Looking Out

Kristen and I had a wonderful time in New York, though it seems like months ago now. Here we are at the top of the Empire State Building. It was fun to gaze over New York City, but it wasn't fun getting to the top-it took forever. Well, not really forever, but we stood in about 10 different lines, and it wasn't even a busy time of year-I saw tons of empty aisles of those ropes like at theme parks.

What else did we do? We took the double decker city tour through downtown and uptown, saw Ground Zero, which is completely fenced off and looks more like a construction zone than the devestation that occured there. We walked around Times Sqare and along Battery Park to see the Statue of Liberty. We saw the musical The Pajama Game featuring Harry Connick Jr., which was fabulous! We went to Cafe Lalo on the upper west side and had dessert-this is the same cafe where Meg Ryan met Tom Hanks in You've Got Mail. We rode the subway a lot. In fact, one night, we were coming back from Brooklyn, visiting the Hays, and we were traveling under the East River, when the driver for some reason kept accelerating. Seriously, we were going so fast, we were getting a little nervous, rocking back and forth on this speeding bullet of a subway train underneath a river-it felt like we were going 100 mph! Then, we come to a stop, not at a station, but still underneath either the river or the ground, I'm sure because we were waiting on the current train at the station to depart since we arrived so early at break neck speed! Luckily, we didn't derail. We also went to the Regis and Kelly morning show; that was fun, but Kelly was off that day and Kristen really wanted to see her, but the show was still funny. One of the best things we did was eat pizza most every day. If you ever go to NYC, be sure to visit Joe's Pizza down by NYU at 6th Ave & Bleeker-apparently it's the best in the city, we loved it.

P.S. It was fun, but I don't see how people enjoy living with a million & a half other people in such tight quarters.