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16 weeks to go.....
« on: April 07, 2009, 08:38:31 AM »
.... till we sail to New York. Cant wait. Just wait till 12 weeks. Then i start to countdown how many sleeps till we go. I am like a big kid where holidays are concerned.


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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 08:42:15 AM »
What's your itinerary once you get over here to "the colonies".?

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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 08:45:16 AM »
What's your itinerary once you get over here to "the colonies".?

3 nights in the Big Apple (with a pilgrimage to Ground Zero again, to pay my respects to those who died on 9/11) and then up to Boston for a week. Flying home via Chicago to Manchester UK, then up to Glasgow. Phew!
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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 10:27:47 AM »
What dates are you going to be in Chicago, Scottie?
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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2009, 10:46:11 AM »
What dates are you going to be in Chicago, Scottie?

Wont be buddy. We touch down, then take off. Be there for an hour and a half at most.  :(
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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2009, 12:21:45 PM »
Ohhh yeah
I'm in NY for 5 nights in July.I'm just starting to put things together,like places to see,shop,restaurants

If anyone has any great ideas i'm all ears,especially food places



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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2009, 05:09:51 PM »
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2009, 08:05:23 AM »
If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you've always got!

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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2009, 10:39:57 AM »
Ohhh yeah
I'm in NY for 5 nights in July.I'm just starting to put things together,like places to see,shop,restaurants

If anyone has any great ideas i'm all ears,especially food places





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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2009, 09:44:49 AM »
The Guggenheim / New York

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york

Well worth the trek to the upper 80's.

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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2009, 11:18:07 AM »
The World Trade Center memorial.

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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2009, 11:25:50 AM »
The Strand Bookstore 12th and Broadway.

Should be listed as one of the wonders of the modern world.  :@`

http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/home/

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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2009, 11:45:32 AM »
Battery Park...great views of the Statue of Liberty.

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Re: 16 weeks to go.....
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2009, 10:48:43 PM »
Have dinner at the Cafeteria in the Hudson Hotel
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