As I mentioned before, I think, we bought some umbrellas, thus ensuring it won't rain the rest of the time we are here, unless, of course, we leave them in the apartment.
Our plan was to go to the September 11 memorial, which is a very moving site, but which you don't get much more of a sense of it from a photograph than you do of the Grand Canyon. It's like the Vietnam Wall, in that the moving thing is just the endless list of people who died. They have planted trees all around the pools, but they aren't very old yet, so the memorial is still pretty sunny, which didn't work in Verna's favor too well. The building john and I have been watching for a couple of years now looks complete. 
Out plan, to minimize walking, had been to go to the memorial on the 1 train, then come back on the one train and go to Jacques Torres chocolate near 72nd on Amsterdam, then take the Amsterdam bus up to 84th or so and go to Hamptons Chutney for lunch. 
But after we went to the memorial, Verna had a chance to get cooled down, and we decided to go down one more stop and go on the Staten Island ferry. This is fun for a lot of reasons, but for us included the fact that it was just a few steps from the subway, AND, of course, it's FREE. It goes to Staten Island, which is a bit of a downside, but it goes past the Statue of Liberty and Ellis island which otherwise you'd have to pay $20-30 to see from the tour line. And there's a cool breeze off the water, which was a definite plus.
After we came back we took the subway back to 72nd street and the chocolate store was very conveniently located. I had a mocha (hot) which was wonderful, about the consistency of the hot chocolate you get in Spain, the woman serving looked at me as if I had gone over the edge to order a hot drink, but we were inside. Verna had this cold drink she had heard about on tv that was supposed to have a taste of chili, but she hated it and couldn't taste anything spicy at all. Of course, what with the street nuts and the cookie with the drink at 4:30 pm, the next step is obvious. We didn't want dinner.
Ended up going home and Verna needed some alone time away from me, if you can possibly imagine that. I went out looking for street vendors and bought a very cute purse, then took a leisurely walk around the neighborhood and went to riverside park. Didn't stay quite late enough to see fireflies, and I guess I'm not going to get toshowany taverna, because it's too far to walk.
We had dinner at Telios right around the corner. It's a nice Greek and Italian place. I just had an appetizer, of mussels, and they were delicious. However, they kept me up most of the night. I thout I lost my braces again, but I eventually found them either on one of my bathroom trips or during one of the many cat assaults that take place on sleeping catsitters here.
It's Wednesday morning right now, and we are going to the Museum of Art and Design today before we go to see Kinky Boots at 2 pm. Verna is currently taking a catnap, which with Julia around means the maximum time you can sleep before she starts jumping on you, licking you, yelling at you, or all three. Verna was having trouble remembering Despina's name, so she was using Desi as a device to kick start her memory. This made me laugh, because Julia is definitely Lucy.
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