26th September 2017 - Tuesday

After yesterday, we decided to have a slightly slower pace today.  As we were going to the baseball later, we decided to head downtown to get on the Stanton Island ferry.

We got the subway down to Bowling green which is the last stop before the green line heads over to the Bronx. We briefly walked through the park which had been redeveloped following the devestation of hurricane sandy a few years ago.

We wondered over to the ferry terminal and waited to board. The great thing about this is that it is free and it goes quite close to the Statue of Liberty. Both ferries we got had open viewing decks so we got some decent photos. Although most of the distant views were still shrowded in foggy pollution.

Once we got back to Manhattan, we walk around to the edge of Manhattan to the WTC. This is a really nice walk, we met a few dogs to pat and eventually landed up in a sort of shopping mall where we grabbed some ice cream.

We then walked over to a place called Stone street where we had Mexican the other day. This time we had a pizza. It was really good, although it was slightly burnt on the bottom and we later learnt that this had upset my tummy.

Funnily enough, we had about half an hour until we met Smiti so we walked over to the Eastern shore to look at the Brooklyn bridge. When we go there, there was quite a bit of commotion and there was a police road block in place. There was also lots of people gathered looking over at the heliport. So we walked over, and sure enough, the Presidents helicopter had just landed and he was being ushered into his limousine. It turned out there was a gala he was attended that evening. Quite exciting!

From there, we met Smiti at her apartment. She had left her phone at the office! So we headed back for her to get it, I needed to pick up some indegestion tablets, and soon we were on the subway to Yankee stadium.

When we arrived, the sun was setting, producing a beautiful orange glow in the sky. The subway was right at the stadium so we were in pretty quickly. It’s a completely new stadium, so the facilities etc. inside were really good. The pitch sort of looked bigger than I was expecting.

The whole evening was great, the atmosphere wasn’t too bad, it was the end of the season though so there was still quite a few empty seats. A bit like the ice hockey the other night. We only saw 1 home run which I was disappointed at, but the New York Yankees did win 6-1. And we also saw a spectacular catch that saved 3 runs for them, and probably effected the over result in just that one moment.