Day 3
What a fun day today. NYC was a buzz with all the crazy stuff that was going down in London. I can imagine that with everything that has happened here in the past 10 years with bombings and terroists that people are glued to the TV or radio when there are potential threats etc. Wow! Kinda scary!
We were up early today and headed down to Pier 83 to take the Circle Line tour around New York City. We had a hilarious experience trying to get a scone and coffee that may not quite translate in this blog as being funny but I will try to tell it anyways. We went into this tiny little cafe in Times Square that was packed and just kind of waited in line quicly realizing that there was no real line and no concept on how to get served. Right as I was thinking of how to deal with this some lady said "this is NY, you just have to yell out what you want." The lady behind us was laughing really hard at Alana and I. Now usually I have a loud powerrful voice that has no trouble being heard but for some reason I was humbled and talking quite quietly. I was like "um, excuse me sir, yeah over here sir, um can I have a coffee and a scone" No response as the lady was laughing even harder. Even Alana was laughing at me. It was quite funny.
Anyways, the Circle Line tour was really amazing. I was somewhat concerned about having to be on a boat for 3 hours but what a great trip. The tour guide was really awesome and informative. He really gave us a lot of great information and for me it made a huge huge city a lot smaller. The Statue of Liberty was really something to see up close and also to see how big the twin towers were and what a huge loss to the city's skyline they were. The coolest thing about the whole tour was near the end as we were coming back the guide pointed out to our right that that was Inglewood Cliffs, NJ. Just as I thought nice, Rudy Van Gelder's home, the tour guide pointed that out. How hip is that?
After the tour we just killed some time walking around Rockefeller Center, went to Saks Fifth Avenue etc and then got caught in a torrential downpour. It was awful. We had a few hours to kill before meeting trumpeter Jim Rotondi for dinner. We had some great THAI food and visited with one of my favorite guys around. Tunj as he is affectinately known is a great guy! After dinner it was time to go home and sit on the couch and chill out. New York can really eat you up and we needed some rest. The thunder storm hit Harlm at around 800 and boy was it ugly. Fun to watch but ugly! A great night to be on the couch watching re-runs of Friends.
On the sched for tomorrow: Smoke to hear a live recording with David Berkman and Jimmy Greeene, a free concer in the park with a great alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
We were up early today and headed down to Pier 83 to take the Circle Line tour around New York City. We had a hilarious experience trying to get a scone and coffee that may not quite translate in this blog as being funny but I will try to tell it anyways. We went into this tiny little cafe in Times Square that was packed and just kind of waited in line quicly realizing that there was no real line and no concept on how to get served. Right as I was thinking of how to deal with this some lady said "this is NY, you just have to yell out what you want." The lady behind us was laughing really hard at Alana and I. Now usually I have a loud powerrful voice that has no trouble being heard but for some reason I was humbled and talking quite quietly. I was like "um, excuse me sir, yeah over here sir, um can I have a coffee and a scone" No response as the lady was laughing even harder. Even Alana was laughing at me. It was quite funny.
Anyways, the Circle Line tour was really amazing. I was somewhat concerned about having to be on a boat for 3 hours but what a great trip. The tour guide was really awesome and informative. He really gave us a lot of great information and for me it made a huge huge city a lot smaller. The Statue of Liberty was really something to see up close and also to see how big the twin towers were and what a huge loss to the city's skyline they were. The coolest thing about the whole tour was near the end as we were coming back the guide pointed out to our right that that was Inglewood Cliffs, NJ. Just as I thought nice, Rudy Van Gelder's home, the tour guide pointed that out. How hip is that?
After the tour we just killed some time walking around Rockefeller Center, went to Saks Fifth Avenue etc and then got caught in a torrential downpour. It was awful. We had a few hours to kill before meeting trumpeter Jim Rotondi for dinner. We had some great THAI food and visited with one of my favorite guys around. Tunj as he is affectinately known is a great guy! After dinner it was time to go home and sit on the couch and chill out. New York can really eat you up and we needed some rest. The thunder storm hit Harlm at around 800 and boy was it ugly. Fun to watch but ugly! A great night to be on the couch watching re-runs of Friends.
On the sched for tomorrow: Smoke to hear a live recording with David Berkman and Jimmy Greeene, a free concer in the park with a great alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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