I heart New York

OK, we're home now and I will post and put up a couple of pictures while I am still enthusiastic. As I was saying, yesterday we went to the lower east side to the tenement museum. On the subway! The museum was amazing. How it works is that the organization bought an old condemned tenement that had been abandoned for 60 years and restored some of it. So you choose which of various guided tours you want to take. We only had time for one but it was so good. Then Geoff, Anne and I walked to Battery Park to take the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Jude left us and walked around Greenwich Village. I'm glad we walked because we went through Chinatown and Little Italy plus past the courthouse (and saw the steps that lawyers are always walking up on TV shows). We made the last ferry to the statue then took a bus back to the hotel where Helena was waiting for us. Out for supper, then Helena went to the airport and Anne to the train station to go home. We were up very early today, Jude had arranged for a limo to the airport which turned out to be a stretch limo. With champagne glasses in the back and all. So two firsts on this trip - a driver waiting for us in Hartford with our name on a card, and a stretch limo.
Geoff is not as taken with NY as I am but still says he would like to see more. Oh yes, we went to see Jersey Boys (great) and a play called Good People with Frances MacDormand (also great).
But it is nice to be home and to have a day before work starts again.
Pictures: Top, Times Square: middle, Badgers walking; bottom, obvious.