Sheraton Manhattan Hotel New York City

16 September 2009

Okie dokie. I told you all I would start a blog to document my big, pointless, post-grad adventure to Ireland, so here it is. Since both the act of traveling to Europe and that of setting up a blog seem to be the new acts of "getting a job" and “setting up a direct deposit bank account” for the college grads of 2009 who didn't go to law school, I figure I should get going with this blog thing, being that I’m ...

... to meet someone in HK and fly with them but it will be a painful 31hours of continuous travel. Fortunately I have a 2 hour connection in HK and 3 hour connection in Singapore. It would have been a lot easier to simply fly 12 hours directly to Dubai, but...

It is summertime in NYC but is unseasonably cool, mostly has been only in the 70's, so pretty nice.

... remnant of a Village Green that was the scene of the famous Election of 1733 which raised issues of Freedom of Religion and ...

... bloom, but the tulips were as well! There were so many different varieties and colors of tulips at the BBG, more than I've ever seen! After we checked out the rest of the gardens, we left realizing that it was the greatest botanical gardens that either of us have ever visited! We walked back to the subway and back to Greenwich Village for some lunch. When we walked up from underground, it was suddenly a beautiful ...

... Square (which where we stayed), The Empire State Building, The World Trade Center site, Central Park, The Statue of Liberty (from a distance), and all the quirky neighborhoods in between. Matt took me to see The Lion King on broadway for our second anniversary. The play was wonderful! We hung out in ...

So Monday I went to Queens and I found the Irish centre which was amazing... it was a bit over symplistic but I am promised we will move on to some reels and jigs next time. Tuesday I headed to the museum to watch the monthly star show..... however I read the advert wrong and had the wrong day... you win some you loose some I guess.... Today was quite exciting... I headed to a place called the Cooper Union to see a free lecture by Oliver Sacks ...

... we had a cheap lunch. Steven had still not flushed his cold. When we got back to the hotel he wasn't looking the best, but insisted we go to see tonight's show, In The Heights. We ate an early dinner in our room and got to the theatre with plenty of time before the show. The set was spectacular, a reproduction of the street near the 181st street subway station entrance, in Washington Heights. On seeing the set my expectations slowly grew. Just before the show began a ...

Hi, We landed in New York to surprisingly mild weather.....but it was not to last. After a bit of difficulty, due to the amount of luggage we have, we finally made it to Jonathan's brother's house in New Rochelle, NY. As usual, it was so great to catch up with Stephen and Yael and their children Noam, Daniel and Eliana. We stayed with them for 5 nights and Ethan had a real ball with his cousins, particularly Eliana ...

... Young boy looking down hole where fountain briefly stopped going, yes, I was waiting for that shot, last, Seafarers memorial. Aug 20 next portion of trip.

... good.  First we started with three appetizers - chicken wings, nachos, and chips.  I didn't try the chicken wings since they're not my favorite, and the chips weren't very good.  They were fried and the plain ones were great, but some of them were covered in fresh blue cheese and it literally tasted like feet.  It's just not for me!  The nachos were really good, though.  They weren't the best I've ever had but they were good. As an entree I got the pulled pork ...