This was a long day of walking and subway-ing (I know it’s not a word, but we did it!) around New York City.  We started by going to the 9/11 memorial where the World Trade Center once stood.  It was massively impressive, with more buildings still going up.

The internal display was extremely well done, and highly emotional for those of us that watched the towers come down, even if only on TV.  There were classes of middle-school students also going through it, running and enjoying themselves.  I then realized that 9/11 was ancient history to them, just as was World War II was to me when I grew up in the 1950s.  Sobering thought…

Next on our tour was Grand Central Station.  Huge, and exactly as imaged from the various movies that have scenes here.

We went to Gallager’s for dinner, and had a fabulous steak — at New York prices of course, then followed that by attending “The Book of Mormons” on Broadway.

We wrapped up the night by visiting Times Square.  You’re in New York City? Gotta see Times Square!  It was then that I noticed how young those on the town were. The Under-30 set outnumbered the grey-hair set easily 10-to-1.  This part of the city truly belongs to the young. And, even at 11:00 pm at night, the streets, Trader Joe’s, restaurants and bars were jammed packed — New York is known as the City that Never Sleeps, and we concur.