Our Great Adventure - Arrival at the Big Apple!

Our arrival in NYC via a Puddle Jumper was uneventful.  We took a shuttle to our hotel and that was also uneventful.  Our hotel was directly on Times Square.

If you have seen the ball drop on New Year's Eve, you know that Times Square can hold a whole lot of people.  The only difference between the night of our arrival and New Year's Eve is that the crowd was mobile and on New Year's Eve they are standing still.  

                            

We were bumped, jostled, tripped, and nudged, but Randy didn't let go of my hand and I didn't get lost.  We arrived around 6:00 and I looked out of our hotel room window and saw "Virgil's BBQ" a couple of blocks away.  We had tried to find a BBQ place on the way to the Charlotte Airport before we left NC but couldn't find one on Google that would be convenient for us to stop.  I was craving BBQ and so we figured, what the heck, if it didn't look ok ww would find something else.  

Welcome to Virgil's BBQ

The sauce was a little sweeter than I'm used to and a little more tomatoey but I added some of Virgil's XXX Hot Sauce and I'm going to tell you, it was pretty doggone good.  (Biggify that picture and you'll see that it was good).

After dinner we walked around times square and sat on the bleachers just watching the crowd.  We marveled at the fact that we heard more foreign accents being spoken than American accents.  Other countries may not appreciate the US but they love to visit our decadence.   

My personal tour guide

The above photo is the view from our room.  Thank goodness for blackout draperies! That large building all covered with light panels was dead center of Times Square with the ball on the top that drops.... guess what is at it's base on street level..... Walgreens!  Ha!  Imagine that!  A little triangular drugstore surrounded by a churning sea of humanity!  Now we were off to get some rest because tomorrow our adventure would start in earnest!