This trip, like all the others I’ve shared, always takes longer than the actual going! We decided to go to Connecticut for a day to meet with some friends. They suggested we go to Mystic Seaport, a maritime museum where they not only have a working shipyard but they also have recreated a village built like it would have been in the 19th century. Most of the “businesses and homes” have people working a particular craft you would have found back then, telling stories or even singing. (tugboat that was on the waters for many years) It was a cold, windy day but in the summer it would be most…

I’m preparing to cater a wedding this coming weekend so I’ve been figuring up amounts and now the cooking is beginning. It’s a simple menu of soup & salad, so that’s nice. But that’s why I haven’t been around much this week. 🙂 Our last day in New York City we went to see Lady Liberty which has been a dream of mine for years. It was a cool, windy day and the lines were long. Buy your tickets ahead of time (and save more time by printing them out instead of will call) because if you don’t, you will be waiting in lines (one for buying tickets and another…

Thanks for joining me as I recount our recent visit to New York City. It’s a very interesting place. One of the oldest cities, it was named New Amsterdam by the Dutch in 1626. My previous posts are here.  Day 1, Day 2 & Day 3. The Federal Reserve building which is said to have the largest gold repository in the world with 7,700 tons of gold bouillon. They give tours of the building and the vaults that hold the gold.   The Brooklyn Bridge is another suspension bridge in NYC. There are many bridges there! It was completed in 1883 and was the largest suspension bridge at the time…

So here we are with Day 3 of our trip to NYC. You can read about our country family visiting the Big Apple here, Chinatown & Little Italy here  and see some of the historical sights in NYC here. We went for a visit to Ground Zero where the World Trade Center used to be. I had purchased tickets ahead of time which is a must otherwise you will be standing in line for a long time depending on the time of day you choose to visit. You need at least 3 hours to see it all and you could easily spend 4-5 hours. They have done a great job…

I had some glitches with my photos yesterday so I was unable to post but here it is today. 🙂   Day 2 of our visit to New York city continued… You may think of NYC as all modern day skyscrapers but New York was given that name back in 1664 after the Duke of York. Grace Church was built in 1846 by a young architect, James Renwick who was only 23 years of age.   The church was built in the Gothic Revival style.         There was a tomb inside with the name of Edith Gorse Evans inscribed on it. She was a passenger on the…