9/11 Memorial and Yankees Game

After our culinary tour we headed to the 9/11 memorial.  We had to get tickets ahead of time and be there by 2:30 pm.  It started pouring rain, so I picked up a sweet poncho from a street vendor.  Since my dad is a southern guy and most southern guys have to have a pocket knife, my dad had one.  Well what is the first sign we saw when entering the memorial?

KNIVES are prohibited!

Somehow with all the security, he made it through with his knife.  Craziness!  Luckily we never had to use it to clean a duck or his fingernails while at the memorial.  These things are necessities, people.

The memorial was pretty darn amazing.  It was just so sad to see all those names of the victims spelled out.  But, if I had lost a loved one I would have wanted to see their name carved in stone.  It is a great memorial and such a nice way of honoring those that lost their lives on 9/11.

Dad and Neil

This is the only tree that survived the attacks.  It was a stump that was taken to another NYC park to be revived.  It survived and they brought it to the memorial.  The "survivor tree" is it's name.

Neil and I went back to the hotel to change and headed to Bryant Park for some roof-top dining.  You can eat outside so many places in NYC.  I love the flowers and trees in the background.  It was raining during our meal and we didn't even get wet.  The umbrellas made it nice to sit outside.

We walked to Grand Central Station to head to the Yankee's game.  I haven't been to NYC since 2002 and Grand Central looked the same to me.  It is amazing!

We took a train to the Bronx and got off right at Yankee Stadium.  Neil LOVES figuring out the trains and making sure we are on the right ones.  Neil also threw our raincoats in the suitcase at the last minute and it was the best idea!

It was beach towel night at the game, but Neil and I got there too late to get one.  Luckily Carolyn and Dad had theirs because it started pouring!  We sat through it for a while until is was a monsoon!  We had to leave by the 3rd inning because it was so bad.  We were glad that we got to see the stadium!