NYC - Day 5.5

I wasn't going to do this, but I just had to split up these blog days because so much happened this morning. I've been touched by three famous people so far today - Hoda, Kathie Lee, and Al. If you include meeting Rupert Jee from the David Letterman show, that makes four famous people on this trip that I've touched. That puts my lifetime total now at four. Actually I'm at five because I forgot about Olympian Dan O'Brien. Also I got autographs from Steve Prefontaine and the San Diego Chicken team mascot. I probably touched them in the course of getting the autographs.

So walking away from the NBC location, or as us New Yorkers call it, 30 Rock, it's now off to the United Nations. I got tickets for a tour of this. Almost everything in NY has a tour associated with it you can take. I'm not absolutely sure it was worth it, but it was pretty cool. If you're into flags, boy howdy, this is the place to be. The UN is basically the nagging mom of the world. It lectures you about stuff, but you pretty much do what it says only if that is what you were going to do anyway. Anyway, we got to go into the meeting rooms, see diplomats walking around, and see lots of flags.

The rest of the day is mostly just walking around and popping into places. You have to map it out ahead of time or you can zigzag all over and walk for miles. Just walking along you stumble onto cool gift shops, they toy store FAO Schwartz, Grand Central Station, Fox News, Madison Square Garden, etc. If you get tired, though, taking breaks are fun. We had cokes at a place where you could sit at their front window and just watch the New York scene.

The NY Public Library is the one you see with statues of lions out in front. They had a room that had the original stuffed Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, etc. - More famous people I've met. I think if I lived here I would have one day a week I would just hang out here.

Grand Central Station is cool because you see it in seems like one out of every four movies. Its kind of like if felt about the Grand Canyon. It kind of takes your breath away for the first moment you see it and then its like OK I'm done. They're both grand, but only for a little bit.