Another fabulous day in NYC! The weatherman was wrong yet again and it was another hot, stunningly blue sky day.
I’m thinking that if Queensland Rail have an office in NYC, I’m applying for a transfer.
I’m sorry to say that I won’t be referencing Jack Reacher in the blog any more. I’ve been advised that “he’s not a real person”.
Unbelievable!
I know that he’s real because he’s been riding the 6 train, the Lexington Avenue local, heading uptown towards Grand Central Station. I’m pretty sure that I’ve been on the very same train.
I think that I made a serious error in judgement by reporting on yesterday’s vital statistics. I didn’t think that TOTIL read the blog, but it appears that she does … and so I’ve pointed out that we consumed more donuts yesterday than we should have.
I was advised this morning that we need to be a bit healthier today … and that didn’t end well because the salad we had was contaminated. I’ll tell you more about that sad story later.
Last night we went to town and saw a show on Broadway. Fabulous! We saw The Carol King Story, and it was just amazing.
It was a really late night last night. We were on the 10.30ish train out of the city and got off at our local station just before 11.00pm … along with maybe 50 or 60 other people. It was as busy as … well, you know.
By the time I’d finished off the blog, showered, read a little more of the latest Jack Reacher biography that I’m reading, it was almost 1.00am … probably about the time that those living on the eastern side of Australia were thinking about having their afternoon coffee.
So I was a little weary this morning. We didn’t get going until a bit after 9.30am.
We played subway ninjas again today, and rode the train uptown to 34th Street Penn. Station and did the Madison Square Garden “All Access Tour”. Fabulous!
We got to see all aspects of the venue, including the corporate suites, the bridge, and the player’s dressing rooms. They have just laid down the ice for the season’s ice hockey.
I was a little puzzled by the fact that the NY Rangers and the NY Knicks have their dressing rooms right next to each other – I would have thought that opposing teams’ dressing rooms would have been at opposite ends of the venue.
I’m glad that I didn’t ask that question out loud though, because apparently one is an ice hockey team and the other a basketball team, so they are unlikely to ever be playing each other, or at the same time.
Oh well, I can’t be expected to know everything!
After the tour, we went up a few blocks to the Empire State Building and booked our passes for later in the day.
It appears that I was wrong yesterday when I said we had been to Macys … I’ve become confused. Sorry 🙁
We went to Macys today. There were two key reasons for going to Macys … one because we could, and secondly because we needed a bathroom break.
Once again, gender inequality exists in NYC because ladies rest rooms can be found on levels 2,4 and 7, while men’s rest rooms are only located on level 9. And you need a map to find them.
So back to my story of the contaminated salad. TOTIL decided that we needed to be healthy today and that she felt like a salad for lunch, so we bought a salad at the cafeteria at Macys. We figured it was the least that we could do considering that we had used their rest rooms.
While I was off at the men’s, TOTIL bought the salad and a coffee. It had been hours since my last coffee and I was getting a caffeine withdrawal headache. Sad, I know.
We’ve had a bit of a bad trot with food lately. We had been buying 1/2 gallon cartons of milk from the local store, and recently I bought a full gallon – almost 4 litres of milk in one huge container.
And it was off.
Hardly surprising because it had a use by date of 09/12 – December last year!
So we tipped it all out and went back to 1/2 gallon containers.
And now we had a contaminated salad! There was cucumber in it!
Clearly a serious lack of quality control in the Macy’s food preparation department. When I get to Heaven, I’m going to be asking for an explaination for cucumber.
After lunch, we headed further uptown that we’ve ever been before – all the way up to 81st Street for a bike tour of Central Park. Fabulous!
It was diabolically hot in the park. We rode 10.00km … plus the 19450 steps that I walked today (a new record, I should add) so we got lots of exercise to burn off that salad that we had for lunch 🙁
After the bike ride, we caught the subway back downtown to have a look at Trump Tower. Pretty impressive building but some serious security going on … NYPD with semi-automatic assault weapons at the door, more NYPD lingering around outside, and then even more with scanners inside the building.
After that it was off to the Empire State Building and we got another eyeful of NYC from on top of the world. Fabulous!.
NYC is just an amazing place! My words will never do it justice because I can’t describe it, and the pictures will never do it justice either.
By this time we were both pretty wrecked, but we had planned to walk the Brooklyn Bridge this afternoon. We didn’t want to put it off because the weatherman is forecasting storms tomorrow, and by the law of averages he has to get it right eventually.
So we hopped the subway again to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall and walked over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Fabulous!
How do you end day like that? By having world famous Grimaldis Pizza and sitting under the Brooklyn Bridge at dusk. Fabulous.
Pizza was absolutely amazing and I’ll never be able to eat Domino’s again.
Another subway ride home, coffee, shower and I’ll be ready for bed very soon.
Oh … the title of today’s post … i suppose I should explain it.
If you recognised the words, you’ll know that it is the opening line to the Seasame Street song.
Below is a picture of the Brownstone that we are living at in downtown Brooklyn. Someone suggested recently that it looks like the place where Bert and Ernie live. I’m pretty sure that it’s not, because Jon and his wife live upstairs and we have met them.
Maybe B&E live next door though …?
All for now.
Ciao
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