Wednesday was our walking tour. We walked about a mile to the World Trade Center site. On the way we passed a political protest in City Hall Park. Several TV stations were there and we briefly saw Pat on the local NBC nightly news.
The World Trade Center site in undergoing full construction of the new buildings. Everything is still at below-ground-level. We are not sure what we expected to see, but we still got a feeling for the immensity of the tragedy.
From there we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. This is an historic bridge. Construction started in 1869. The main span is just short of 1600 feet and the total bridge is over one mile long. The walk across the bridge is fun, and quite picturesque. You can see Manhattan on one side and Brooklyn on the other, with the Statue of Liberty off in the distance. Our goal was to have Pizza in another famous NY pizza restaurant: Grimaldi's (http://www.grimaldis.com/brooklyn.htm). The pizza, was again great and the small crowded restaurant was quite an experience. We had walked over three miles, and decided to take the subway back to our hotel.
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge
Yesterday was our day to be in the Today show audience outside the studio. We got there about 6:15 AM and ended up getting a great spot. As most of you know Matt Lauer and, in this case Ann Curry (in Meredith's absence), come out and do part of the show in the square. The weather person (usually Al Roker) also does his report in the same area. The highlights of the event were Ann Curry coming over to Pat and giving her a kiss on the hand (I got a picture of the lipstick marks) AND the weather person briefly “interviewed” Pat and asked her about the picture of our family (we are told that they had a full screen shot of the photo!). We also go to see Hoda Cotb (not spelled the way you would think from the pronunciation), Natalie Morales, Donald Trump and Trace Adkins. We spent over two and a half hours in some pretty cold weather, but it was worth it.
At the Today Show (note Donald Trump and Trace Adkins at the far left)
We then did a walking touring of the Rockefeller Center and Times Square area and had lunch in a great NY style deli. One of the highlights of our tour, was a fun stop at the huge M&M candy store. We then took the subway back to the hotel.
Wednesday night we went to see Grease at the Brooks Atkinson theater. It was an absolutely great show. The winners of the TV reality show were the stars and they were fabulous. To top things off, were in the front row! The actors were often within two feet of us!
This morning we went to a highly rated Bistro type restaurant: Balthazar (http://www.balthazarny.com/). We had a great breakfast. The rest of today, we kind of cooled our jets.
Tomorrow we board the MS Noordam for our cruise to Bermuda.
That is all for this post.
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