Friday in NYC

Friday was our last day and our flight was scheduled to leave at 5:30 pm. We packed up most of our stuff before we left in the morning. We rode the subway uptown to Barney Greengrass for Lox and Bagels. We had bagels smeared with cream cheese, loaded with salmon, topped with a slice of white onion and tomato served with a dill pickle….for breakfast. Very quaint little restaurant with very crowded tables. On weekends, they accept cash only. Exceptionally nice wait staff.

Following breakfast, we ventured back to the Brooklyn Bridge. My camera battery had died on our trip the previous day so we went back to get pictures.




As we found throughout the week, most things take much more time than we expected. We were hustling to get back to the hotel to get checked out in time. We checked out, stored our bags and went a couple of blocks up to Ray’s Pizza for our final NYC meal. The pizza slices were huge, and tasted great.

We returned to the hotel, retrieved our luggage and caught a cab by about 2:00 pm. We were worried that we might encounter Labor Day traffic either in the city, or at the airport or both. We arrived at the airport by about 2:30 and placed our names on the standby list for the 3:30 flight from LGA to DFW. When the standby list first posted, we were number 14 and 15. We figured…no way are we going to make it on this flight. But luck was on our side and we made the earlier flight.

We arrived back home totally exhausted, but had an amazing week. It was a perfect celebration of David’s 49th birthday. I warned him not to expect this to be outdone for 50!