We have been a bit slack with photo taking so here is one of B in Central Park the other day... How pretty!
And here I am in Battery Park. We went for a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, but unfortunately it was all enclosed because of the weather so we didn't get any good Statue photos. So you get me instead.
Sunday we went for a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge and into DUMBO which is the area of Brooklyn between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. It was nice and quiet, lovely to escape the hustle and bustle. The city has been especially busy because of Thanksgiving weekend.
We wandered around and stumbled upon a show of Hamlet played by marionettes. Sort of. It was a bit more like actors running around playing Hamlet while carrying puppets, but oh well, it didn't really make up for our Broadway show being cancelled...
Then we ate pizza at Grimaldi's which is supposedly the best pizza in New York. It was yum.
This is the Brooklyn Bridge by night.
There's lots of other things we've done. We went on a Hip Hop Tour of Harlem and the Bronx which was interesting. It was led by a guy named Grandmaster Caz who wrote some of the rhymes for Rappers Delight. He was quite bitter about the fact that he has never been paid any money for it, but still he was entertaining and it was a good way to see these areas and imagine what they were like back in the 70s and 80s.
Today we went to MoMA and to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes. We figured it would be fun since we missed out on seeing a musical. It was pretty corny, but fun. And it has huge amounts of money put in to it. It had a 3D movie, real fireworks, falling snow, live animals (sheep, camels,a donkey!), a life size double decker bus, and the sets were amazing! They do 3 shows a day and most sell out, so I guess they can afford it.
Anyway, I could go on forever but I might only be entertaining myself, so I'll stop now.
See you in Helsinki!
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