Saturday, September 6, 2008

Day 3

Up early and out walking down to 5th Ave and to Rockefeller centre where we went to the concourse below the buildings for a small breakfast and to do some people watching which they say is New York's favourite sport. We did a bit of shopping but found everything was so expensive if you could even find the kind of store you were looking for....Next we took the subway to Yankee Stadium for our 1 o'clock tour....We spent lots of time in the gift shop as it was cool,Harvey bought a T shirt.....
The tour was very informative as we went to the press box and heard lots of Yankee stories and also to the dug out where we sat and heard more stories and then to the dressing room where we were not able to take pictures but saw the tiny area that each Yankee had to get changed in and the story of one Yankee (Monson) who when he died ..his spot was never used again and is never used for storage. The subway back and the walk home doing a bit more touristy shopping.....
We did not have much time to get changed and walk the 8 blocks for supper at "Whym"
We had an excellent supper of chicken pot pie that they are famous for and the special of Maki Maki on sweet potatoe and the appetizer of ginger shrimp dumplings
Harvey and I have shared each thing we order so we get to try more things....
Then another walk to Lincoln Centre for "South Pacific" Wow another fabulous show which was a bit in the round so often the actors were only 6 feet from us. We had great seats only 4 rows for front. We taxied home and to bed by midnight.

Today our last day we walked a great distance but taxi home as a big parade was going down 5th Ave and we had no idea how to get across. All the side streets were packed with floats to get onto the parade route too
We are now to check out and hope that Hurricane Hanna aftermath does not keep us from flying tonight. It does not sound good right now but hopefully it will miss this area.....

1 comment:

  1. Hope you have a safe trip home and will talk to you in a couple of days
    Mary Ann

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