Gotham City: Part IV


Tuesday in NYC we went to Times Square and bought tickets for the Gray Line's Downtown Loop. It starts at Times Square goes to the Empire State Building, Macy's, thru Union Square, the West Village, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, Wall Street, stops at Ground Zero, the UN, Waldorf Astoria, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, and probably some I forgot. The tour is a hop-on hop-off trip which means you can get off the bus at any stop and get on another bus later to continue to the next place.

We went to the top of the Empire State Building, and the Goddess actually went out onto the observation deck (she has acrophobia). She didn't stay long, but she did go out there. After that we rode thru several stops before we got off at the Southport Mall where the Goddess bought some tennis shoes. Our guide on this leg of the tour was from Brazil who speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Italian, German and a little Swedish. He's a UN interpreter. Pretty interesting guy.

After the shoe purchase we rode back thru several more stops back to Times Square. We got another bus to ride to Union Square to meet Kirsten for the Halloween Parade. We went to the end of her block to watch the parade come up 6th avenue. The crowds were heavy, and we didn't get to see a lot, but I saw a few funny get ups: A guy dressed like Jackie Kennedy in a bloody pink dress with a pink pill box hat, the "Pope" being kidnapped by two Palestinian martyrs, a "toilet" with a sign that said, "George Bush speaks, then you flush."

We even got back to the hotel in time to see the news story about the Halloween Parade.