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August 9, 2004

New York, New York!

We are back from New York! What a wonderful weekend! We traveled by train, which was my very first domestic train trip. I love to fly, but the train was so hassle-free, I think we will always go by rail in the future.

We stayed at the Renaissance Time Square with   which was far and away the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in. The location was amazingly central, the staff were terrific and the room was very nice as well. Two thumbs up!

  and I headed to the American Museum of Natural History after settling in at the hotel but found we were running low on time and went for a beautiful walk through Central Park instead. I am now obsessed with Central Park. After wqalking for over an hour, we checked a map and found we had really only covered 1/5 of the grounds. HUGE!

The weather all weekend was perfection -- in the 70s, mostly clear blue skies with only the occasional cloud cover. Friday night we had dinner at Tao which was an incredible and over the top pan-asian restaurant. The best words I can think of to describe it would be to say, it's like P.F. Chang's older bother -- who does acid. We had an amazing meal with one of jordsd colleuges Y (who was a joy!).

Saturday was spent taking on all sorts of shows and exhibits at the AMNH, including 2 space shows in the Hayden Plantarium -- Passport to the Universe and The Search for Life: Are We Alone? Very Cool! We also took in the Bugs! IMAX movie and the Frogs, A Chorus of Color exhibit which was really neat. Then we hot-footed it across Central Park to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Where we spent an hour browsing in the three story gift shop. We were so short on time that we didn't even go into the museum proper!

That night we had a great Mexican meal and went to see the Manchurian Candidate, which was good but not great.

Sunday we breakfast as Maxie's Deli and off the St. Patrick's Cathedral for church, which was terrific, even though I was sitting behind a pillar.

In general it was a great trip! We will definitely be back. I am convinced that I could have stayed 2 weeks and not been able to do all the things I wanted to do, much less explored all the stuff that was POSSIBLE to do. We took a bunch of picture's which we will post as soon as Flounder get's the server back up.

Flounder surprised me with my early birthday present while we were in the city as well. This beautiful pair of earrings I was admiring at the Met. Isn't he the best?

Before we left on Friday I picked up the latest Thursday Next book Something Rotten. So far it is really wonderful (like all the other books!) here is a review. I love this series!

Quote of the Day:
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
-Epicurus

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