Brooklyn

A tree really does grow in Brooklyn!

Sunday we finished up the bus tour we bought yesterday. We took the subway down to the south end of the island and caught the bus to Brooklyn! It looks a lot like Manhattan, only quieter, not so many people. They offered no stops so we did not get off.

I got some pretty good photos of the Brooklyn Bridge and Lady Liberty.

Our tour guide for this part of the trip was a douch. He actually told us he was making stuff up, and he did! We were the only Americans on the bus, so who knows how many people understood what he was saying anyway. When we got back to Manhattan, we finished up the "downtown" bus tour and luckily we got a really great tour guide. She was a retired teacher who had a wealth of knowledge about NY to share. I got a really funky photo of the Chrysler building that shows what looks like gargoyles, but really are enlarged hood ornaments from automobiles!

After our bus tour we met Laura and took a loooong walk through Central Park before finally deciding to eat at Edgar's near where she lives. It was a charming and quiet little place that is on the very spot where Edgar Allan Poe lived from 1844 - 1845 and where he wrote "The Raven." We walked Laura back to her residence and then caught the 1 back to 50th Street. See how I'm picking up the lingo? The subway here is really the best way to travel. You have to ignore the rats, though. We saw two today, plus a mouse in the park. Oh I almost forgot! We went to 5:00 PM services at the Church of the Redeemer with Laura. The congregation is the youngest I've ever seen. After the service they had free coffee and cookies. Yummy.