new york

October 2006 We’ve been traveling, of course. My new job comes with a nice spread of holidays throughout the year. For the autumn break in October, we visited New York. Mom and Dad took me there for my 18th birthday, but it was freezing, we only had one night, and the Statue of Liberty was covered in scaffolding. So I consider this my first visit to the Big Apple. We stayed just off Times Square, next to the Lyceum where “The lieutenant of Inishmore” was playing. Because London has the West End, we didn’t take in a play. Forgive me Rosanne. My favorite tourist attraction was the Empire State Building. There was a line but it moved so quickly that we didn’t have to stand and wait. We paid the extra and went to the 102nd floor. There were only five people up there. It felt like we had a private showing of the sun going down and the lights of Lower Manhattan taking over. Other highlights were jogging in Central Park and the MoMa. We will go back there.