Our Connecticut host and dear pal Dan drove us into Manhattan

We installed in the Belvedere Hotel a second time. It is very conveniently close to the Theater District stages and the Midtown sites.

Our first museum was the 9/11 Memorial. Two hours is not enough and next time we give it a half day. The new World Trade Center tower is a pillar of tribute to the thousands lost to a day of infamy.

We met up with Mimi’s Santa Barbara painting pal Viviana for an upper West side Thai supper with vigorous creative cocktails.

The next day we meet again for a stroll through The Rambles of Central Park. Lunch at E.A.T. Cafe is a central casting Upper East Side quintessential New York moment overhearing about twenty languages and at least one table of ladies who lunch in perfect fashion down to the service dog lap dancer who could fit in a tea cup.

At the Met with spend much time with the Dutch masters which include three Vermeers.

That night our first play “Ain’t Too Proud” is a rocking good compilation of The Temptations hits.

A Nor’easter came to town the next day and we stole a morning walk around NYU before hiding from the rain with two plays, Hadestown and Betrayal.

We get in another museum, The Whitney, while rains are gone but high winds blow and keep us off The High Line.