WE ARE THERE

Well, we made it to New York....here is what I wrote really, really early.

Day 1....sort of

4:20 A.M. and I cannot sleep so I might as well update everyone on the plan of the day. I think we are somewhere over Ohio about now, but really, I just know that we are in the air for about two hours more.

Before we left LAX I had a talk with Mitch (our TD) and he informed me that the other group would not be arriving until about 6 P.M. so we would have a great deal of freedom today to see the city as a much smaller group. The ideas for that have been flooding my head. Since it is raining (or it is supposed to be all day Saturday) in NYC I was thinking about some activities that could move us indoors a bit.

I still like breakfast at Grand Central Terminal. That always sets such a nice tone for the first day, and with the addition of the store my wife and I discovered last summer, it could really be something extraordinary.

Breakfast at GCT was nice, but the store didn't open until 10 A.M. and we were just too early.

After that I am thinking about a trip down to the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum on 20th at Broadway. To those who haven’t been there, that may sound a bit odd, but it really is a wonderful slice of what NYC was like in the 1800s and early 1900s.

We did it, and except for being very tired, everyone said they enjoyed it.

If the rain lets up we will have to see about a trip to Ground Zero, and maybe across the Brooklyn Bridge (always a good thing to do before everyone’s feet get too tired). It might be a little to wet for ice cream at the bridge, so maybe we will go get some hot chocolate at Jacque Torres.

That just didn't happen. By the time we were finished with the TR House it was nearly lunch time, so we headed down to Bleecker Street in the Village where we ate quite a variety of foods...after lunch, we headed back to the hotel where some rested and others cleaned up.


The students are all pretty much asleep right now (they will be happy for that later today).

Apparently dinner is scheduled at a new place (for EF tours) down in China Town...I will report on that after we try it out. China Town on night one is a good way to fully make clear to the students that we are really not in Apple Valley anymore.
It was very good, but the students ate pretty quickly, and then shopped for a little while on Canal Street.


A group of us made the trip up to the Apple Store at 59th and 5th, and we just returned to the hotel.

Here is the link to the Time Square Webcam

If you check the archive at about 9:30 P.M. you will see some of the ladies in Time Square.