We arrived about 9:15, had some breakfast at Grand Central then went on over to Central Park for the 'Gates' exhibit. It is an interesting sight, but I'm just glad it wasn't taxpayer funded. This artist, Christo, paid for it all himself. It's successive orange goal pasts, for lack of a better analogy, with orange-saffron drapes hanging off them spaced about 20' feet apart along most of the walkways in the lower park. It is sort of a pretty sight, watching the drapes billowing in the breeze, though. I got some pictures, but haven't loaded them on the computer, yet. We did the loop from 5th and 59th up around the lower part of the park up to 72nd St. and found the Balto statue. That's the dog who represents the sled dog team that helped bring meds to Nome AK. It was depicted in the movie "Balto".
After that, we walked back down to where we started, then crossed the street to F A O Schwartz. That's a fun store, but GAK! is it expensive. Clare wanted some invisible playing cards
which were probably the cheapest thing in the store, so I got her and Joseph a set. They're clear, except for the markings that denote each card. Clare chose a blue-silver color combo, and got a red-black set for Joseph. We saw a scaled down red Ferrari, that cost $50,000!!! I'm sure some folks with more money than sense will buy it for their little darlin child. Either that or the scaled down Mercedes sedan.
We left there and walked down to Ground Zero. It is entirely enclosed in heavly steel mesh since they're fixing to start re-construction. The ramp that was built to haul debris out is still there. They'll use it for the re-building. The hugh cross that was what was left of two I-Beams crossing each other that they pulled out of the rubble is still there on a concrete base. Got some pics of that, too.
I don't know how much we walked, should have brought my pedometer along! We ended up coming home on the early train cause it was getting cold, and we were tired. We're planning to go back later in the Spring when it warms up! It was only $33 round trip on the peak time from Waterbury to NYC, and it was only a two hour drive to Waterbury from here. Sure saved a lot of driving time and parking hassle!!
I was exhausted when we got back and the joints between my legs and hips were aching. I took some Advil, hit the sack, and was asleep within a minute of my head hitting the pillow! Boy do I need more exercise! I feel much better this morning after a full nine hours of sleep, though!