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OT: The trip to NYC

Hi Guys, I never got a chance to tell y'all what a great time I had in NYC! At about 5:30AM on the day we left, I got a call from DD telling me that a dear family friend was in hospital hooked up to machines because he had had a stroke. I had DH make reservations for me to go to Lizard Land on Friday after we returned. We got home LATE on Wednesday, I unpacked and did laundry on Thursday and the repacked and took off for PHX on Friday 29 January!!! Anyway, back to NYC. We arrived about 5:00PM and took a cab into the city. The hotel -- Mariott Marquis was right smack in the midst of Times Square ANd -- even mo'bettah -- our room looked right out onto Broadway! I got to see a lot of neat stuff that evening as we walked around and went to dinner at some fancy schmancy restaurant that served the most delicious rib eye steak starting at $40 a la cart 8-Q. The Pres. of the company bought dinner for everyone (there were 5 of us) and the men all had the steak -- I had a salad -- LOLOL! I caught the red, double decker GrayLine bus first thing Wednesday morning -- at about 10:00AM -- and spent the next 7 hours riding around Manhattan. I went up to the 80something floor of the Empire State Bldg. and took bunches of photos from all directions. I went to Ground Zero and took a few photos of the construction going on there. I got photos of the lovely church nearby -- is St. Peter's the name? Could be St. Paul or St. Patrick -- starts with a "P". I also got off at Battery Park and got some great shots of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. I got to drive up and down Madison Avenue, a bit of Wall Street, Park Avenue AND Tiffany's!!. I also got to see the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, United Nations Plaza, Rockefeller Center and loads of other neat stuff. I truly enjoyed the trip and the "quickie" tour. If I had another day, I would have done a harbour cruise and gone to see The Statue and Ellis Island. I *might* have gotten off the bus and walked along Park AVenue to look in the shop windows but since I could barely afford to breathe inside those shops, I wouldn't buy anything -- LOLOL! I was sorry I didn't have time to take any of the other Loop Tours -- I would like to have seen more of Central park and Uptown. I told DH that I would still like to go back at Christmas so that I could see the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center. We would just have to make sure we budgeted for the cost of the room -- at $385 per night

-- AAACCCKKKKK!!!!!!! I will tell him that when he travels from now on, he needs to stay at a Mariott so that he can get enough points to pay for at least one night :-). Anywhooooo -- I still highly recommend taking a GrayLine Tour whenever you are either pressed for time or have a ton of time. If you have a lot of time, taking the tour gives you a nice overview of the area and it lets you decide which things you would really like to go back to see. Also, all of the tours I have taken have been for TWO days of use so you really do get your money's worth. I had a wonderful time and it was just as I had imagined the trip would be. Long enough for me to "see" the things I was interested in and I didn't have to deal with the crowds and noise and traffic that I truly abhor! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary
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Just to make you a little jealous, I worked right on the next block to Tiffany and used to wander around there on my lunch hour when I had the time.

Lucille

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Lucille

It was quite exhausting just reading about your adventure. Glad you enoyed yourself Bruce

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Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkn

Sounds like a great time, TM!!!

I've been thinking about you with the tornado down there. Everything must be okay with you?

Joan

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Joan E.

At the airport that evening, the big boss asked me if I had shopped at Tiffany's. I told him I couldn't afford to breathe in the store let alone shop there -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary

Yep -- all is well here. I got home from Lizard Land on Saturday evening -- AFTER all of the hullabaloo. DH said there was golf ball sized hail here at the house and the sky was as dark as midnight for several hours. The worst tornado hit smack dab in the middle of Atlanta,damaged the roof of the GA Dome and took out most of the windows of the Equitable Bldg. Apparently the CNN Bldg. -- which houses the Weather Channel -- also had some damage. That's a good one -- the bldg. The Weather Channel is in suffers tornado damage!!! Lots of damage in several of the smaller towns outside of the city but not much up here. Apparently there was a tornado touchdown not too far from the house (maybe within 10 miles) but once it touched ground, it just sort of trickled off into nothing -- THANK HEAVENS! Thanks for thinking of MOI. If there had been any problems, you KNOW I would have been yelling about it -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary

And did you follow that up with a hint that DH needs a raise for you to shop there?

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Karen C in California

A friend of mine in the UK announced recently that her daughter had phoned to say that she had got engaged while on a trip to New York with her boyfriend. They have bought her engagement ring in Tiffanys!

Megwen

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Megwen Woodham

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