WEEK 2

Monday, Empire State Building with Tom on a cold but clear day.  Our first few days we experienced unfashionable warm days but now Autumn is definitely tending towards Winter and there is even talk of snow during the week.  While we are up there a security guard approaches Tom and asks about his short.  after Tom shows him he breaks into a smile and approves. I'm relieved.  There is a lot of security around New York,  as you would imagine.
Rob has done the Whitney, we met up near the Rockefeller ice rink and meander a bit before heading home to have a bit of a rest. We are dining out tonight,  at Red Rooster in Harlem. Now this isn't anything like Red Rooster in Australia but a restaurant famed for its menu ... soul food and where  Barack Obama ate once. Great cornbread,  fried green tomatoes, chicken wings,  roast chicken (Rob) and chatted fish (me) are so good that we are truly sorry that we simply cannot eat dessert .

 Tuesday we have tickets for the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island so we head off to get there at the appointed time.  have I learned nothing from the Empire State experience? Apparently not,  so we join the queue and take about half an hour or more to get on the boat.  I think they want everyone to experience steerage as so many stand cheek by jowl for the trip.  We are skipping walking around the statue and head for the more interesting Ellis Island where so many migrants entered the States.  It is beautifully restored and has some very interesting exhibitions, to say the least.
Theatre this week ... Tuesday OH HELLO , Wednesday SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (where Jake Gyllenhaal excels as George), Wednesday  night IMPROV COMEDY at Insurgent Citizens Brigade, Thursday SOMETHING ROTTEN,  Friday we switch to sport - basketball at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.  We have Tom to thank for some of these, and I thank him for waking us out of our complacency and getting us out more than we might have otherwise. I also thank him for the night walk along the High Line and joining me on a rainy day on a walking tour of Williamsburg, Brooklyn (and bringing an umbrella).
We shall miss him on our last couple of days here. He gets home after us.

Random night scene in town

High Line at night