NYC Day 2 and Bethlehem

Sunday was the day that we would rendezvous with Thomas, which is how this whole thing started in the first place. But that wouldn't happen until the afternoon, as the group was off staying busy through midday. In the meantime we had a plan to see Central Park, a part of New York that would be new to DJ.

Liz and I let DJ sleep in a bit and took a short walk to Broad Nosh Bagels. I don't know how this place stacks up in terms of New York bagels, but for us it was tremendous. The bagels were huge and came with just the right amount of cream cheese (cucumber for Liz; sun-dried tomato for me). Absolutely fantastic. We also picked up a chocolate babka that we wound up nibbling at for days to come.

We took a bagel for DJ back to the hotel. After he'd eaten we headed out to take the subway up to the north end of Central Park. From there we zig-zagged our way all the way back down to Columbus Circle. It was a beautiful morning and we thoroughly enjoyed our tour of the park. We worked up an appetite so we had some pizza for lunch (you can never have too much pizza in NYC can you?).

At this point it was time to fetch Thomas and head out on our next leg. Our next "real" stop was Sandusky, OH, for Cedar Point. Rather than spend the night in New York and leave first thing Monday, meaning an expensive hotel and Monday morning traffic, we decided that we'd head out Sunday afternoon and get a head start on the drive to Ohio. We got Thomas and his friend Edison who would travel with us to Ohio to meet up with his family there, and headed out of Manhattan. There was some traffic getting back out through the tunnel. but nothing compared to coming into the city.

Our overnight was in Bethlehem, PA. We got there in time to have dinner and walk around downtown a bit before calling it a day.Read more