The title has no significance to today's activities - I just enjoy taking to Prue in my terrible New Yorker accent...
Out the door before 8am (but somehow I can never manage this on a work day, as all my colleagues will attest to...), we headed straight to lower manhattan for breakfast at the World Financial Centre before paying tribute at the fairly-new 9/11 Memorial Pools. Amidst the noises and sights of construction of a number of new surrounding WTC towers (including the nearly-finished Freedom Tower / One WTC), this memorial is nothing but a beautiful way to pay respect to the lives lost in 2001. I felt very emotional walking around that entire area of Manhattan. The redevelopment of the site is testament to the determination and sense of independence that America was founded on. A beautiful way to spend a morning paying respects. I walked with Prue along Battery Park toward the New York Jewish History Museum, where we spent another couple of hours. While a great museum, after visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC in 2006, it still holds the benchmark for one of my favourite museum experiences.
We lined up and got tickets to go to Ellis Island, but a 1-hour line for the ferry itself deterred us (might come back another day) and so we walked up toward Wall Street for some lunch and derivatives trading. After breaking even, it was on to SoHo for a brief "shopping preview" - which actually means Dave was tired and said "Prue let's go home, we can come back another day." I'm always one to emphasise the silver lining.
Dinner turned out to be a rewarding exploration of the several streets west of Times Square, right near our hotel, where we found an abundance of great eateries. We settled on what I like to call "contemporary European" - which basically means I wasn't paying enough attention, and that the food was reminiscent of various cultures but not specific to one. Whatever. The three glasses of Sauv Blanc made me happy.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us up to date with my New York adventures thus far! Hoping you're all enjoying my words and are forgiving my typos and grammatical errors... although I strive to proof read and pick them up before too many people notice.
"A perfectionist...?", you say? Maybe.
We lined up and got tickets to go to Ellis Island, but a 1-hour line for the ferry itself deterred us (might come back another day) and so we walked up toward Wall Street for some lunch and derivatives trading. After breaking even, it was on to SoHo for a brief "shopping preview" - which actually means Dave was tired and said "Prue let's go home, we can come back another day." I'm always one to emphasise the silver lining.
Dinner turned out to be a rewarding exploration of the several streets west of Times Square, right near our hotel, where we found an abundance of great eateries. We settled on what I like to call "contemporary European" - which basically means I wasn't paying enough attention, and that the food was reminiscent of various cultures but not specific to one. Whatever. The three glasses of Sauv Blanc made me happy.And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us up to date with my New York adventures thus far! Hoping you're all enjoying my words and are forgiving my typos and grammatical errors... although I strive to proof read and pick them up before too many people notice.
"A perfectionist...?", you say? Maybe.
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