We had a wonderful day in the city on Halloween Day of Sunday, October 31.
We had a little confusion with the clocks. Keith made the assumption that we should set the clocks back for one hour, as it was time to go from daylight savings time to standard time. He set the clock back one hour before we went to sleep on Saturday evening. When we arrived to breakfast at around the time they open the doors we were surprised to see so many others already eating. Were they up so early because it was Halloween? Was someone playing a trick in terms of the opening hours? We quickly learned that the answer was that we don’t change the clocks until next Sunday, November 7. J
Once again, we enjoyed a very nice breakfast in the hotel lounge that has a nice variety of breakfast items. We each had oatmeal, fresh fruit and lots of coffee to recharge those energizer batteries that move us all around. While we didn’t have the bagels, they looked great and in our opinion New York does have the best bagels of anywhere in the United States.
We are enjoying the relatively small size of this hotel and the friendliness of the staff and the guests. We hadn’t mentioned that on our first night that our room was off the main street and it was a little too noisy for us. Anne Marie used earplugs, which helped, but Keith prefers not to use them. On Saturday morning, we asked if another room was available similar to the location that we had the last time we were here and sure enough they found us another room whose window does not face the street. They worked very hard to get the room ready for us after the previous occupants checked out and in not time we were moved to the new room. It was very quiet as we knew it would be .
We walked around for a little in the morning and then stopped by a store at Times Square and Keith picked up a shirt for his favorite baseball team; The New York Yankees. We then met Keith’s brother, and our sister in law, her mother and our niece and nephew for lunch at a very nice restaurant called Le Rivage, which first opened in 1984. It is located on restaurant row along with several other restaurants that do a very nice business from those who go to the theater. We enjoyed a wonderful meal with lots of great conversation. We each had salmon and we know what you are thinking. If we keep this up we will each turn into a salmon. After lunch we saw the afternoon matinee of Jersey Boys. We had hoped to see this performance when we were last in the city but waited too long to order tickets. This time we ordered tickets several months ago and we had very nice seats. The show was just outstanding.
After the performance we walked over to a party that was hosted by very nice friends and it included several other people who are members of Cruise Critic who will be sailing with. It was a wonderful party and we thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone.
We then walked quite a while and ate at a restaurant near our hotel called Papillon. Did we have salmon? The answer is no. We each had a very nice salad entrée, which included scallops.
Throughout our walk today we saw many people who were in the spirit of Halloween as they were in costume. The city was very vibrant and we had another wonderful day.
Today’s Thought For The Day
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keith and Anne Marie
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