rivka

We're going to take the Chinatown Bus (thanks,

melebeth), leaving Baltimore at 7:30am and arriving in New York around 10:30 or 11.

We'll buy all-day transit passes and wander around viewing prominent landmarky things - the Empire State Building (from the outside only, since we don't want to waste half the day in line), the New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Station, Central Park (but where? What should we see?), Times Square. (More or fewer of these, as the spirit moves us and as the subway proves to be a hassle.)

We'll take the Staten Island Ferry, to see views of the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline.

We'll spend a ludicrously inadequate couple of hours in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Perhaps we will meet some of our New York friends for a late-ish dinner.

cattitude?

redbird?

melebeth?

roadnotes and

baldanders?

jmhm?

porcinea and

alexanderjasper?

filkerdave?

We'll get back on the Chinatown bus at 11pm, arriving back in Baltimore around 2:30 in the morning.

We will sleep in and skip church.

Looking over it, this sounds like waaaay too much. But there's a lot of flexibility for things to be left out, if that's what we want to do. I think that just being in New York will be exciting for Maria - she was so happy when we told her that we thought we could manage a trip - she's not going to need to see every famous New York landmark ever. Three or four things that she's seen in movies, and I'm betting she'll go home happy.