The photo I took last night, is of the Manhattan skyline and ironically, The Empire State Building! ..... Well, change of pace for today's activities. We left our hotel about 9am and walked to the Empire State Building, planning on an early visit to check out the view. That was not meant to be! We found ourselves in the midst of the shooting that you may have heard about in the news and I mean in the midst!! Today we were blessed!!! It's a very long and unbeliev...

Sooooo cool!!! :-)

Lady Liberty lit up!! :-)

What an amazing day....... We started off with the morning in Central Park, being chauffeured around in a rickshaw. That way we got to see lots and heard all the stories. Allegedly, the fountain in our photo is the one from the 'Friends' opening credits!!!! That was wonderful!! From there we wandered back to Times Square for a coffee and some New York Cheesecake (of course) and then a stroll to Macy*s for a bit of a look!!! After some tarting up time we had a c...

As anticipated we had a much better finish to the day than the start!! Our quiet afternoon in the hotel bar with our new friends from Long Island was a welcome escape from the morning's escapades, and then our night at Jersey Boys was fantastic!! ... a great show, slick and sooo well done - loved it!!! Time to finish packing now so that we're ready for our 8:05am Amtrak train to Washington in the morning!! Hope all is well at home. We are still counting our bless...