Craig's blog

Today we slept in, then we had breakfast with Patty’s friend Chris who was also in New York.  We then took the subway downtown to see ground zero and the 9-11 memorials, museum and the brand new One World Observatory.  It was a great experience although the views from the 100the floor of the observatory were minimal because of weather.

We then headed back up town (I stopped short of our hotel to pick up Jessie’s suitcase from her hotel) to get to our hotel.  We had dinner at a New York diner and then went to Carnegie Hall to watch Jessie and Cantabile perform.

The concert was great.  It was opened by Cantabile.  They were fantastic as always and did a bunch of fun music with lots of movement.

After the intermission there was a youth orchestra that was good, but played boring music that put everyone (except their parents) to sleep.  Cantabile, by contrast, got a standing ovation.

The concert ended with an adult chamber group and adult choir singing a number of pieces from the Messiah. I really enjoyed it.

After the concert we left Jessie because she had wanted to go to the Cantabile party that was being held at a restaurant in Times Square.  We went to a restaurant had desert.  Then I went to the party to pick her up only to learn that she had checked a backpack along with her suitcase at her hotel.  It was not about 12:30 at night (and we were leaving at 4:30 AM for the airport).  I walked to her hotel, got her backpack, walked back to her restaurant, got her and we walked back to our hotel.  We got a few hours of sleep before getting up for our taxi ride to the airport.