I’m writing this from O’Hare, where John and I are eating very lovely, small desserts in the lounge, waiting for our flight to Dublin then London. It’s almost sunset and the reflective surfaces of airport buildings out the window are glowing. But this post is about my last trip – to NYC with the Mathews and Hooper group to see Maddie sing at Carnegie Hall!
We flew in during the afternoon and got settled in our hotel, and I set out to find a dry cleaner (toothpaste on black silk shirt – disaster). All over Chelsea people were watching the Germany Ecuador game on outside TVs.
Later, we went to dinner at a very nice place called ‘Jack’s Wife Frieda’.
Friday morning we had breakfast at the hotel then Debbie and I went for a walk on the high line and to Little Island.
This is the view from the hotel at night – not the room my mom and I were in on the second floor but I think the 8th floor. For more reading on the Plensa sculpture , see here: https://waterssouljc.com/.
After the walk, we regrouped at the hotel and my mom and I took an uber to the Tenement House Museum. We were early so stopped for a chai at a really nice tea shop nearby.
I didn’t take photos on the museum tour, but it was really great. A guide took us through the basement floor of the tenement house building and told us all about the German family who ran a bar there in the 1850s. Then he talked about the other families who ran businesses there since and about the strength of immigrants to serve their communities. Really great tour!
We went for lunch nearby then took a bus to the east river ferry pier at 34th street. Then we took the ferry as a sight seeing tour under the wonderful Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges to the 9/11 pier downtown. I really recommend sightseeing by NYC ferry. Cool breezes and great views!
It was a short walk from the 9/11 pier to Wall Street, where we saw the NYSE building and The Fearless Girl sculpture.
Then another short walk (but short walks really add up!) to the 9/11 memorial, where Debbie, Jeff and Jackie had been doing some sightseeing.
Realizing I need to explain why maddie hasn’t been spotted yet – she was also in NY but a with her choir group doing a combination of practicing every morning for hours (!) and fun things in the afternoons (they saw the show Wicked and got to meet the cast!)
We took the subway back to Chelsea and collapsed in the hotel lobby.
Then after a rest break we had some dinner and headed over to the high line again, this time toward the Whitney museum. Sunset and the view was beautiful from there!
Big day and we walked out feet off but lots of fun!
Looks like fun!