Thursday Lisa and I started the day by having lunch with my friend Pat. We met up down at the Silver Spurs, a nice little diner near 9th St. and Broadway. It was good seeing Pat again. I haven’t seen him since my days at EarthLink. Now we’re both on to better things and it would seem he’s as happy about his new job as I am about mine.
After my tasty BLT, Lisa and I walked down to the site of the World Trade Center. We walked by it the day before on our way back from the Statue of Liberty, but my camera battery was long gone by then so I wanted to go back. It’s an amazing place. To think that there used to be two towers, twice as tall as anything near them standing there at one point is difficult to grasp. Workers are still repairing damage to surrounding buildings and work is beginning on a major new transportation hub. We walked all the way around the site, seeing it from as many angles as possible. While the damage caused by the buildings was immense, it’s incredible to think that there are buildings not far from the towers that weren’t destroyed during the collapse.
Next, we made the walk over to Wall Street. We walked around a bit and took a quick tour of a coin collection at the Federal Reserve Bank. We were considering going on the tour there, but we found out that you have to make a reservation in advance.
Tired from all the walking, we made our way to a subway station and headed up towards the shopping on 5th Avenue. We visited Swarovski, Tiffany and Co. (holy crap…they have expensive stuff) and Louis Vitton (they, too, have incredibly expensive stuff). We rounded off the night with dinner at Mickey Mantle’s (mmm…ribs) and returned to our hotel room to get some rest.
Of course, no evening would be complete without a late night movie. So we caught the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.