It's not the same is it...
We spent the last 10 days on the East Coast. The first weekend at my brother-in-law's wedding in Connecticut, which was great fun, despite the incredible heat and humidity. My parents, one of the brothers, my sister and her husband were all invited, so after the wedding, we took the kids and the gang of us spent a week in a rented house in Spring Lake, a beautiful little town on the Jersey Shore. The kids had a blast. We spent most of our time on the beach, or in the water. Shane even learned to boogie board.
We headed back to Connecticut last weekend, and on Saturday we jumped on the train to Manhattan, and took the Circle Line cruise around New York harbor. In all my times in NY, I had never done this. In fact I am not sure I have ever seen the Statue of Liberty before, even from the shore!
The picture of the Staten Island ferry reminds me of a joke.
Apparently Staten Island was named by a Limerick man. He was working as a sailor on a Dutch ship exploring what would become Long Island sound. It was extremely foggy, and it was his turn on look out. Seeing an object appearing through the murk, he peered out into the distance and shouted back to his shipmates:
" 'stat an island?"
Knowledge of the Limerick accent makes this funnier.
Labels: Canon 30D, Manhattan, New York, Photography
posted by John Mc at 2:40 PM
4 Comments:
Ha...I have you.If it was a Limerick man 'twould have been 'Stat d'island?'.
I was no distance from you last week .I was buzzing around Teeterboro a few times.
So that was you flying over the beach trailing that big banner advertising The Pike Inn's happy hour and raw bar ?
I'm shuddering at the thought of it.*shudder* See?
Lat time I was in NY, I stood at the top of the south tower. A strange thought occurs to me. The place is still there, but it's no longer surrounded by concrete.
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