Chiang-Kai Shek Memorial Hall - 中正紀念堂

Last Days in Taiwan - August 2006

Maddy Mo-Mo

My favourite long haired Chihuahua - Maddy is a mix chihuahua & poodle

In London, Ontario

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

My Birthday!

In the Big Apple: NYC

Sunday, August 14

Beautiful & Historic Brooklyn Bridge

Sue & I

Brooklyn Bridge

A view of the Manhattan Bridge

In a New York Minute..NOT!!!

Waiting and waiting and more waiting..Waited in lines for everything in the Big Apple:

Shake Shack hamburgers in Madison Square Park [~1 hr.]

Prune Restaurant for brunch [~20 mins.]

@ TKTS box office for Broadway Avenue Q tickets [~30 mins.]

Shakespeare in the Park play: Mother of Courage and Her Children [~5 hrs.]

Guggenheim Museum - Pay what you want evening [~5 mins.]

Shakespeare in the Park: Mother Courage and her Children

The story: My day began by getting into the line-up for free Shakespeare in the Park tickets outside the Public. The show that I was lining up to see was called, "Mother Courage and her Children starring Meryl Streep & Kevin Kline. I waited 5 hours to get my 2 free tickets at 1 pm! Later that afternoon, the weather began to get strange. The weather forecast had called for rain, unbeknownst to me AND all of a sudden, it started to pour! Let's hope for the best & hope that the hard rain will stop!?! After a little while longer, the rain stopped only to continue again after a short while. As Sue and I got on the train to Central Park, it had strangely stopped 2 stops prior to where we wanted to get off! The train was being delayed due to train traffic in the tunnels! Man..it was getting awfully close to the 8 pm start time. We thought we'd get out of the station & flag a cab down..NO SUCH LUCK! So..in the end, we trekked by foot down 5th Ave. We walked in sections of the street and in Central Park where it seriously looked flooded with water up to our ankles. I even lost my slipper in the water & had to go fetch it! Ha! Even though we had umbrellas, we were pretty much soaked by now! We walked probably 8 blocks & in through Central Park before we found the theatre where there was a big line-up of people waiting to see if the show would go on! By this time, the rain was only a drizzle and it looked promising! We found out that the show would go on! Start time was around 8:30 pm..or actually, when they finally got the stage, sound, etc. set, it was close to 9 pm. Despite, the rain, the train delay & even semi-floods, we needed to proceed on since I had waited 5 hrs. for those tickets! Unfortunately, even if the show is cancelled, the tickets would not be honoured the following day! Not fair but that's life! In the end, I was sitting in shivering clothes and cold on a measely wipped down theatre chair, however the play was still awesome and Meryl Streep was stellar as usual in her role as Mother Courage!

Maddy with the Cool Shades! Ha! Ha!

Broadway: Avenue Q

Guggenheim Museum

Featuring architect Zaha Hadid

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clinton Street Bakery

Rockefeller Center

Ball hockey

Williamsburg Bridge

Crosby Connection: Johnny, Joe,
Sue & I

Brunch at Prune

Central Park

Chinatown