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<\/a><\/p>\nLocation of George Washington’s Inauguration<\/em><\/p>\n Tomb of Alexander Hamilton. Luke holds a $10 bill.<\/em><\/p>\n We also visited Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, both historic institutions in the city. We were not able to approach very close to Ground Zero, and I believe we missed by about a month the new visitor’s center to be dedicated on the tenth anniversary of the attack.<\/p>\n Interior of Trinity Church, apparently haunted by a church mouse.<\/em><\/p>\n Katie hugs a bronze businessman.<\/em><\/p>\n If I had an extra day in the city, I would have enjoyed touring the antiquities collection at the Metropolitan Museum. Instead I settled for seeing the so-called “Cleopatra’s Needle,” an Egyptian obelisk inscribed by two of the greatest of the Egyptian pharaohs, Thutmose III and Ramses II.<\/p>\n “Cleopatra’s Needle” in Central Park<\/em><\/p>\n Prior to a little research before our trip, I had no idea that Central Park was the size of a city itself and that the value of the property, should it be sold, is about $528 billion. We walked through a small portion of it and I was impressed by the general cleanliness and apparent safety. (News reports had led me to believe that the park was primarily utilized by joggers and muggers.)<\/p>\n Overview of part of Central Park from Belvedere Castle. Our two friends and guides flank Mark and Bethany.<\/em><\/p>\n Our last stop was in Times Square. There was some concern that this might be an unpleasant day since this was the very first day that homosexual “marriage” was allowed in New York, but we saw nothing The family in Times Square.<\/em><\/p>\n If the boys were writing this, they ‘d make sure to mention each time we rode the subway between sites. It served as good transportation for us, but I can’t imagine getting to work each day that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visiting a place like New York City with a crew of kids is a rather daunting proposition, but we had two things going for us. First, we were visiting on a Sunday, when the city is relatively quiet. Second, our friend Gordon had given us some good planning advice and was there to meet us\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\ndisturbing <\/strike>related to that event.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n