Next we trained it to NYC. Below is Cydonia and Barry in their 30
th floor apartment - we met on the
Place on Wheels in Feb 2005. The closest we came to the Museum of Modern Art (across the road from the hotel) was seeing this truck load of sculpture being unloaded. Of more interest to us was the Frick Museum, a turn of century mansion art gallery.
The Metropolitan Museum is one of our favorites, and they had numbered exhibits with talking handsets. On Sunday morning we went to a Broadway jazz club for Gospel singing. They were fab – one of the trips highlights, that evening we went to the Rock Church for what we thought would be more of the same. How wrong were we? It was a regular Pentecostal type church with a Pommie Chaplan with an out of tune guitar and a flat voice. There was a fair bit of hallelujah style weeping and wailing too. Not quite what little Metho-Presbuttons like Drena and Garry grew up with. We could hardly leave mid service though, as there were only about a dozen parishner's and they were acutely aware of making us more than welcome by passing bibles and hymn books to us throughout the service.
I was very good at taking my vacation in NYC. Apart from several phone calls, one Jazz club dinner and a bit of shopping for some tools for Stella, there was no other work done. But had to take these few photo's. The first 2 are Harry Winston windows. The peep hole on the right has a 10ct oval diamond ring in it (with a dreadful bowtie). De Beers are opening a new 5th Ave store soon; just had to get the incongruous US flag into the pic. The US Govt has had a warrant for the arrest of De Beers exec's since the 1960's for monopolistic behaviour until very recently when De Beers paid out and settled some long standing cases.
This shop in fashionable Soho is Teno, a German brand of Stainless Steel that we have had in stock for the last couple of years. Drena had a fascination for the external fire-escapes – this building had 3. And finally Drena and Garry sharing one of the very inexpensive and healthy meals that one can self select from the many NY salad bars. All up less than $20, complete with quite nice light Italian red in plastic cups.