Last Day in NYC waiting for Aer Lingus

Packing day. We also went down to the South Seaport on our way to Ground Zero. Thought of Dad with the tall ships. I remember the pictures from his time with the merchant marines and the pictures of the ships.

Today was another HOT day. We stopped at an Irish/American pub to cool off. Second Irish pub in as many days.

Of course Gound Zero was packed. To go up into the Observation Deck cost $37. We were starting to run short on time so we headed back to our hotel to retrieve our bags and call Uber. Yes we chickened out carrying our bags blocks through New York,  down the subway stairs ont to multiple trains...

We are now at our gate, have switched our phones for International use WE HOPE! Met 2 women in the trip. 1 woman's cab/car was rear ended another is having trouble getting her pap (sp) machine through. What csn I say...

Busman's Holiday and Mario Bateli

Thursday we decided it wasn't that fun doing the shows so we did not go to Stephen Colbert. Especially when we read we had to be there at 1:15 to get the "Real" tickets and then back at 3:30...

So we went to the library! We even spent some time in the genealogy dept.

We then went Grenwich Village.  Hit our first Starbucks. Mostly because we knew we could sit, connect to wifi and figure out what to do next. We headed toward Washington  Square. Found a Modells sport store closing. Carrie resisted buying a Mets Harvey t-shirt. I got some socks in my ever quest to keep my feet from hurting😐

We found Mario's Babbo restaurant.  We actually got in!  We split everything we had so we could taste everything.

We had Pasta!  Big surprise for us. The first pasta was a special of the day  ravioli with asparagus. The second we had was spaghetti with lobster --it said it was 1 lb. But that must have included the shell.

I had a white wine, Carrie a red. I really need to brush up on my Italian wines. Both nights had them and I had no idea what they were.

For dessert we had 5 cheeses with a different sweet sauce. One had a yummy butterscotch sauce Loved it! The last one had bacon -- can't go wrong with BACON.

we left there with the intention of going to the Comedy Cellar. All the shows were sold out. The Cafe Wha? Was just a few doors down so we went for live music instead.

My last post is stuck in "Saving" hell so I will not had so many pictures to this one.

When in Rome (or Chinatown)

ShLast night we had dinner at Joe's Shanghai.  It was good. We  had the soup dumplings -- crab and pork and Shanghai  Fried flat noodles. Which were not fried or flat!

I made it all the way through with chopsticks and a spoon.  Or did I? Judging from the front of my shirt...

New York, New York

In our room in Chinatown. I see Dim Sum in our future!

The AirTrian was easy and fast from Newark. As we came out of Penn Station, there was the Affinia Hotel where we stayed last time. We went over there and caught a cab (the doorman helped us😎)

Now do we have the energy to go to dinner?

1st Sports Pub

We haven't even left Seattle  but this restaurant is located right next to our gate AND the bathrooms!  And they hsve great music playing lots of local  bands. Carrie called them "deep cuts" aka not just the most popular songs.

I so LOVE TSA Pre check. I was surprised at how long the lines were at 6 am.

A big thank you to Mike for driving us to the airport.

Yeah ending with Springsteen! I can hear him and Little Steven together on one mic.

Carrie just commented that this was our first trip that wasn't a crochet trip!  WHAT?!?

25 minute delay for our flight.  More time to drink coffee!

Itinerary -- Need to Pack!

This is the sign on my computer at work!  I think I have all of the stuff I need to pack -- I am sure too much!  I have contacted my cousin who is studying at Trinity College in Dublin, sent all the details of the trip to our family.

Made copies of my passport -- Thank You Carrie, I had missed that in our instructions!  Our flight leaves SeaTac at 8:15 tomorrow am.  I think we have met just about everyone who will be on the tour with us.  They all sound like fun people.

Test photo

Photo of one of the afghans for Project Linus

New Crochet Adventure

I am setting up my blog to post entries while visiting New York and Ireland.

Carrie and I will be taking a crochet tour through crafttours.com. If you would like to follow our adventures, you should be able to subscribe to the blog.

Beginning Crochet | King County Library System | BiblioCommons

Beginning Crochet | King County Library System | BiblioCommons

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