Story is if you touch the bull in certain areas you'll have good financial fortune
Ceiling of Grand Central station with the clock in the middle of Grand Central Station
Supposed to be nice weather this morning, but look of a storm and predicts of thunderstorms this afternoon, plus we wanted to use our tour tickets for the "City". Didn't get to alot of things we wanted to. On the way over we got a call from Chris Z. at our delight he had taken the day off and was able to spend the day with us, poor thing touring and telling us about Manhattan. So excited to spend more time with him we met him at Grand Central both of us coming on different subways. Happened upon a small quilt show and walked by an amazing bakery. Took him or he took us to his favorite restaurant "Havana's". Yummy real Cuban food. I had the skirt steak salad and Curt and Chris had a breaded steak with rice and beans plus Chris order Yucca, fixed sort of like french fries but better. I've been wondering how to fix them and what they tasted like. Another thing off the bucket list. By the way they were "must have again". Chris has made them so we'll have to call him and try to make them on our own. After lunch we walked over to Central Park to use our tickets for a 1 hour bike ride thru Central Park. Chris was a good sport and came with us. Had a wonderful ride thru Central park a little over 6 miles up and down hills. Surprised to see it had a huge field, huge Olympic size pool for the public and lots of play grounds on the outside edge of the park for small children to play on. The road had paths for horse drawn carriages, bike path and running and walking path. Busy place. Chris prepared us to see some really weird things going on but we didn't see anything. Darn! The hills were down and really up up hills, had to walk the bike a couple of times. More exciting was following Chris from the bike rental place 3 blocks away, riding bikes thru the traffic to the park. Illegal to ride bike on the sidewalk, no we didn't get a helmet :). No problems cool to see Central Park and ride bike with Chris. Chris treated us with a Jamba Juice which was a wonderful cool healthy treat. Off to the Empire State Building to use that ticket, by subway with Chris's direction we made it there quickly. Walked thru Penn St. subway area. Chris went up to the 102 floor with Curt, I very thankful he did so I didn't have to go up that high. Was better this time being up this high than last time we were here with the Mission team. We were tired by this time and ready to sit and rest. Went over to Chris's apt., Yun fixed us a beautiful fruit snack and a Latte for Curt. Went to eat at a Korean Restaurant and Yun and Chris ordered different things for us to try since we have never eaten Korean. Fun to hear Yun order in Korean and learn how to eat the different dishes. Another must do again. Neat experience. Such a fun day... Thankful to spend more time with both of them. Back by Ferry to Staten Island and train to our stop and a walk for a mile back to the marina. Fell into bed shortly after 2 am. Can't believe the restaurant was serving at 10 pm or that we were out that late eating dinner.
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