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We’ve had an easy morning - got up & out of the hotel by ten. It’s cooler today - although even yesterday was only slightly warmer than it’s been in Dublin the past few days. There’s a nice breeze today too, which makes a big difference!

We walked from the hotel down to Grand Central Station - wow, it’s *huge* - and beautiful. Many, many pictures were taken, and I even got to try out some funky things with slightly longer exposures, because there were handy ledges to lean the camera on… Met Reb there, which was slightly weird, but fun. He’s working in IT in a bank in New York, having spent the last year in Atlanta (Georgia), on a college exchange thing.

After that, it was subway time, down to SoHo. We didn’t explore much, just went to the Apple Store. I got Tiger, and Colm bought a new laptop bag - it’s practically *made* for his Vaio! So he’s delighted with that. Despite much shopping (Gap, Toys’R'Us, Swatch), the only other purchase was of 100 yards of dental floss for mum (I’m not certain it’s the right stuff - dental tape doesn’t seem to exist here - but it’s cheap enough that it really makes no odds if it’s never used!).

Actually - that’s not true. We also bought tickets to The Producers, on Wednesday afternoon - it does look like fun! Now we’re off to enjoy lunch at Sardi’s, and a nice Baked Alaska for dessert!