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Sunday, July 12, 2009

A Year of Firsts

A Saturday trip to New York City yielded the following:

  • Rode the NYC subway for the first time
  • Subsequently got lost on the NYC subway for the first time (the getting lost was not my fault)
  • Went to the site of the World Trade Center -- a mess of fences, but shockingly smaller than I thought it was going to be; still, there's something eerie and disquieting about the site; especially the small memorial at the fire company station that was less than a block away; I look forward to returning in several years when it's all rebuilt because, right now, there are, unfortunately, no real memorials to the fallen.
  • Saw Battery Park for the first time
  • Went to the Wall Street area of NYC for the first time
  • Saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time
  • Saw Central Park for the first time
  • Tried grits for the first time (Doesn't fit in with the theme at all...but, as exciting as it is, it happened...)

4 comments:

  1. Grits...the ice cream of the south! :)

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  2. They were okay...but was like oatmeal...a consistency I really don't enjoy...

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  3. They are awesome because you can make them taste like whatever you want! I am very impressed with all the new things you are doing!

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  4. Try shrimp and cheese grits in Charleston, South Carolina once...I thought ewww that sounds gross but they are soooo good and very smooth, not like oatmeal

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