Where have I been? NYC for a weekend

Wow, I just looked at the date of my last blog and it was exactly one month ago. Where have I been you might ask?, or maybe you don't ask!

Let's start with last weekend.

A few of my girlfriends from Star have plotted for a few years that we should meet in NYC at Karen's apartment. Miraculously the plan actually came to fruition and last weekend, four of us spent two wonderful days and nights together.

Bon and I took the bus from Alewife and were dropped off just three blocks from where Karen lives. Joni came from MD via Amtrak. Karen cooked a wonderful pasta dinner for us Friday night and we caught up.

Saturday morning, and it was pretty chilly, we set off on foot to explore Karen's neighborhood. We walked on the HighLine, which was a wonderful, explored the Chelsea Piers, and walked, A LOT.

Karen belongs to the Rubin Art Museum, which is art from the Himalyas. If you have not visited this museum, I would recommend it. We spent 1 hour with a guide in one quarter of one of their six floors. I will be back to visit. The cafe at the Rubin is a very good value, so plan a meal when you visit.

The only NYC touristy thing we did was visit Macy's. We almost lost Bonnie and again we only explored one half of one floor.

Mostly, we got to know Karen's neighborhood, walked a lot, laughed a lot and decided that this was the first annual visit. Karen agrees, although our venues in the future might include DC and Boston.

Joni left Sunday morning, and the three remaining took the Metro to Washington Square.  New Yorkers are probably familiar with the piano player there, but it was an eye opener for us and it served as our Sunday morning worship.

Karen took us to a Greenwich Village tradition, Cafe Reggio and then we left at 2pm to return to Boston,  Unfortunately the NYC marathon caused havoc to our route home. We actually went via NJ. There is nothing wrong with NJ, but I did not expect to visit it during our NYC weekend.

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