Manhattan Temple

It is a rainy day in New York. We caught the subway at about 10:00 AM and headed to the Temple. It doesn't look like much from the outside. I guess it used to be the mission headquarters (it might still be) and they have a couple of wards that meet in the same building for Sunday services. It was really pretty on the inside and we enjoyed our session. It was quite international in flavor, just like the rest of this city.

Following our session we posed for this photo. There was another family visiting from somewhere and we traded photos (they took ours, we took theirs). We also met a man that works for O. C. Tanner in SLC who was in New York on business and took a break to attend the session with us.

Because we had purchased an unlimited ride pass on the Subway, today was our Subway day. We rode over to Grand Central Station after the temple and found something to eat. This is a huge station and there are shops and restaurants everywhere. Bubby and I went to a Jewish deli called Mendy's Kosher Deli and had a pastrami sandwich with the coleslaw right on the sandwich. We couldn't agree on dessert, so we wandered extensively until we found a pecan bar at the big Grand Central Market. It was really good. It was a rainy miserable day, so following the temple and lunch we came back to the hotel and holed up for a while.

We checked the weather forecast and went to the Yankees' website to see if the game was going to be canceled because of the rain, but the decision was not made that far in advance. So at 4:45 we caught the subway out to Yankee Stadium and hung around in the concession area waiting for the rain to stop. We had a Nathan's hot dog and I can honestly say, I don't need to do that again.

It was raining steadily while we waited and I took a photo of the covered infield.

They finally announced postponement at about 7:30 PM. Of course we could exchange our tickets for any other home game, but that won't do us much good. I guess we will have to eat them. I will contact StubHub, who sold them to us, and see if their guarantee covers rained out games. This was a greater disappointment to President Wilson than anybody else. He is enough of a Yankee fan that he had to buy two fitted caps at the stadium (and nowhere else) and was willing to pay $40 each for them.

Jan was disappointed that she didn't get to eat her $6 bag of Cracker Jack, but we caught the Subway and headed back to Times Square. We visited Roxy Deli for soup and a piece of New York cheesecake and that was the end of this rainy and disappointing day.

Buboppy