Kingston Road Tripping

Anthony flies home today, and I can only imagine the sadness he felt at having to say goodbye to Kira this morning. Lucky for us, she has a classmate from Auburn who is there from her internship in D.C. and they will be spending the weekend together exploring and attending church.  One of our biggest desires for Kira while she lives in NYC is to get involved in a local church, and thankfully for us and for her, there are several she is interested in visiting.  Her friend will leave late tomorrow afternoon, and work begins on August 5th. Yesterday was the last day of sightseeing for Anthony and he finally got to do his cruise to Liberty Island.  Until they went, I assumed that the Statue of Liberty was on Ellis Island.  It is not.  So much for assumptions.  They did photograph Ellis as they passed by, but it was too hot and they were too tired to stop and visit.  Plus, there were tons of people, and they were a bit weary of that aspect of sightseeing....

Kira moved in yesterday, and while I would love to show the photos of her new place, they are going to have to wait one more day, because the photos Kira sent will not download yet. I will explain more about the apartment tomorrow, but I do have permission to share a story of her first night there. Kira, I may not get all the specifics correct, so forgive me. The laundry room is on the 2nd floor of her building, and since she bought towels and such earlier in the day, she wanted to launder them first.  After Anthony left for his hotel, she headed downstairs to put them in the machine.  She came back upstairs to continue working on her room, and around 10:30 p.m. or so, she got back in the elevator to head down to put them in the dryer.  She was on the elevator with a young adult male,  and he watched as she pressed the button for the 2nd floor, only to have it not stop there.  He kept saying "you'll get it" over and over again, and she had no idea why he was s...

Yesterday was Day 2 of an NYC adventure that I am not even on, but am writing to tell you about.  This is Anthony's first trip to the city, and he naturally wanted to make the best of his time there, which meant scheduling a couple of tours.  He scheduled these through Marriott, with the first being a boat cruise of the skyline and Lady Liberty on Tuesday afternoon.  I mentioned yesterday that he had to reschedule that tour due to unexpected time constraints, and the person he spoke to assured him it would be no problem to move it from Tuesday to yesterday.  The plan was for them to take their scheduled morning walking tour of Manhattan and then head to Battery Park to board the boat and take that cruise that had, of course, already been paid for.  The walking tour was very informative, and I will share more on that in a bit, but that is all they were able to do because Anthony received an email from Marriott Maeve who told him that since he did not cancel 24 h...