New York City - Day 3

Saturday morning, we woke up to a little rain but not enough to keep Todd and Harmon from taking a run through Central Park.  Todd was able to join us that day which was great.  We took the subway down and then took the Staten Island Ferry so we could see the Statue of Liberty.  I hope to spend some time on Ellis Island next time we go.

It was amazing to see something you've only heard about and seen pictures of your whole life.

After 14 years, we still like each other (most of the time).  After the ferry, we walked around the financial district.  We saw the Meryll Lynch Bull, Wall Street, and Ground Zero.  Ground Zero was very sobering.  Harmon wished he could see down in to all the construction that is going on on that site.

We stopped by Century 21 and did some shopping.  It was a great place with lots of good stuff for great prices.  We then made our way to Soho and had some funny experiences with people selling knock-off hand bags.  We were escorted to a secret closet in one store with two-way radios to make sure no one was watching.  I am so naive that once we were in the closet, I asked the guy, "Why are you being so secretive about this?"  Ashley looked at me like I was clueless.  I didn't find what I was looking for, so we took another guy up on his offer.  Before you knew it, Ashley and I were in some guy's van looking at purses.  When I asked if he had any that were just leather he said, "No.  GET OUT!"  We laughed all day at our adventures.  I couldn't resist taking a picture of this sign that was on the window of a boutique.  Classic.

We ate at a great place in West Village for dinner and had the best fried artichokes as an appetizer.  We headed back for Ashley's, freshened up and decided to hit Serendipity for dessert.  Once we got there, we were told it would be an hour wait.  We decided to kill some time at Dylan's Candy Bar.  I went downstairs and Ashley came up and told me that the guy from Survivor was there.  Harmon and I are huge Survivor fans so I called Harmon and had him come down.  Harmon didn't want to bug him but Jeff's friend saw us debating what to do.  He asked if we wanted our picture taken with him.  We told him we did but that we didn't want to bug him.  He said that Jeff would love to and went and got him.  He was very nice - shorter than I would have thought.  He took a picture with us and talked to us for a couple of minutes. Harmon and I were so out of our element, we didn't put it together that he was in New York for the live finale the next day. Crazy.

Harmon and I shared Serendipity's famous Frozen Hot Chocolate which was all that it is cracked up to be.  Definitely worth the wait - which only turned out to be 30 minutes and because of the wait we got to see Jeff Probst.  Win win.  Fun day.