Guess who's 7?

Yes, it was Logan's birthday yesterday and he is officially 7.  He made me laugh cause he kept saying he was 6.  I say today's your birthday-you're 7!  No, he said, "I won't be 7 until I blow out my candles!"

Waiting for his family to come was not so easy!

Now, can I open the presents????

A new family member named Paisley.  (Did I spell it right?) 

A Clay Matthews pose for Uncle Ian!  Green Bay day!

Grandma's biggest nightmare....
Now, who will blow out the candle first?  Grayson is taking over Logan's job of blowing out everyone's birthday candles!

The Big Apple Continues!

I decided to break it up in a couple of parts because I had so many freeze episodes.  Boy does it take forever to do an update when this continues.  But I keep trying and with any luck I will be done before bedtime!!!

Makin' a deal at China Town.  REALLY!

The sites of China town.  Very hectic!

For Sale, everything in a handbag, to go!

Looking down from the Empire!  Now that's a drop!

The Hudson.  Our boat left from Pier 84 and was the first rescue boat to the plane that crashed in the Hudson some years ago.

Bicycle taxi on the right.  Lots of those running around!  Also the last day was Puerto Rican Parade Day and we were worried we would never get to the Airport!

Our boat!

The concession stand on the boat.

Here we go!

The couple on the right are grandparents from our team in Cooperstown and were on the same boat cruise!

A view from the boat.

A famous place -- Ellis Island.

This one ummmm takes me back to 1957!

The tour guide said we would be dancing cheek to cheek with the lovely lady and we did!

Finding myself at a place I was at 56 years ago with my mom and dad!

Hail the taxi!!!Hurry!  It's a water taxi, really!

Governor's Island.

Coming in for a landing.

We passed many bridges today.

A last view of the Empire State Bldg.

A picture for Spence who used to live on Staten Island as a baseball guy!

A blog about NYC wouldn't be without the perverbial cops on the horses picture, would it?  And I am now officially done with my posts.  I am amazed that I could get this much done.  Although it took a week to post it all.  But I have over 1500 pics and I promise not to bore you with anymore!  All done!
Aren't you glad?

More on the Big Apple!

Blogger just froze up, so I hope that I will be able to post something.  It is really strange.  I keep getting error messages, as well! 

I had started a post about driving in New York State, and having to fork out lots of cash for the Expressways.  It wasn't too much fun!

 It was raining cats and dogs when we arrived.  Can you tell?

We drove to La Guardia to drop off our rental car.  Jamie was getting a bit tense, so I was happy we would use other transportation in the city.  By the way, I became real good at hailing cabs!

Lots of bridges to see!

A little NYC breakfast before the NBC tour, just across the street.  I wonder how many stars have had breakfast right in this very spot!

A view from our Hotel, just 1/2 block from Rockefeller Center.  And directly across from Radio City.

The Big Apple! The green part is Central Park!

He's almost as tall as me!

The Empire!

Our first glimpse of our Lady Liberty!

Another view of Central Park!

Ran into nice people on the 67th floor!

Including other Cooperstown participants!

Is Jamie afraid of heights?  Not sure what was going on here!

The front of Club Quarters where we stayed.  If you look closely on the right, is Johnny Utah's.  A night club, I suppose.  But a reminder of home, sort of...
By the way, who was in the Limo and was he/she staying at Club Quarters?  On our last day, they were rehearsing the Tony awards at Radio City and the whole street was shut down.  We had to drag all our luggage away from the hotel to hail a cab for JFK.

More pretty bridges.

At 911 Memorial.  The new tall building is the new tower.

Waiting in long and hot lines at 911.

There are 2 pools like this with the "falls" in the middle where the water goes down, where the twin towers once stood in exactly the same piece of ground.

 The new tower reflecting buildings on the side.

Names at 911.

A recent loved one must have been there....just before us.

Another view of the "Falls".

This is a view of the stairs that was preserved from the explosion.

It is enclosed by glass so that the pictures were not the best because of the reflection from the glass.

Leaving the Memorial.  The cement areas are well there will be 8 buildings yet to come.