Another
early morning in New York (we never slept in at all there was just too
much to see) this time we got up and hailed our first cab of the
trip. We took it down to Ground Zero which was a very emotional
experience. I actually got more choked up looking down the streets
around the site than the site itself. Seeing how narrow the
streets and how tall the buildings were in person I could visualize what
it must have been like to see the billowing debris coming down the
streets.
I had to go back to the hotel and get ready for the Marilyn exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. While I was off on my Marilyn adventure the rest of my group went for a carriage ride in Central Park. The exhibit itself was wonderful I didn't expect it to be so big. There were many photos I had never seen before. The best part was getting to meet my MM friends in person. Suzie's show was wonderful and she was such a trooper to go on when she had laryngitis (www.marilynmonroetribute.com) . It was a special treat to ride with her back to the hotel. I felt like I was literally sitting with Marilyn Monroe. I met back up with my girls around 4pm and we proceeded to have happy hour in our room until 8pm! We went for dinner at Virgil's and the food was delicious. A really good tip that worked was to go for dinner after 8pm because the restaurants emptied out with the theatre crowd and there wasn't much of a wait. The frozen apple martini was yummy. The absolute topper for our trip was catching Denzel Washington leaving the theatre where he was starring in Julius Caesar!!!!!! Sam and Janet both got autographs. I was too busy talking photos. We walked back through times square for the last time and hit the sack at 1:30am (our latest evening the whole trip). SUNDAY - I don't have a separate page for Sunday because we basically got up and headed to the airport. I let the hotel arrange our transportation since I wasn't impressed with Carmel. Our ride was waiting for us at 9:30 am (a really nice SUV with leather interior - I was very pleased). There was no delay coming home, we arrived in Toronto at 1:30 pm. |