Welcome back to New York!
Did you realize that the CIA HQ was in New York? No, not the Central Intelligence Agency, but the Culinary Institute of America. Tim and Elli especially enjoyed this visit.
No vacation is worth its salt without touring a couple of mansions. This one was one of the Vanderbilts' simplest "summer cottages."
This amazing chapel was built to hold the entire student body and faculty at West Point in 1910 (they were all required to attend). It has the largest church organ in the world (Becca was green with envy).
The career soldiers who fell in the Civil War are honored here at West Point.
We finally talked Dad into driving through NYC. The George Washington Bridge connects Manhattan Island to the New Jersey mainland. Isn't the sky beautiful?
One of the landmarks in NYC: the Empire State Building.
Shaky hands disrupted this picture of the Statue of Liberty. It was a lot prettier live.
Ground Zero.
The first bridge to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island: the Brooklyn Bridge.
The highlight of the NYC tour: getting out of the city without a scratch on the car! Driving in downtown NYC is like driving around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris--the drivers don't seem to recognize that staying in lanes is a good thing.
1 comment:
CIA - Ha, ha, ha, you got me! I'd love to hear Becca play that organ. I bet she would too! So, you survived NYC without any mishaps? To hear J. Bruno talk, you would imagine that it is impossible for anyone to walk one block without getting attacked, robbed or murdered. Somehow, I'm inclined to think that his stories are a little one sided. ;-)
Glad you're having fun, and still posting!
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