I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm bored. Let's eat dinner.

Kylie at the NYPD Times Square building

 Thursday July 14.  Just for the record, I would like to state that I have come to realize the further away from Times Square I am, the better.  Times Square in mid-January, even while it is freezing cold, is tolerable.  Times Square in the middle of summer is absolutely nuts.  Oh, by the way, today's title comes courtesy of Kylie.  She said this one day not five minutes after we finished something fun and exciting.  ;p

Here's Bucky!

We started off the day by having breakfast at a local bakery.  Yes, I had a bagel and cream cheese.  And it was de-LISH!  The best bagels in the world are in New York.  After we finished, Dan and Andrew took a cab to La Guardia to pick up a rental car.  While they were gone, Kylie and I walked around a bit more, sat in the dreaded Times Square for a while, and managed to buy a few souvenirs!  There was a big net set up by the Yankees doing some promo stuff.  Folks were able to "take batting practice" and guess who was pitching?  Bucky Dent!  He was such a cutie pie back in the 70s....  :)

The original Nathan's location

Kylie and I met Dan and Andrew back at the Times Square Hilton and we loaded up the rental car and headed out - first stop Coney Island to get a Nathan's hot dog!  Dan has been fascinated by the International Hot Dog Eating Contest that goes on there each year so we stopped by the original Nathan's.

Dan was so happy to get his Nathan's hot dog!

We drove from Coney Island to Philadelphia through exciting places such as Camden, New Jersey.  We crossed the Delaware, albeit a little differently than Washington crossed the Delaware.  We drove over the Betsy Ross Bridge.

We were happy to find our hotel located on Logan Circle - right where the Franklin Institute is!  I adored the Franklin Institute as a kid.

Pennsylvania - the Keystone State

As we were running out of clean clothing, we walked to three different dry cleaners to find one that also laundered clothes and we found one!  Yea!  Having them launder the clothing was so much cheaper than having the hotel do it.


We ate dinner at a place called Elephant & Castle, which specialized in "English" fare.  The waitress was absolutely lousy but the food was pretty good, and the bill was a whole lot cheaper than any we paid in NYC!