Friday/Saturday

Friday morning Terry does not go into the hospital until later.  We go grocery shopping. We decide to try Atlantic salmon for supper.  You know we are really pacific people.  He leaves for the hospital around 10.30 am and I wait until noon (9am pacific time) to Skype with Roision and the Curvy girls.  9.15 am and no- one is on line. I get worried and think perhaps there is something wrong with Skype at Roision's end.  I call Roision and discover the Curvy girls are late and no-one has arrived yet .... Eventually the girls turn up. I get to see and chat with Debra, Patti, Andrea, Julia and Peggy.  It is so good to see everyone.  Unfortunately I have to leave at 1 pm my time - maybe not unfortunately as I am off to meet Hannah.
Hannah and I meet at DSW (designer shoe warehouse) at Union Square - nothing here for us to buy.  We head upstairs to Filene's Basement. I know it seems strange that a basement would be upstairs but here in Union Square it is on the 2nd - the 6th floor.  AT LAST ...... I find a coat - I purposely did not bring a coat to NYC as I intended to buy one here.  I get a coat and a pair of pj's ( probably too much information)  Hannah gets a pair of BCBG shoes ( only after we have a conversation with a New Yorker who tells her she can't walk but a block in those shoes - "and in NYC we walk everywhere") She also gets a gorgeous Calvin Klein coat.  After all this shopping we are hungry.  We head out along University Place (I think) and find a restaurant called "Nanoosh" a Mediterranean hummus bar.  I think - 'why didn't I find this while Roision was here' - she loves hummus.  Anyway, Hannah and I have a lovely lunch there.  She walks over to Franky's and I take the subway home.  She "facebooks " me later to see if I got home ok - I am so good on the subway ...... of course I got home ok.
Poor Terry gets pasta for supper as I had such a late lunch I am not ready for supper and we keep the salmon until Saturday.  We have a quiet evening at home.

Saturday - the clean up continues in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island from the tornado on Thursday. Some people in Queens still do not have power.  It is amazing.

Terry goes for a run and I putter about in the apartment.  At 2 pm we leave to take the subway uptown to 103rd Street.  We walk over to 5th Avenue to the Museum of the City of New York.  We discover it is under renovations and not all of the exhibits are available.  We decide to return another day in the hope that we will see more.

  There are a couple of churches we want to check out while we are uptown in this neighborhood.  We head over to St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral. I know it is not catholic but it has the onion domes and is quite beautiful to see.  It is on east 97th.

  We then head over to east 90th to visit "The Roman Catholic Church of our Lady of Good Council"  this is where we thought we might go to Mass tonight but seeing as how we did not spend any time at the museum we are way to early.  On the web site it looks spectacular and I am keen to see the inside.  When we arrive there, it is all locked up.  A lot of the churches here in Manhattan  are locked up until Mass times.  We decide to come back another Sunday for Mass.  So - what to do?  We check out another church !!!!

We take ourselves over to east 88th to see The Church of the Holy Trinity - it is in our "New York" Eyewitness Travel Guide book.   It has a beautiful door - it is Episcopalian  - It is also famous for its bell tower.

 We walk to 980 Park to find St. Ignatius Loyola Church.   It looks very nice from the outside but we cannot get inside a there is a wedding going on inside. It apparently has some "Tiffany" stained glass windows which I would love to see.  Oh well, another day.

  We decide we will go to Mass at St. Paul the Apostle which is at Columbus Circle and 60th Street.  It is a beautiful Church, we don't get a very good photo of the outside as it is under scaffolding.  It is beautiful inside.  I wonder how a place like NYC can have so many beautiful churches - they are spectacular.  I don't think I have seen such opulent churches in Canada.  I also wonder about the candle lighting.  You know how catholics can light a candle and say a prayer for someone - we don't do that in Canada but all of the churches here and in Europe you can.  Terry says he thinks it is an insurance issue - he probably got that information from Father Horgan.
Anyway,  Mass was very nice.  We leave the church and head home.
I realize we have been walking for 4 HOURS plus 1 hour Mass - it is no wonder that my feet are about to give way.
I get home - cook the salmon - eat and drink a very nice glass of wine - ok maybe 2

GOODNIGHT........