Watched the Boston Red Sox beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium (baseball game), Terry was happy he's a Red Sox fan. Late night subway and ferry from Queens back to Staten Island.
Thursday left Staten Island for good, don't think we'll be back, booked into a hotel near Central Park. Very hot & humid day, well over 37C, Terry spent the day under a tree in Central Park watching our landlord from Chelsea play a baseball game, they lost by 1 run. Pam spent the day in the hotel, nice and cool.
Wandered around Brooklyn, a mix of grunge and upmarket places, found a great bar and a hip restaurant in one of the main streets near Prospect Park where the first free summer jazz concert was playing, thousands of people about.
Saturday was a big horse racing event, the Belmont Stakes, pity the weather had changed dramatically (quite like Melbourne) wet and cold. A big venue, a grass track and a dirt track but not the style of the Spring Carnival. Strange tote system however Pam was successful with 3 winners, but that was it, still came out in front. A roughie won the main event which was run on dirt, mud really, some other races were run on the grass couldn't work out the reason for the difference.
The annual Puerto Rican Parade went down 5th avenue on Sunday, we watched for a couple of hours it seemed to go on forever, loads of people and lots of noise as you can imagine.
A Big Apple BBQ was held in Madison Square park over the afternoon, great food.
That night was the 6th game of the NBA finals, Dallas 3 v Miami 2, big TV event, played in Miami. Dallas was the underdog but got the win first time ever, great game.
Monday we moved to another hotel, The Harvard Club. Great place very worldly, we were "sponsored" by the agent who found our apartment, she's a member so got us a room for a couple of nights but we pay. We attended a "Clambake" night with her and her husband and another friend at the Club - great food.
Today we've arrived in Washington DC by bus rather than train for the US Open Golf tournament which starts tomorrow (Thursday). We thought the train would be about $50 as we'd looked at tickets on the net before we left home however the Amtrak system is like an airline so unless you book way in advance the tickets are very expensive, to book and travel today would have cost $150 each! We took a bus for $35 each and it only took an extra hour. Booked a hotel near the golf course over the net from Melbourne and it's a winner - shuttle to the golf, great facilities and we've scored a suite.. We stay until Monday.
The apartment we've rented in New York is brand new in 42nd street on the 35th floor with great views over the Hudson River and back to the city. Great location and the timing is perfect - we move in July 12 after we get back from Europe.
Bye for now
Pam & Terry
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