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We had a wonderful week away but were excited to get home to see Addison. A quick pic at JFK and then hello Vancouver!

NBC Studios

On our last day we took a tour of NBC studios - we did actually try to see Letterman but he was on a break and many of the other shows we could not get tix for. The studio tour was very good, I can't believe small some of the sets are! Nothing like in L.A. where they are huge! We were not allowed to take any photos on the tour but I did run into Matt Lauer in the NBC store!

Our hotel

We stayed at the Murray Hill Inn, great location, clean and quiet, what else could you want in NY. When Chris stretched his arms out he could reached 3/4 of our room. In this photo I'm standing out the door. We had a shared bathroom (we were the only ones who used it)so everything in the room is in this photo - including the cement wall out the window :)

Back on the boat and we cruised home.

The tour company we were with were actually some of the rescue boats that were used when that plane went down in the Hudson River a couple of years ago.

Zoo

There was also a closed down zoo at Bear Mountain, we didn't go in and look but found this sign extremely funny.


Actually Bear Mountain kinda reminded me of the place where Dirty Dancing was located, there was an old resort building there, at one time I bet this place was really awesome - if the walls could talk.

Arrival at Bear Mountain.

Our stop for a couple of hours was at a place called Bear Mountain. We were finally able to dock - but had to wade through a couple of cm's of water as the dock was still slight flooded. We were a stern caution that it was not the tour company's fault if someone hurt themselves and we should not get of the boat - after a few others did so we got off and were followed by the rest of the crowd. A very short hike up the hill, where we found Octoberfest being put on by the locals. Chris had a beer and perogies while I had a potato pancake. Then we decided to go for a short walk up around the lake and take a look at the scenary.

so up the river

So up the river we went - which continued to be very interesting! The leaves had changed much more as we went further up - past West Point, the prestigious military college

Up the Hudson River

The weather did not start off great for us but we cruised up the Hudson. Our boat was very full and we had so much fun chatting with lots of people on our deck. We were surprised to find out that alot of the people on board were from New York. This was the 'fall foliage" tour and a lot of the locals take this every year with their families. So it was quite nice to chat with some locals and get there take on things. There were some funny moments where they spoke of the greenery and leaves turning - which couldn't possibly compare to BC Canada!
The tour guide was also very knowledgeable and explained lots of the bridge history and we passed by and major landmarks. One of the ones that was really intriguing was Sing Sing, the maximum security prison.
As we went further up river we got to the folliage, quite beautiful. When we got to our dock we discovered it was flooded and would have to go further up the river in order to wait for the tide to go down.

On our way back to hotel

We captured this beautiful shot of the Empire State Building. We were home to bed as our boat cruise up the Hudson river was the next day.

Broadway stars and then the diner

We had been to Oleanna on Broadway, the play was really good and we were lucky enough to have a informative post play talk with experts. Very interesting indeed. So when we got out onto the street Julia Stiles and Bull Pulman had already left, but we heard that Hugh Jackman was about to come out from A Steady Rain so decided to stick around. We then saw a few more stars including Daniel Craig and that guy from Full House. The next night we went bak to see A Steady Rain - it was fantastic. That night we got our playbill signed by both Daniel and Hugh, we saw Tony Soprano himself (James Gandolfini) and got photos with the stars of Oleanna and got them to sign our Oleanna playbill.









Chris was certain that after a Broadway play you must got to a diner and have pie and talk about the show. So we found this cute diner close to our hotel. Chris had pie and I couldn't resist having NY cheesecake.