Jumping ahead

First warship sailing up...

The last staircase left standing in the rubble

WTC construction site

View from the 32nd Fl Conference Room

Dismantling the Deutsche Bank building

FDNY ceremonial tugboat to kick off the parade

Between the World Financial Center's buildings (notice people on the balcony)

Geez, blogging and uploading are t-e-d-i-o-u-s. So I'll just share my photo albums via shutterfly.com and fast forward the time line to the present week.

Wednesday was the start of Fleet Week and Jackie was all excited about sailors and ships coming to town. We got an invite to a party Saturday night where we are to look for 'Major Dave' ;-) The parade of ships up the Hudson started at about 9:30 am, and Marta & I hightailed it to the 32nd floor Conference Room downstairs to take pictures (well I did, she didn't have her camera). The parade was too slow going so we didn't even wait for the fly-by.

We left early on Friday for the long (Memorial Day) weekend, and to celebrate Tara's birthday, off to the South Sea Seaport we went. It was hot and sunny, so I got a bit sunburned. When the sun went down, we moved the party train to Ulysses. I've never been there before and was truly loving the fact that everyone was sitting out on blocked-off cobblestone streets, enjoying the weather and good company amid the contrast of old building and modern highrises. I was cursing myself for not having the camera, but am sure we'll be there again many more times. Our mission to get Tara trashed hadn't come to fruition by the time the sober half of us left, so will see come next Tuesday what the goss is.