New York City

Part one of our honeymoon is over. New York was a fabulous way to start it all off. We stayed at the Moderne which was only a few blocks off Broadway and Times Square.

 We checked out Times Square (which is even more impressive at night than during the day, think Vegas with so many lights and people).

We walked through a portion of Central Park on our way to the Guggenheim. Unfortunately, only two floors were open but it was neat to still go inside and see art I have only heard about like Monet and Picasso.

On our way to Greenwich, I chatted with two ladies about Slash and his sexy hair (well I just wanted to agree and make conversation) and I spoke with a young boy, planting the seed in his mind that Snape might not be as evil as he seems and he just might be a good guy trying to protect Harry.

Greenwich and Chelsea resulted in Alec getting a few looks. Luckily as his new wife, it wasn’t women I had to beat off him, just a few cute New Yorker boys.

While wandering in the area, we discovered the H Line quite by accident and strolled along there for a while taking in the gorgeous sun and scenery. The H Line consists of raised tracks which were to be ripped out but the local communities decided to rehabilitate the area, well it turned out quite well.

In the midst of all our walking, we opted for a 90 minute boat ride on a boat called The Mahattan. I found a deal for a 90 minute ride with a free glass of champagne, beer or wine for $18 on Goldstar.com. (this works for a lot of cities). What a great way to see the city skyline. We rode under the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. We got a fabulous view of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and enjoyed a couple glasses of New York Sparkling Wine and local beer.

Other points of excitement included the MTV Music Awards (which we tried to detour around due to the chaos of teenie boppers screaming at each introduction of some famous person Alec had no idea of), waiting for Barak Obama to show up outside of the Federal Hall (which Alec just informed me is where George Washington was inaugurated), swinging by Grand Central Station (and then seeing it again in the movie on the plane).

And oddly what, for me, was a nice pleasant surprise of realizing my favourite camera equipment provider, B & H, was actually located in New York City, and where I proceeded to spend a few precious dollars on a camera bag with integrated laptop bag, a new wide angle lens, a filter and a new battery. It was like going to Santa’s workshop and seeing how he got all those toys out and delivered all over the world. That store is a machine! There is someone available to answer questions every few feet. And you don’t have to carry any of your purchases until after you purchased them. You decide what you want, a work order is placed and somewhere in the back there is some guy who looks up the product, places it in a green bin and that green bin ends up behind the check out counter. Bloody awesome.

So in short, our trip to New York was quite fun. We had a bagel and Papaya King hot dog. We rode the subway and visited the World Trade Towers Memorial area. I even left an account of where I was when the towers were hit.

Next up is Bruges, which we ended up extending our trip a day longer there due to the generous hospitality of Frederik’s uncle and aunt.

Until next time …

Corinne