Balaji dropped us at the statation on the way to his office at 7am. Took the City Sights NY - Hop on - Hop off open bus conducted tour. Uptown followed by DownTown. Got out and took Statue of Liberty trip. After that took Brooklyn tour. Back to Pen station in the evening. Nandhini picked us up from Metchen. The earlier part was bit windy and cold but it became very hot soon. Only after it cooled down in the evening went for my evening walk. Slept around 9 pm since did not take a nap from 4am. Train Tickets. In the vending machine tickets and remaining change are dropped together. After going to the platform realized $2 change is missing. Went back to the vending machine and found the coins in the corner. Boarded the ... read more

N got up at 930pm and had dinner. Watched what we thought was the old version of Titanic movie, but that happened to be a serial. Then watched the last part of Bodyguard, screened to celebrate 20 years of it's release and then watched Officer and Gentleman, celebrating it's 30th year. Nandhini and alaji came home after drama at around 10.30pm. They enjoyed the play put up by the Indian community 'Americavil Thiruvilaiyadal' and Crazy Mohan's 'Chocolate Krishna'. Nandhini's neighbor, living in the opposit apt. popped in. They are telugu people and have a 1 year old son Sai. They left at 11.30pm and Nandhini and fly retired to bed. They were really tired. We continued watching Officer and a Gentleman and slept at 1.00am. In the Costco we saw many old ladies working as sample ... read more

Flight started on time ie., 1..00 am (Friday 13th morning). had window seat. I was already getting a bit hungry even while waiting at the airport, but did not eat anything b'cos i knew they would give something in the flight. They gave a veg. roll sort of thing and juice. R ate only a quarter of his roll. I was hungry and finished mine and his. Saw half of a movie called 'We bought zoo' (Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson). Slept well through the night. After getting up in the morning had a nice view of snow capped mountains somewhere above Turkey alongside Black Sea. After, what felt like a long wait got breakfast of masala dosai, upma and sambar and of course the kutti bun. Opted for coffee. It was horrible..black and bitter! Watched ... read more