Last Friday morning, CJ and I went up to New York on Amtrak. I love Amtrak. Maki dropped us off around 9:00am for a 9:25am departure and we still had time to pick up breakfast at McDonald’s and make a bathroom stop before boarding the train.
Family and friends know that CJ is crazy about trains, so it was a real treat for him to ride the train up to New York. We even ran into our friends Debbie and Bert, and their son Max, so we had company for part of the ride. CJ played Go Fish! with Max, he watched a couple of Thomas movies on the PSP (Playstation Portable), and we paid a visit to the café car for some lunch.
Catching a cab was a breeze because it was the middle of the day, so we got to our hotel, Club Quarters in midtown, in no time.
This trip to New York is a mini-vacation before CJ starts school on Wednesday, as well as a family trip. We met my mom, older sister and brother in New York; they flew in from San Francisco. The impetus for the trip was the waterfall exhibit by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, who created waterfalls from four locations in the East River and New York Harbor (more on that later when I post about our boat ride on the river.
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