Stirred Not Shaken

Shakers Cocktail Bar offered a Martini tasting, we had watched them earlier preparing the glasses for the tasting. It took several hours for them ready the glasses and trays. Each of the trays cost $19.95 for the tasting, looks like a good money-maker. Must be why they do it several times during the cruise. We […]

A Round of Drinks

Once on board we made our way to O’Sheehan’s (named after NCL boss Kevin O’Sheehan) to have lunch and to start our 12 days of unlimited drinks. This restaurant served comfort food and had a relaxing atmosphere. We started off with appetizers of chicken wings, fried mozzarella sticks and warm spinach & artichoke dip. Then […]

Let’s Cruise

Sunday morning . . . Time to start our second part of our adventure. Fred, Lupe and Steve started off the day going to Mass at Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Everyone else decided and extra hour of sleep/packing was a good idea. We had breakfast our last time at the Hampton Inn and […]

Window Tourism

Window tourism is, after all, is a time-honored New York holiday tradition. According to NYC & Company, the city’s destination marketing organization, 30 percent of last years total visitation took place in the fourth quarter of the year; more than in any other season; typically five million visitors come to the city between Thanksgiving and […]

Chronicling Immigration

After visiting the Statue of Liberty, we took the ferry over to Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. The museum is located in the Main Building of the former immigration station complex. The French Renaissance Revival structure, restored to its 1918 – 1924 appearance, tells the moving tales of the 12 million immigrants who entered […]

Rockefeller Center Top of the Rock

With the country facing economic catastrophe and the world between two wars, John D. Rockefeller’s vision for his center never wavered. Rockefeller Center and the observation deck were his gifts to Manhattan – a place for locals and visitors to marvel at the city he loved. We had heard that getting to Top of the […]

Lady Liberty

The Statue of Liberty was a joint effort between France and the United States, intended to commemorate the lasting friendship between the peoples of the two nations. The French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi created the statue itself out of sheets of hammered copper, while Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the man behind the famed Eiffel Tower, designed the statue’s […]

Giant Ornaments

Giant ornaments are displayed annually during the holidays at different locations in NYC, including Rockefeller Center on 6th Avenue.  

Subway

Yes. It may not be one of the prettier parts of the city, but riding the Subway is always an adventure, just make sure you’re going in the direction you want to be going. Up and down the stairs we went, trying to decide if we were going uptown or downtown. Which train did we […]

An Off Broadway Show

For our last night in NYC, we went to see Clever Little Lies at the Westside Theatre at 407 West 43rd Street in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. The building was constructed in 1890 in the Romanesque Revival style. At first, the building was used for the Second German Baptist Church, in later years as various […]