This morning consisted of boat chores again. Jorge was busy educating himself on the more sophisticated features of the electronics and I had neglected house (boat) keeping duties so I tackled some of them. As well, we were starting to plan for our departure from NYC to Sandy Hook and the Jersey coast in the next couple of days, looking at anchorages, wind, current, weather, etc.

After lunch we met Diana and Gilbert at the marina. We took the subway to Times Square and walked to Grand Central Terminal. It is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. Very impressive with some 117 tracks for trains!

Outside Grand Central Terminal.

100th birthday of Grand Central Terminal.

 

We then took the subway to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Unfortunately there was a game just ending so we were not able to tour it. Not only that, it was top of the 9th with the Yankees losing so people were beginning to leave the stadium and the subway was going to be a zoo very shortly so we decided to turn right around and go back to Manhattan. We were a little cocky thinking we knew the subway system having done the #1 train on the red line many times. Well, we certainly got twisted around in the station outside Yankee Stadium and ended up getting on an express train that stopped some 50 streets past where we wanted to get off! By this time we were downtown Manhattan and just hopped on the #1 train on the red line which we knew well to get to where we wanted to go. A lesson in humility.

Yankee Stadium.

Yankee Stadium (again).

After buying some take out we sat in Central Park and had a picnic supper. We then walked to the Metropolitan Museum and toured it for 2 hours. We probably could have spent 2 weeks in there and still not seen everything.

Metropolitan Museum (The Met).

 

Again it was a lovely day, warm with blue skies and a cool evening. This time we were prepared with jackets.