How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

Wednesday July 13.  Practice, practice, practice!  Okay, okay, I know it's an ancient joke but, hey.  Very near Carnegie Hall is the Carnegie Deli and we just had to go eat lunch there.  The serving sizes are obscene and no one got even close to finishing what was on their plate (thank goodness), but it's fun for the experience.

Andrew and Dan with a FMUMC disc!

Right around the corner from the Carnegie Deli is the Ed Sullivan Theater, where The David Letterman Show is taped in front of a live audience.  We did not even try to get tickets, as our children would have been too young to get in.  But we stopped for a photo op!

Meredith with Rupert Jee of the Hello Deli

What's a stop at Dave's place without a visit with Dave's friend, Rupert Jee, of the Hello Deli?  Rupert was very gracious and posed for a picture with me.  We talked about a recent skit on Letterman which dealt with the eatery board of health ratings system in NYC.  It was a great skit!

Fountain in front of the Met

On the upper east side of Central Park is a fantastic place to visit, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met).  It was VERY large and we ended up seeing only a fraction of the art showcased there, but it was wonderful.









The non-Apple-loving person in our family, Dan, was just dying to go by the Apple store near Columbus Circle, so we did.  That place was a MADHOUSE!  We walked in, walked down the stairs, and pretty much walked right out again.  Why anyone would want to shop at that particular store is beyond me.  It was wall-to-wall people.  Yikes.


Around this time, we were talking about our trip up to this point and I asked the kids what they liked seeing the best so far.  Andrew loved seeing the Empire State Building and going to the Top of the Rock.  Kylie's favorite activity was seeing The Lion King.  We'll see what the rest of the trip holds....


Dinner at Junior's was pretty good. We sat out on the patio and people watched, too.  There are a lot of very interesting characters in the big city!

After dinner, we retired to our room and watched Rango on the TV.  It was a cute movie (I liked the animation), and it was the perfect thing to do, as we were all pretty much wiped out.  Nighty night!