We’re back in NYC for another birthday trip. It’s warm and sunny and unusually nice for mid October (back home it’s much colder).
The city is as lively as ever, possibly because there’s a major parade tomorrow (which we didn’t consider when we booked this trip). We just got back from Times Square and it was bonkers busy.
Today we walked over 10 miles hitting most of ‘our’ usual shops and just soaking in the city vibe. One church we passed was blessing animals today and we saw the minister blessing this police horse. There was also a child waiting in line with a little hamster in a cage. It was very cute 🙂
Those are paintings for sale in the markets near Union Square. They were all massive – about as tall as me, and the choice of subjects was… unusual. We not really sure if that is Jesus in the bottom left. What do you think? And which would you buy?
The hotel costs an arm and a leg but we always love staying here and to our surprise they put us in a newly renovated room with a wonderful view. They even gifted us a bottle of champagne and a balloon for the birthday girl!
We saw police setting up barricades on 5th Avenue for what we assumed was tomorrow’s parade, but then to our surprise a different parade started! It was the Hispanic Day Parade and we watched groups of people from various Hispanic countries dancing in national dress. It was quite spectacular and tomorrow’s Columbus Day Parade now has quite a bar to reach. Will we be able to watch it tomorrow? I hope so, but we have another activity beforehand which may get in the way. Check back tomorrow to see what happens…