Last day in NYC and Train ride

Teddy Bears all in a row in Macy's Christmas department.

Joe shopping in Macy's.

Sculpture at the bottom of Trump Tower at Columbus Circle and at the corner of Central Park.  The subway exit comes up right under this sculpture.

Lobby of the Times-Warner building on Columbus Circle.  The pedestal sculpture that's the center of the circle can be seen through the windows.  Those hanging stars are huge.

Joe asleep on the train.  He's in the top bunk.

One of my meals on the train.  It's bar-be-que ribs. They were OK, but not wonderful.  A little greasy to eat in public.

The beginning of the snow storm as seen through the window of the moving train.

This must be the next morning because the sun is shining.  The snow was beautiful even if it did hold us up for 12 hours and eventually cause us to have to leave the train in Atlanta and board a charter bus back to Meridian.

This is in the station in Washington, DC.  Snow is coming down fast and wet and will keep us there for a long time.

Another shot from Sunday taken from the train.  It really was pretty.

Financial District and Brooklyn Bridge

This is a huge sculpture that's out on the street in the financial district.

Here's Kathy in front of it and me being reflected in the shiny surface of the disk.

Walter and Danny on the Brooklyn Bridge.

We walked to the center of the bridge.  This picture is facing east.

...and this one is facing west (back toward Manhattan).  Then, at Walter's request, we walked on all the way across into Brooklyn.  This bridge is very important as far as engineering and bridge building are concerned because it was the first of its kind.  It was finished in 1883 and was built mostly by hand.

Kathy took this picture as proof that we walked all the way across.  Then it was probably another half mile or so to get the rest of the way off of the bridge and to a subway station to bring us back across.

Goofy Danny on  the subway headed back to the hotel.  We were all exhausted by this point and very footsore.

W & K on the same subway.  It was hard to get a good picture because it was moving and jiggling.  We sure were happy to be back on it, though.  Joe elected not to take this trip with us, so that's why he's not in any of the pictures.  He went shopping instead.

The Financial District on Friday

Walter and Kathy at the Wall Street "Bull"

The new construction at the World Trade Center.

Bronze plaque on a building that's next to where the World Trade Center stood.

The Winter Garden.  This is a glass courtyard that serves as a meeting place in the World Trade Center complex.  It's really a spectacular place.

The exterior of the Winter Garden.

Statue of Liberty in the distance.

World Trade Center memorial.

More of the WTC Memorial.  There was apparently one wreath for every person who died in the attack.  This is just a very small portion of them.

The New York Stock Exchange Building.

W & K on the balcony at Tiffany's on Wall Street.

Trinity Church on Wall Street.  This is the church with the bell tower which I went into on my last visit.

Images from The Met

Today was the Metropolitan Museum day.  This is one of the largest art museums in the world, and there's more in it than can possibly be seen in a day's time.  This is from the Egyptian exhibit.  There were a bunch of these statues, and they're larger than life size.

This is a square grand piano from 1902, and it's the most ornate one I've ever seen.  The keys are mother-of-pearl.

An Andy Warhol painting of Mao.  You can get a sense of scale from the woman who walked into the picture just as I was taking it.

Three suits of armor for knights and their horses.  It all looks very heavy and cumbersome.

This circle of mirrors is about 10 feet tall and has a very strange effect n your vision as you walk up to it.

Kathy giving me the eye as she's calling Joe to find out where he is in the museum.  She and I were worn out and ready to leave.

The ceiling in the grand entry of the museum.  It's a very, very large space.

More NYC Wednesday

This is a "crystal sofa" which I saw in a famous crystal shop.  Pretty bizarre and uncomfortable looking, and I didn't even ask about the cost.

The chandelier in the foyer of Radio City Music Hall.

The famous Christmas Tree in Rockefellar Plaza.

Wednesday in NYC

Walter bought both of us a hat (can't remember what they're called) like the kind that Pop used to wear.


















Rockefellar Center.  We were at the very top just shortly before I took this picture








Joe ice skating.  He looks like he just ready to do one of those fancy turns.




The chandelier in the lobby of Rockefellar Center.





Statue outside of Rockefellar in the Plaza.  This is just above the skating rink, and it's much bigger than it looks in this picture.View from the "Top of the Rock".  I think its 68 stories tall.

.Walter and Kathy in their long, heavy coats at the Top of the Rock.  It was really cold up there.  On the walk back to the hotel after the show this afternoon we stopped at a street vendor and bought neck scarves, gloves, and hats for more warmth.

On the Train

This is the train (and bus) station in Meridian.  It was actually very nice and looks pretty new.










Here's our train as it was pulling into the station in Meridian, MS where we had to go to catch it.





















We brought a basket of fruit and cookies, and Joe picked one of his prized camellias to decorate it.  He's sitting in our Viewliner Roomette and I'm in the seat right across from him.  There's a large picture window just to his left, and the sink and toilet are next to him on the right (left in the picture).  The whole affair is really pretty small, but cozy and comfortable.  The two facing seats fold down into a bed, and there's another bed that drops down from above.  I took a 3 hour nap in the upper one this afternoon.


















This is Joe washing his hands in the fold down sink.  The water just collects in the basin and then drains out as you fold it up.  The toilet is just below that.  There's no privacy for that function in the roomette, but one does what one has to do.


















This is the dining car.  This picture is when we were there for lunch, and it's a little blurry because the train moved just as I was taking it.  We just finished dinner in there a few minutes ago, and now we're back in the roomette relaxing.  The train is stopped in the Atlanta station at the moment.