Saturday night in NYC
All dressed up and ready to go! I'd never changed outfits so much on a trip, except when Kevin and I were super duper dressed up for sailing to and from the UK, and then changed to hiking gear for marching along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales. And before that when we biked in Scotland and then sailed home, and that involved bike helmets and bike shorts and all that. Anyway, I've never owned a long skirt and I enjoyed wearing it quite a bit. It's breezy for sure. Mom always ready, and she didn't have to change. We were headed to the Imperial Theater, and I looked up restaurants between...
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The Met on Saturday in New York
When we got to the Met it was very crowded. The line was long, and I snuck a photo of these oddly-dressed young women. Mom tried to ask them if they were in a play, but they didn't speak English. I...
Saturday, June 20th in NYC
I woke up on our second day in the city with plans. Did I? Yes, I always have a plan. I believe I intended to go up to the Metropolitan and maybe the Frick and also Central Park, which is just about...
Quickly, the rest of the first day in NYC…
It was Friday, June 19th, and we'd breakfasted, we'd gelato'd, we'd walked a lot at the Little Island and the High Line, and I was in need of refreshment after all that walking. We'd managed to walk...
First Full Day in NYC!
Well, here are some of the photos from our first day - we were busy and of course I took more than one million pictures. Even though I've whittled them down to way less than a million, I still have...
Getting to New York…
Mom and I left for New York on Thursday, June 18th. Our plane didn't leave til the three in the afternoon so it was a leisurely drive to the St. Louis airport Or it would have been a leisurely...
Flooding the Zone,
which I'm reading is actually a political term, whereby someone does a whole bunch of different things in all directions in order to cause confusion. Well, that's not what flooding the zone means to...
Cue the Plague of Locusts…
That's what was going through my mind on Sunday morning. Actually, my first thought was "Are you f***king KIDDING me?" Because after all the stuff with Mom's surgery, and she's doing great, BTW, I...
OK then…
Yeah, where have I been? Well, for one thing, Mom and I got back from an impromptu trip to NYC, and we just got back on Tuesday. That's the Tuesday that we just had, June 23rd. We left for NYC on...
Hi there…
Whew, time continues to fly by, and now we're in May, although it feels a little bit like late March because suddenly it's a little bit chilly. A real roller coaster of weather we've been having...