NY Adventure Part IX (Last Day)

We headed back to Central Park this morning (without the frog this time). We spent some time at the zoo (its really tiny, and we will head to the Bronx Zoo the next time we are here). But the weather was so nice, and the sea lions and the polar bears were out and active. That was fun. We had a quick lunch at the little zoo cafe called "The Leaping Frog"...the food was unremarkable, but I loved the name of the place. We prowled around the park for a while longer, taking in the sights of Bethesda Fountain, the Mall, and enjoying some excellent music from some of the street musicians.

After that we decided to check out China Town. It was packed with people (not as bad as that parade though), but we strolled around town for quite a while. There was so much to see....street vendors all over the place with all kinds of trinkets, and food. We saw some freaky fruits that we ended up having to come back and google (one was dragon fruit...I never heard of it before). There were tons of shops, and interesting things to check out. We stopped in at a Chinese bakery and had some kind of coffee mousse thingie that was delicious.

Then we browsed through Little Italy and parts of Soho. We ended up walking a whole lot of today. But these were places that I really wanted to see. I did decide one thing....if I ever lived here in the city, I would just have to be a Manhattan girl. These other burroughs are colorful and interesting, but not nearly as clean and as nice as Manhattan. Even the subways down in those parts of town are a little shabby. And the trains were a lot slower to arrive, too. We haven't experienced any kind of delay as far as the trains go up here in Midtown. But we waited for what seemed like an eternity down there. We stopped by Katz's deli in Soho....The scene of Meg Ryan's famously faked orgasm in "When Harry Met Sally". We thought about eating there, but had just had that coffee mousse and we just weren't hungry. We did run inside, and funny enough, they have a sign hanging down from the ceiling pointing out the exact spot where that was filmed. Bruce got a picture of that. I've heard that the food is excellent, but most of the food here has been.

Now its time to start packing up to come back home. I'm tired and a little bit ready to get back home again. I will miss this place though. We have had a really good time. And I will definitely make it a point to come back again. The high points for me have been:
1. Shopping
2. Broadway shows
3. The Museums
4. The food....oh the yummy wonderful food in this town!!!!

And I loved it all in that exact order....Ha!