I love New York

New York is just plain fun--especially if one has truck loads of money, which I don't, but that's the beauty of virtual traveling. New York is special to me because I was born there and went to kindergarten and first grade at good old PS 24. I remember our apartment and that I would go behind the apartment to walk the cat on a leash, and I learned to tie my shoes on the subway. Even now New York pops up often in my daily life--more than any other state. We always watch the Today Show in the mornings as we get ready for work.

And Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the Macey's parade.

And it just happens that the mystery I just read took place in upstate New York. And I also watched a documentary on Netflix called, "Man on a Wire" about the tightrope artist Philippe Petit who strung a wire between the twin towers and walked across.

Catherine went to New York with her high school orchestra and played the harp in Carnegie Hall. Dave went to a conference there--and I want to go back to visit some day. Happily, there is no end of material in the library about New York--a refreshing change from looking up remote places in Africa. Catherine checked out about half the collection. All of us enjoyed the children's book, You wouldn't want to be a worker on the Statue of Liberty.

Phew---I never fully appreciated just how hard it is to sculpt a figure and then have it blown up as big as the Statue of Liberty. Gotta love mankind--that was an INSANE amount of work.  I've also read a children's book about a Russian family and their trip to America through Ellis Island.

The current read is a New York alphabet book, which just makes me excited to visit everything--central park, the empire state building, the rockettes, the guggenheim and on and on and on.  Oddly, finding food to celebrate New York might be a challenge. New York has everything--what does one choose?  Perhaps the most authentic thing to do would be to find the most expensive restaurant and go with that, but that won't work for practical reasons. I think we'll have to stick with bagels and New York Cheesecake and maybe some Chinese food and pretzels and hotdogs? I think I'm in trouble....