Dave was a sweet heart and ran out and brought back a bagel for us to share for breakfast, we have a food tour scheduled this morning so saving our appetites.
It is pouring rain today but warm, we put in our rain jackets, bought an umbrella at our hotel, and headed to the metro. So cool that you can just tap your credit card at subway entrance, no need to pre purchase tickets.
We met our tour guide in the East end at the African burial grounds. We are the only people on the tour today! Our guide Eric was wonderful, giving us a history lesson of the immigrants, neighborhoods that they settled in, and development of the whole area. We went through and stopped at 4 neighborhoods for food, Chinatown for dumplings, Little Italy for pizza, Jewish Quarter for knish, and the Latin Quarter for empanadas. It was a great experience.
Fun fact: picture is of paper shirts, food, ect, in China town, guess old tradition is to burn the departed’s favorite items, they realized burning valuables was not wise, so burn paper replicas.
We parted ways with our guide and walked around Essex Market then made our way to the Brooklyn Bridge.
We took the metro back to our hotel, but of course first got on going the wrong direction! We quickly realized that and got off at the first stop, exited and tried it again going the correct way!
We stopped into the MOMA gift shop as we walked back, some really fun items there.
Had a delicious dinner at Hama for Asian food right next door to our hotel.
Walked over to the Lena Horn Theatre for the production of Six. It was the best! We both thoroughly enjoyed it! Amazing singing from all of the cast. We learned a lot about the six wives of Henry the 8, just wow!
It was the very best NYC day in spite of the rain and soaking wet shoes all day!
