Ok, here’s the rule: When you feel like you are still moving when you are standing still, you are done for the day.

Well, we got a late start today because we did not use an alarm again…basically I hit the shower as soon as I am awake enough to have my brain start thinking about what we were going to do today. It’s obvious we are not going to be able get to everything we thought we could and tomorrow is a last chance to see the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. We’ll be starting out at the Empire State Building at 7 AM or as close to it as we can get, then we are headed down to Rockefeller Plaza and the Staples store across the street to make our “It’s our 10th wedding anniversary TODAY” sign and pester Al Roker or whoever is doing the weather during the TODAY show and mug for the camera and say hi to all you folks back home.
The Staten Island Ferry is free.

But first let’s talk about today, not the show. We decided we were not here long enough on this trip to waste time getting lost trying to use the subway so got a cab down to the Circle Line pier and went on a 3 hour cruise around the entire Island of Manhattan. It was narrated and very good. Pretty packed. When we got close to the Statue of Liberty so many people went to the side of the boat I became concerned we were tipping so far sideways. I could not even see the statue since it was on the other side of the boat and the only thing I could see was water! Kinda freaky for someone who is scared of drowning (that’s me…)

This is the golf driving range at Chelsea Piers…remember the movie Serendipity??

When we got back from the cruise it was about 3:30 and as we were walking towards Times Square the traffic got worse and worse and we couldn’t find a cab to go back the other way towards South Street Seaport/Pier 17 and the Brooklyn Bridge. So since we were so close and hadn’t seen Times Square yet we dove in. On the way we passed a place we decided to come back to for dinner, Ollie’s Noodle Shop. We each wrote a wish for the new year on a piece of confetti that will be dropped into Times Square tomorrow night. Luckily we were at the beginning of the dinner crowd when we got back and got a table just before 5 PM. I finished the meal with chocolate sorbet served in half of a cacao bean. Steve had pineapple sorbet served in half of a real pineapple.

It’s now almost 9 PM and we are wrapping up for the evening so we can rise and shine early like a bird! This is 3-4 hours earlier than we have been getting to bed the last two nights so I imagine I will be awake at 4 AM or something stupid like that.

Steve took a lot of pictures today so I am only posting the highlights. I am not going to caption most since I didn’t take notes and it is too hard to remember everything.
The Colgate Clock

The Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island

The Brooklyn Bridge

The Chrysler Building

Sky tram that goes to Roosevelt Island

The Red Lighthouse that all of the children wrote letters to the city to save from being torn down.
An area that is falling into the river and so the boat had to travel real slow thru this area so as not to cause any waves.