Tour Bus Trip

Since Mark is in conferences all day (Mu-ha-ha-ha! Evil Laugh!)I decided to take a tour bus around NY. Unfortunately, it was wet, cold, and foggy, so I did not take any pictures:
Look, here's St Paul's cathedral in a down pour!
This is the John Lennon mosaic covered in muddy footprint!
You can almost make out the Statue of Liberty through the fog!

But I did have a good time, despite the weather. I learned a lot of facts (some of which might even be true) and saw a lot of things I didn't even know about.

Our cutie-pie tour guide (he once had a speaking part on an episode of Law and Order!) was really fun. He stayed with us the whole time. It wasn't one of the red bus tours where they drop you off and you catch the next bus when you are done. We all stayed together.

We saw Ground Zero, Wall Street, Trinity Church, as well as important places like Yoko Ono's apartment building. ;-) We also took the Statten Island Ferry out to Statten Island, then got right back on in the other direction, spending a total of three minutes there. You can't just ride back on the same boat for security reasons. I did take a picture of the Ferry Station, which has the words in large letters across the wall "We were very tired, we were very merry..." I took a picture for you, Mom.



In the evening, Mark and I were supposed to go to a shin-dig at the conference, but we played hooky and went to a play instead. Right outside our hotel is the TKIT office, where you can buy last minute tickets at discount prices. We would have liked to see Spamalot, but they only had one ticket left, so we decided on Rent instead, which was probably not the best choice. The production quality was far below that of the other plays we have seen.

Today I saw Avenue Q without Mark. That is possibly the funniest play I have ever ever seen. I highly recommend it. It is Sesame Street for adults.

I also did a little shopping and spent too much money, mostly on stuff for the kids, who don't need anything anyhow. But what's a little more clutter between family? Right?

We will be returning tomorrow (Sunday) and can't wait to be home.