Shortly after we left, we stopped in Great Barrington at the Guthrie Center. There was a woman there that mentioned something about marriage vows. Really? Tom thought he had done that once. She persisted, so when we left, she came with us. Tom was humming a song about Alice's Restaurant. She was a keeper😉
After leaving Great Barrington, the ride into the city was quite peaceful. We followed the Taconic State Parkway, feeding onto the FDR Drive on the east side of Manhattan. Did I say peaceful...we are in the city now.
We finally checked into the Soldier's, Sailor's, Marines, and Airman's Club. It turned out to be a great banf for the buck. Bed's were reasonable, and the AC worked, as well as the car horns that you could hear well into the morning hours. What more could you ask for the city.
Arriving reasonable early before they started rolling up the sidewalks, we decided to stretch our legs. We walked down Lexington Ave until we got to Grand Central Station on 42nd St. Senior citizen tickets were available at $2.75 for round trip tickets but they would only sell you one set at a time.
After a while, we decided to head North for a few streets which landed us up in Rockefeller Center. The streets were packed, being a Friday afternoon and all with lots of tourists n the area. There was no skating in the rink but you could go down to the tables were and enjoy some expensive vittles. The area looks much smaller that on the TV.
In the upper right background is a toy store...FAO Schwarz. We couldn't find any pots and pans and there no wooden spoons either. We did find Grammie.
From here we headed to Times Square
Today was a sightseeing day and was crowded.
Plenty of advertising everywhere.
I know that taking a school group to a large city can be a little bit much...but this seemed insane. They even got in a group picture in spite of the crowd.
We enjoyed an evening meal at an Irish Pub and decided to call it a day.
