Across the river

Living across the Hudson river gives great views of the lower half of Manhattan. These are pretty much our only exciting pictures we have taken lately; the rest are all of houses that we are looking at. The first one here is right from the waterfront looking over the piles of an old pier.


The other pictures here are taken out of the window of one of the condos we looked at. If you look closely in the top one you can see the back side of the Statue of Liberty.

Oh Captain! My Captain!

We had tickets to the matinée of the musical Wicked, so we spent another day in the city. We had great seats in the seventh row. It was a good show with good music and lots of things happening on stage; I was entertained. While we were walking around we saw that Patrick Stewart was in Macbeth. We ended up going to it 'cause we figured that this was a great chance to see Captain Picard in a Shakespearean play. We stuck around after the show to see if we could see 'the Captain' up close. Sure enough after a couple of minutes he came out and he siged our playbill. He's short. It was a dream come true for Kate.

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We're in New York again! This may not seem like such a big deal in a year but it's still pretty novel for the time being. We're actually renting an apartment across the river in Jersey city for the two weeks that we are here and it's a really nice place. (I'm pretty sure that the tub needs wheels.) It's kind of cool to see the city from across the river. It only takes about 15 min to get from the apartment to 33rd street (mid-town Manhattan, right at the base of the Empire State Building). Kate's excited about the tickets we have to the musical Wicked that we picked up on our trip into the city yesterday. We walked around CentralPpark where we ate lunch and watched a softball game being played by adults on a Monday afternoon in the middle of the park. We also went down through Times Square then through the theater and garment districts on our way to Korea town where we had dinner at our favorite Korean restaurant (favorite because we've been there once before).


But our trip hasn't been all inner city pressure and amphitheater tours, we've spent most of our time here scouting out neighborhoods in Jersey City for a place to live next year and we have liked a lot of what we've seen. The pace is slower in Jersey and it's nice to be able to relax.