"New York, New York, What a wonderful town..."

All through the day, the lyrics from ON THE TOWN played through my head. In fact, we found ourselves quoting certain lines from the movie.

We thought that we were busy in DC and that was true, but we not only walked but had to navigate our ways down the streets of a huge city where at first everything just looks like a big skysc

raper. Lucky for us, Randy had purchased for us tickets on the double decker tour bus and we were able to ride it down to the Statue of Liberty/ Ellis Island area. The tour guid

e was pretty funny and had lots of information to share on the bus as we passed buildings. Lines were not too big and we got onto the ferry boat in reasonable time.

When we hopped back on the tour bus, we had a different guide and he wasn't as funny. Our next stop was the United Nation. Very Impressive building with all the flags outside. The sculpture of a bent gun shaft was very symbolic of the purpose of the UN. From there were found some lunch and sat down. When we walked back to catch the next bus, we had to wait a long time. This time we had to sit on the bottom section and ride backwards which was not fun, so we opted to get off at the old Astor Hotel. This was super luxurious and the display of the old clock in the lobby was fabulous. A few blocks from there and we were at Rockerfeller Center. Riding the elevator to the top was stomach dropping. The elevator moved quickly and there was a light show on the ceiling of the comp

artment. From the viewing decks, the view was specacular. I think this was close to one of the tallest buildings. We could overlook Central Park on one side and Empire State Buidling on the other.

Once we descended, our decision was

to walk to Central Park to where John Lennon lived. What a gorgeous building! The decoration on the exterior was fabulou

s with iron work and decorated stones. Across the street was a park in Lennon's memory called Strawberry Field which had "Imagine" in a circular pattern on the walkway where people had placed flowers. One man played his guitar and sang. Others sat in silence on benches. One crazy guy kept turning on his boom box with CCR music and ticking people off.

On our walk back to Times Sq

uare we stopped at Carnigie Deli for dinner. The sandwiches were insanely huge! Meat was piled on 3-5 inches thick betweene two dinky slices of bread! Needless to say, we brought most of it home. We did however, save room for a slice of NY cheesecake from Lindy's. This gave us the energy to walk the long way back to catch the Path subway back to Jersey City. Our day started with leaving at 7:30am and ended with arriving back after 10pm. Sabrina was a trooper! We all quickly fell asleep!