Originally written 1/13/07

Mom took care of the blogging today.....

Ten days from another decade passing for me, but so far I'm able to keep up with Becky. There are shades of the 3-day breast cancer walk, as she occasionally adjusts her pace to my speed. As always she is ever supportive and encouraging, as she repeatedly asks "do you need to sit down?", as she recognizes that I will never be able to skate the stairs of St. Patrick Church like the crew we saw last night. Covered a lot of ground last night, culminating in a spectacular production of Mary Poppins. Set, costuming, performances were the best, our seats were great for viewing. Got back late and spent the rest of the night fighting with the heater, but I'll let Becky tell you that story. Today we are the tourists.

My dogs are barking all the way from Central Park, where Becky willingly reenacted a scene from Law and Order under one of the bridges. We shamelessly looked for where all the rich people were supposed to live over looking Central Park. Becky seemed uninterested that I had printed out pages of every movie ever made in Central Park. The Park is full of the ghosts of famous actors, but Becky is concerned she won't find a recycling bin for the paper I wasted.

She is actually the absolute best to travel with (a sense of direction unrivaled by the little compass on our pop-up New York map.) Becky has conquered the New York Subway system. Downtown to Greenwich , probably the best of the neighborhoods we have seen so far and Becky was a sport right to the Bitter End (literally). Voices of Dylan are still in my head. Dinner in Brooklyn with friends leaves me feeling like a real New Yorker, Little Italian Restaurant, that keeps you looking over your shoulder for Tony Soprano to arrive. It would have been nice to have Tony's influence at the Brooklyn Museum, as we were initially determined to see the Annie Lebovitch Photo Display. After two hours of waiting in various lines, we decided to buy the book and bail.

Back at the hotel, which I insist Becky write about soon, although I doubt that the memory will fade any time in the near future. We crawled into bed to watch the Saturday Night Live to which we did not have the stamina to sleep out to secure tickets for Friday Night. I guess it is nice to see a City that has experienced the worst of the world, be silly enough to camp out for Saturday Night Live Tickets, more time and we would have been there