So the insanity of a few months on the East coast took its toll ~ and this blog was one of the many victims ~ but we are back in sleepy South Bend and with the corn growing slowly I have time to relax and make a few notes on our time in New York.
It began with a whirlwind twelve-hour drive to New York ~ pleasant and scenic for the first two hours ~ then ten hours of torture. We made it to our new home for summer just north of the city in Hastings on Hudson ~ a town along the river where we would be minding a friends cat in exchange for staying at her townhouse. Fortunately, the cat is 15 years old and moves about two-feet per day ~ making it a very easy job. We were also surprised to find that our new home had a nature reserve as a back garden ~ complete with deer and a resident woodchuck ~ so not exactly the city living from last year in New York.
The next six weeks were packed with work and sight-seeing ~ the sort of schedule that is a lot of fun but takes a year or two off your life. This year we pulled in every contact known to man ~ and managed to find our way into a taping of the Daily Show ~ our preferable news source ~ and then a tour of CNN and the floor of the Stock Exchange. With the benefit of our car we made day trips to the Hamptons, Fire Island and Connecticut ~ and visited family in Philly. We also managed to catch a game at the soon-to-be demolished Yankee Stadium ~ and tracked down the only English and Australian fish-n-chip shops in NYC (The Aussie tucker was much better of course).
The summer flew by ~ next stop was Los Angeles for Jen and Boston for me ~ before we would both meet back in Indiana to start another semester.
Pictured: Our ‘back-garden’, sunset across the Hudson, and the Yankee’s game.
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