June 1-4, Days 35 - 38: On Friday morning (6/1), Jim's 11-year old grandson, AJ, arrived at LaGuardia Airport from Memphis to start his visit with us. Getting from the west side of the Hudson River in New Jersey to the northeast side of New York City to retrieve AJ proved to be a bit of a journey, requiring a subway trip and a long taxi ride to the airport and back. Rather than fighting the high seas in the slip in the marina, we decided to move the boat 30 miles north to Half Moon Bay near Croton-on-Hudson, a quaint commuter community north of the city and just beyond the famous Sing-sing prison. (A bit of history trivia...Half Moon Bay was named after Henry Hudson's ship, the Half Moon, when he explored the Hudson River in the early 17th century). Before going up the river, we had to make one more drive-by visit of the Statue of Liberty, just south of the New York marina for AJ.
Ever since AJ was small, he has always wanted to see New York City. So, when he finally arrived, we asked AJ what he most wanted to do during his visit, and his first answer was "ride in the dinghy", which he thoroughly enjoyed last year, speeding up and down the Potomac when we visited Washington DC with him.
Saturday morning, we caught the train for the 40 minute ride back into NYC, to continue our sightseeing adventure in the big city. During his visit, we took a bus tour of midtown & downtown Manhattan on the hop-on/hop-off bus, went on an NBC studio tour, the Top of Rock (again), Times Square (again), and the main attraction, the Broadway play, Spider-Man, which was an eclectic combination of cartoon imagination and high-flying acrobatics with Spider-Man and the villain, the Green Goblin, flying around the theatre and off of the balconies back onto the stage. And, back at the marina, of course, the dinghy ride.
During the visit on Saturday, we got caught up in a relatively small peaceful protest march by the Occupy Wall Streeters which we jumped on as a photo op by prompting AJ to join in the march very briefly so we could send a picture of AJ demonstrating back to his mom & dad, so that they could see how well grandaddy was taking care of him in NYC.
AJ commented that, during his visit, he had ridden on an airplane, a taxi, a bus, a subway, a train, a big boat (Rickshaw), a small boat (Ricky-Dink), & a bicycle (around Half Moon Bay shoreline). On Monday, Jim returned AJ back to LaGuardia to fly back to be with his mom, Andrea (Jim's daughter) in Norfolk.
Ever since AJ was small, he has always wanted to see New York City. So, when he finally arrived, we asked AJ what he most wanted to do during his visit, and his first answer was "ride in the dinghy", which he thoroughly enjoyed last year, speeding up and down the Potomac when we visited Washington DC with him.
Saturday morning, we caught the train for the 40 minute ride back into NYC, to continue our sightseeing adventure in the big city. During his visit, we took a bus tour of midtown & downtown Manhattan on the hop-on/hop-off bus, went on an NBC studio tour, the Top of Rock (again), Times Square (again), and the main attraction, the Broadway play, Spider-Man, which was an eclectic combination of cartoon imagination and high-flying acrobatics with Spider-Man and the villain, the Green Goblin, flying around the theatre and off of the balconies back onto the stage. And, back at the marina, of course, the dinghy ride.
During the visit on Saturday, we got caught up in a relatively small peaceful protest march by the Occupy Wall Streeters which we jumped on as a photo op by prompting AJ to join in the march very briefly so we could send a picture of AJ demonstrating back to his mom & dad, so that they could see how well grandaddy was taking care of him in NYC.
AJ commented that, during his visit, he had ridden on an airplane, a taxi, a bus, a subway, a train, a big boat (Rickshaw), a small boat (Ricky-Dink), & a bicycle (around Half Moon Bay shoreline). On Monday, Jim returned AJ back to LaGuardia to fly back to be with his mom, Andrea (Jim's daughter) in Norfolk.
AJ 'protesting' with Occupy Wall Street
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Granddaddy and AJ in Times Square
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