New York City - Day 1

Finally arrived in New York at 11:30am and first item on the agenda was flagging down a cab which as you can see was not a problem for me. It has been steadily raining since we arrived here and the temps have dropped and the wind has picked up turning everyone's umbrella inside out.  From Chris' apartment we walked 6 blocks to the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site.  New York blocks are equivalent to a "country mile" as I found out.  I kept wondering when we were going to get there. It seemed like it was taking forever so I'm convinced those 6 blocks were more like 20 blocks.

 Here is a photo of me, Julie and Teddy Roosevelt taken in front of the brownstone where he grew up.  Chris and Wade also had their picture taken with him as well.  What a thrill it was to have our picture taken
with a former president.  Well at least it was for me. This was well worth the visit and best of all it was free.  Since it is a national historic landmark I added another cancellation stamp to my Passport to the Natl Parks booklet.  After leaving TRs birthplace,, walking back to the apartment, we stopped and ate at Dallas BBQ.  This is where the weirdness started.  While we were eating a man came into the restaurant walked over to the table next to ours and was just staring at the table with leftover food. In a few minutes he  

grabbed the tip from the table and left in a hurry. The other weird thing is at this restaurant you have to pay for refills on drink orders.  Can you believe that!  I'm talking full price for refills for tea and or sodas. Well that's about it for today. I'm back at the apartment blogging while the rest went to the store to get a few grocery items.  My knee made it through the first day without incident,  Tomorrow we are heading for Times Square for sightseeing and shopping.  Everyone have a good evening.  Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.  In New York that is no joke!