Sunday, January 27, 2008

We enjoyed breakfast at the Inn. The Seaport museum tickets are good for two days, so we returned to see the Journeys building. There was so much more to see that we’d love to return. When we left the warm building, a picaresque New England wintry day greeted us, complete with fluffy snowflakes. We ate lunch at a window table in S & P Oyster Company and looked out the window at the winter water. Three ducks floated and fished and flew to entertain us. We watched them dive for a fish and guessed where they might pop up. Those quackers can move underwater!

We arrived home long enough to unpack and relax briefly before getting on the train and heading into NYC where our friends Johnny and Jennifer are staying. We met them for dinner at ROC. My gnocci was yummy and Garrett claimed his salmon was tasty as well.
It was refreshing to see Oklahoma friends in New York.

Plus, I’ve not seen a New Yorker yet who can hail a cab with the ease that Johnny did. Seriously, the street was empty, so we started walking towards a busier one a block away. We’d only taken a few steps when Johnny stood in the middle of the street and let loose one of those sharp whistles that only occur in movies—or so I thought. A cab stopped—it didn’t even have its light on because it was carrying a passenger—but it stopped and backed up down the street until it reached us. They put us in the cab so that we could rush to catch our train. I was concerned they’d have to wait, but nope, before we’d even left, another cab had appeared and they were crawling into it as we waved goodbye.