good food.
Then back to Mike's and Jill's to hang out and play some games. Brunch again in the morning.
For the afternoon, Cyn and I walked south. We went down Broadway through Soho, and ended up at the World Trade Center and Ground Zero. Then down to Battery Park for a view of the Statue of Liberty. We stopped for a drink in the oldest surviving building in Manhattan (we found out later). George Washington had his farewell feast there (or something like that), after the Revolutionary War had ended.
Then we spent 70 minutes trying to get back to Mike's. It should have been a half hour trip by subway, but we couldn't figure out where to find one that would take us. We called Mike, but still had to walk half the way back before getting the subway. We could have gotten back quicker if we'd just walked the whole way straight back, rather than wandering and backtracking, and checking maps and calling Mike, going into the wrong stations, and so on. I ended up spending $18 for the weekend, to ride the subway three times. A single-ride ticket only costs $2.75. It was especially frustrating because after being there twice before, I thought I was getting the hang of it.
Then we got a quick supper and a taxi to the airport.
