New York, New York

Thursday night we finally had the lobster they bought in Bar Harbor.  They were small but good.  Mine was a little mushy but the claw meat was great.  Maybe from a different lobster.

Before dinner we headed to the lounge for a cocktail.  This lounge is right before the theater.  So we stood in the doorway and watched some of the show.  Sorry to say, same old, same old.   So we sat and had our cocktail and then headed to Compass Rose for dinner.

Overnight the waters became quite rough.  Lots of rocking and rolling.  They call it Elvis seas.  Rock and roll.  Cute.  Not so bad but you needed to hold on to the rails.  This ship is not so big so I think you feel the movement more than on other ships.

In the morning it was still rocky.  We came into the harbor at around 11 am.  It was windy up on the decks and because our cabin is on the right side of the ship, it meant we had to be up on the deck to see the Statue of Liberty.  Will post pictures later.  I could use the same ones I posted back in June when we came into New York on the QM2.  But I won't.

We gathered for our tour.  We did a Manhattan Highlights.  I misunderstood what we were to see.  I thought we were going to the 911 memorial but we only went to the 911 preview site.  Oh well, a reason to return to the city another time.

We did drive by Trinity Church.  Trinity Church is right down on Wall Street area.  This is the church where Jim Cooper is Rector.  He was my rector in Ponte Vedra for several years.  After 911, Father Howard, who was the rector here at Trinity at the time, was elected to become Bishop of North Florida and that is when Jim Cooper was assigned up here.  He still has his home in Ponte Vedra.  If I had planned better, we might have been able to get to visit with him.  Another next time.

The traffic in this city is terrible.  I do not know how people stand  it on a daily basis.  It took us one and a half hours to get from St. Paul's Church back to the ship.  What a mess.

We got back to the ship and just changed some items and headed to dinner.  The service tonight was so fast.  We were in and out in one hour.  So after dinner we headed up to Galileo Lounge and no one was there so we went back down to the Seven Seas Lounge where we had an after dinner drink.  Bob ordered a Scotch that costs extra and had the bartender scrambling to figure out where the Scotch was and how to charge.

Mary Kay and her daughter, Kate, came up so we ended up talking with them for several minutes.  Then back to the cabin and I read a bit and lights out.