Tales of the City, New York Version

Times Square at night never gets old.

An incredible brass, art deco door

We got home Sunday night about 10:00 p.m., just about a half hour delayed, and that was the only delay for the entire trip, which is pretty remarkable for air travel these days.  It was a great trip, start to finish.  Clay is a great travel planner.

The flight up was beautiful, in a smaller plane out of Charlottesville, on a flight path that followed the Chesapeake Bay.  We landed at LaGuardia and had our bags and were out of the airport within 15 minutes.  Stepping outside we were greeted with the same uncannily cool weather that Charlottesville was experiencing at the same time.  New York in August is typically hot, miserable, and smelly, but it was none of those things.  I felt like I was running up a huge karmic debt that would come due at any moment.

We packed a lot into four days.  We walked a lot, which is its own form of entertainment in New York City.

We walked up to the Museum of Natural History
and then walked back through Central Park.
I've never been to New York in better weather
and it was really incredible for August.

Silly New Yorkers erected this monument to
Sherman, America's first war criminal, at the
entrance to Central Park.  It had been removed
but only for cleaning and restoration.

A better Central Park memorial,
this one for John Lennon

When we were at the Museum of Natural
History on Friday, we learned that Teddy
Roosevelt's birthplace was in NYC so we visited
it on Saturday.  Very interesting place.

Holy Land: The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village

When we were walking downtown on Sunday we passed
the building where The Daily Show is produced.  The
huge sign on the side of the building, however, directs
people to the Hustler Club located on the same block.

This is one of two city dog parks we walked
by on Sunday.  There were a nice assortment
of dogs, including a rottie mix and a very
good looking senior shepherd.

Clay's brother Hugh won a Tony
as a producer of "Vanya and Sonia and
Masha and Spike" which won the Tony
for Best Play this year.  It is a great play
and I'm happy that someone is still making
theatre for adults instead of turning children's
stories and cartoons into Broadway musicals.

Clay with the Tony.
We saw 5 shows in four days:
"Once", "Vanya, etc.", "Kinky Boots",
"Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812",
and "Buyer & Cellar"

New dog bling.  The long red high heeled
boot is for Gigi.  The rest will probably
go to Maya since she's new.  Dog help me,
I nearly bought Gigi a string of pearls too.