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05-14-06:
The Magnolia Bakery, famous for its delicious cupcakes! |
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05-14-06:
Julia devours a cupcake in the park. |
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05-14-06:
A local pigeon scavenging for cupcake remains in the trash can. |
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05-14-06:
Here we are merrily eating our cupcake breakfast. |
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05-14-06:
Julia outside the American Museum of Natural History (her favorite!). |
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05-14-06:
Julia taking a stroll down West 46th Street. |
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05-14-06:
Some street vendors pulling their carts down the street. We had just
seen the movie
Man Push Cart, so this seemed significant. |
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05-14-06:
St. Patrick's Cathedral. |
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05-14-06:
Inside St. Patrick's Cathedral. |
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05-14-06:
The CBS studios and the Ed Sullivan Theater where David Letterman is
taped. |
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05-14-06:
The Hello Deli often featured on Letterman (more on this later). |
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05-14-06:
Jonas strolling around the Times Square area. |
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05-14-06:
A view of the Chrysler Building in the distance. |
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05-14-06:
A really nice picture of the Chrysler Building with Grand Central
Station in the foreground. |
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05-14-06:
Here we are having cocktails at Cipriani Dolci inside Grand Central
Station. |
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05-14-06:
Jonas inside the lobby
of the Empire State Building. |
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05-14-06:
Having some fun while waiting for our elevator to the top! |
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05-14-06:
A view from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. |
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05-14-06:
Another view.
It was kind of difficult for the camera to auto-focus since it was
dark out. |
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05-14-06:
Another view! |
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05-14-06:
Another shot from the top. |
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05-14-06:
Julia showing off her pickle at the Carnegie Deli. |
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05-14-06:
Jonas' enormous sandwich that he could barely make a dent in. In the
background, Julia is trying not to laugh. |
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05-14-06:
Julia getting sleepy on the subway back to the hotel. |
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05-15-06:
Waiting in line for tickets to David Letterman early in the morning. |
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05-15-06:
Waiting in line outside for our taping of Letterman. |
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05-15-06:
Jonas meeting Biff Henderson walking down the street! He was kind
enough to let us take a picture. |
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05-15-06:
No, he didn't pass out in a taxi. We're on our way to see The Phantom
of the Opera on Broadway, and Jonas is changing in to more
theater-appropriate clothing en route! |
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05-15-06:
Julia says: Enough NYC! Let's get out of town! |
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05-16-06:
We had breakfast at Bagels & Deli after staying the night at the
Skytop Motel in Kingston, NY. |
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05-16-06:
The Ashokan Reservoir
in the Catskill Mountains. This is one of the watersheds that supplies
much of the water to NYC. |
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05-16-06:
It was a pretty wet and dreary day. |
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05-16-06:
Downstream of the Ashokan Dam. |
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05-16-06:
A view of the reservoir and the low, misty clouds. |
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05-16-06:
Another view of the vast Ashokan Reservoir. |
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05-16-06:
Bastion Falls, which are located right at the trailhead to Kaaterskill
Falls. |
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05-16-06:
Kaaterskill Falls, the highest waterfalls in New York State (260
feet). It was just 20 minutes to hike here from the trailhead. |
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05-16-06:
Jonas in the area around Kaaterskill Falls. It was quite wet and
rainy, so footing was somewhat precarious and slippery. |
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05-16-06:
Julia sitting next to the falls. |
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05-16-06:
Jonas hiking back to
the trailhead where we parked our car. |
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05-16-06:
Our fantastic room at Art Devlin's Olympic Motor Inn. Art Devlin was
an accomplished Olympic ski jumper back in the day. His son now runs
the motel. |
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05-16-06:
Another shot of our motel room. It really exceeded our expectations! |
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05-16-06:
Julia writing postcards in her jammies. |
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05-17-06:
Jonas checking his
work email while on vacation (like the big geek he is!). |
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05-17-06:
Jonas zeroing in on a geocache. |
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05-16-06:
Jonas searching for a geocache. |
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05-17-06:
Jonas getting his picture taken while taking a picture himself. |
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