Because of the difficulty of predicting the weather on this trip (rain to sunshine to rain could occur within a half-hour period), we decided to cancelled the planned trip to the CBS Morning Show in lieu of a little extra sleep and freeing up the entire morning for our free day.
By it’s nature, the free day is impossible to fully explain since every student and parent has a different experience in the city. Today’s activities included trips to various museums, lots of shopping, several different Broadway shows (Little Mermaid, Legally Blonde, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), delicious meals, tours of NBC Studios and even tickets to a Yankee game for a few of us.
Students had a wide variety of stories of their day, and all seemed pretty well satisfied with their accomplishments.
This morning we left the Hotel just after 9, and headed to the City Hall/Brooklyn Bridge Subway station (an N,R,W train to Union Park with a transfer to the 4,5, or 6 train away from our Hotel at 47th Street) for a nice walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The trek was a bit chilly as the winds were heavy and the air dense because of an impending rain storm. The crossing was pleasant, and as we entered Brooklyn we weaved our way around the DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) area to Jacques Torres for some candy and some extraordinary hot chocolates (the expresso was nice too, but I try not to encourage MS girls from getting into the expresso habit)
Next we headed toward the Fulton Street Landing where our favorite ice cream shop usually helps cool us off a bit (we didn’t really need cooling today, but we were looking forward to the bathrooms at the ice cream shop), but found it closed instead. On the deck near the shop was an amazing display from the people at telectroscope.org with a fibre optic link between the Tower Bridge in London, and us at the
Brooklyn Bridge. The students stood at what is essentially a giant camera shutter while looking at a live image of people doing the same on the other side of the pond. Both groups wrote messages to each other on whiteboards (all pleasant I might add) and wondered at the oddness of the whole idea. Local media was there in droves (it was the first day of the exhibit and today will also mark the celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the Bridge’s completion (I would like to say that I planned that, but it just happened to be the day that we put for the crossing)
We next made the trek to the subway station and caught an A train to 14th Street, where we transferred to a D train, and then transferred again at 34th onto an N, R, W train, which then dropped us right back at our hotel.
Everyone then had almost 2 hours to enjoy just a little extra time around Time Square, and get a meal before we caught our bus out to LaGuardia. Currently our flight is delayed one hour, hopefully we will be getting out of here soon.
NY 1 Article on Brooklyn Bridge Celebration.
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