August 29,1999
We had a great day today. We started by walking to the Empire State
Building via Macy's. We had not planned Macy's , but we were on 34th street and just
happened to see it. "Miracle on 34th Street" is my all time favorite movie
(original version B/W). Then we went on to the Empire State Building and took the tour to
the top (86th floor) the top-top (102st) was closed. After the ESB, we took a Taxi
to the world trade center. Funny they have a map on the back of the seat which clearly
marked our origination and destination as being a straight line down 6th street, but the
Taxi went backwards at one point and to the east coast of Manhattan, clearly the longest
possible route.
At the WTC, we went up to the 107 floor restaurant and had a light lunch.
Katie had a turkey club, water and coke. I had a Cobb salad & coke. It was $53. The
cokes (2 refills) were $16.80 alone. NYC sure is expensive. After lunch we walked to
Chinatown, then Little Italy and Greenwich Village. Katie did a little shopping which made
her happy.
From there we took the subway to Central Park. We walked around a little
then took a buggy ride around the park. It was nice to see a bit of the park without
having to walk around the whole thing. We then took a taxi back to the hotel, where we got
ready to go to the show.
Katie wanted to go to Beauty & the Beast, but b/c I wasn't sure about
our schedule, I decided to just wait until we were ready. As it turns out, they did not
have a Sunday evening show, so we went to "Tony n Tina's Wedding". It was a
riot, we had a good time. It was sort of like a real wedding and reception. We started at
a church and then walked about 2 blocks up a "restaurant". They did a open bar
and put on a good show, plus you got dinner too. It was really fun. I know Katie loved it
too. The crowd becomes part of the show. Katie danced and we sang. Would recommend it to
anyone. It might not be great for kids though.
That's about it for NYC, going to Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island in
the morning before leaving town.
