The last couple of days

Tuesday

The forecast was for rain so we planned to go interstate - New Jersey. Jersytown was the destination, a big factory outlet, like DFO. A good decision in the end as there was big storms, high winds and heavy rain. Some trees blew down in our suburb, Astoria. There was heaps of shopping. Early Wednesday morning our font door alarm started sounding and not stopping. At 3.30 am I called the owner to come and fix it. Edgar was very z apologetic.

Wednesday

So we slept in because of the early morning problem. Headed in to Lower Manhatten at around lunchtime. The US Intrepid is moored here, as a naval museum. It is an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943. So there was heaps of history; 2 kamikaze attacks in WW2, wars all over the world, the lunar program etc. It displayed many different war planes in its hanger or on the deck - a Bluebird spy plane, Concord zz many different fighters, helicopters and Sophie and I got to lay in one of the Gemini capsules from the early '60s space race.

We also toured into a old nuclear armed submarine and best of all the Enterprise space shuttle is housed here - awesome. They closed down New York the day they flew it in. Coincidentally today is the day NASA has flown in another of the space shuttles to Los Angeles for permanent display. This took most of the day.

Early evening we wandered around NY, through Hells Gate to the edge of the theatre area of Times Square. We went for dinner to a great Restraunt called 'Talia'. After dinner we headed back home to Queens.

Hmmmm Worth a mention is that the World Congress is sitting this week, so there is a massive police presence. There are also marines in the stations and in the subway continued warnings about reporting any suspicious activity or concern.

Thursday

Linda and I wandered down to 30th street and grabbed some bagels for breakfast back at the apartment. Z We went over to Manhattan, and the Statue of Liberty - What a site. After the SoL we caught the ferry over to Ellis Island. There was one 40 year period where 17 million immirgrants arrived by boat to this island for processing before patriation into America.

After Ellis Island we caught a bus up to Central Park to gomto the American Museum of Natural History. They let us in for free because it closed in 90 minutes. We still had time to see what we wanted - the Dinosours! So, so z, cool. this is the museum where they filmed 'Night At The Museum'. Once the museum closed we grabbed a cab to Times Square and grabbed some tickets to a 7pm Broadway show. I didn't go, so I sat in a bar down the road and edited some photos and chatted to some new friends. Linda, Tony and Sophie saw 'Bring It On'.

After that they came to the bar and we had a meal and headed home.

 

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