Is that Nathan's famous hot dogs behind Patty? Could it be the one in Coney Island? What on earth was Patty doing in Coney Island?
To make a loooooong story short, she munched on a pearl in a mussel in Maine & ended up with a tooth ache. Brooklyn Kathleen's (B-Kath) dentist was in his Coney Island office so worked her in. Three X-rays & probing just found a traumatized nerve (Patty had visualized jumping off the Coney Island parachute jump with a string around her tooth! Yikes!) The most unbelieveable part was the dentist didn't charge Patty anything - just said to say hi to B-Kath & Stanley, so "Hi!!!"
While Patty & B-Kath were playing on Coney Island, New Jersey Kathleeen (NJ-Kath) & Bridge started the Manhattan part of the tour for Mary & John.... Times Square, Grand Central Station, NY Public Library, St. Patrick Catheral, Central Park, FAO Swartz, Rockefeller Center. Can you believe they did all this BEFORE lunch? When B-Kath & Patty caught up them at the Korean restaurant, John had grown a bit long in the tooth (or perhaps Korean food just makes you a bit crazy!)
Coming to our senses once again we headed off to the Empire State Building - of course we took Mary up! Then some strolling down 5th Avenue where Mary shopped til she almost dropped. You know that bank account you USED to have Frank??????
Nita (a friend of B-Kath's) called while we were contemplating the program outside a church - "What should women wear?" & asked if we might like to join her & her kids on a James Beard sunset dinner cruise. (Some of her sales staff had cancelled.) Let's see... no dress code, gourmet dinner, a cruise around Manhattan & the Statue of Liberty on a VERY nice yacht, sunset, a full moon, open bar, no charge (FREE). It was a HARD decision! Thank you soooo much, Nita! (She's standing next to John.)
Dillon (John & Patty’s godson) continues to grow like a weed. It won’t be long before he’s as tall as we are. And Peyton is quickly catching up. However, he’s not quite as cooperative as Dillon when it comes to having his picture taken. Their grandmother, Joey (next to Dillon), just got back yesterday from Croatia where she had a GREAT time being captain of a 47 foot sailing boat around that part of the Mediterranean for a week. And you thought Tillie was awe-inspiring!
On to Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, where we’re staying with Cyndy - the same Cyndy who joined us earlier for the Lake Louise part of our trip. You can see Cyndy, Mary & John are still thinking of Patty’s birthday tea by the way they’re holding their little fingers.
