C.J. and Mary Do New York. Part 3. Oct. 2011.

C.J. and I had both been to Grand Central Station before but it's SO big and has alot of history and there's so much to see. I could spend hours there. This is a really cool European style market in GCS that has the best looking food...good thing we weren't hungry. They have separate "stores" with flowers, cheese, chocolates, bakeries, fresh fish, ready made entrees etc. etc. ETC!! The cut flowers for sale in New York City are just gorgeous and they have big pots of pretty plants on all the streets. People were hurrying to buy food and catch their trains.

I took very few of the photos on this blog. The internet ones are so much better. This is Grand Central's main entrance.

Aren't these lights beautiful? When they were restored they were so dirty they thought they were brass and were amazed to find they are gold. As we walked around I read historical trivia to C.J. from an internet print out about the stuff we were looking at. The story of the building's history & restoration etc. is amazing.

It's hard to find a good picture of the ceiling. It has the zodiac and stars and all kinds of beautiful stuff painted on it. It also has fiber optic lights to light up the 2500 stars up there.

This is not a very good photo that I took of this "tree" hanging from the ceiling right inside one of the side entrances that leads to the market..it was covered with crystals. It doesn't look sparkly here...but it WAS sparkly. GCS also has other stores and restaurants.

The famous clock in the center of the grand lobby in Grand Central Station...you see it in movies and stuff. It's a famous meeting place. You tell your friends "Meet me at the clock".

This is right beside our hotel and the view across the river is Queens, NY. We kept trying to get a good shot of this neon Pepsi sign but just couldn't zoom in well enough. There's a Pepsi bottle just to the right that you can't see very well.

The gang having silly fun. Left to right: C.J., Jamey, Patrick, David and Tracy. We had just had some very good Italian food. David works at a really top notch, famous and up and coming hair salon in the village and Jamey got David to cut my hair. The salon had a cute French Bulldog named Sophia and we drank Mimosas while I had my hair done. Tracy works at an art gallery and I had just met Patrick so don't know what he does...but they ALL make me laugh alot. All of Jamey's pals seemed so happy to meet us. I'm sorry we didn't get out to Brooklyn to meet some of her other friends.

This is the restaurant...Spice Market...where Jamey's boyfriend Diego works and we had the most wonderful meal for my birthday lunch there. It's very Indian/Morocco/Marrakesh like. Loved the food, loved the decor and the employees were extra nice to us.

We spent THREE hours at Spice Market and shared 4 appetizers, 4 entrees and they brought the nicest array of 4 desserts with "Happy Birthday" written on the plate in chocolate. Google it and check out their website and menu. This is downstairs. The building is an old slaughter house in the Meat Packing District. They have lovely private rooms down there for VIP celebrities and such.

Diego bought us all lunch and he's a very sweet and kind and sneaky guy! The food was SO good. We sat in this area.

C.J. on "the couch"...looking cute...like she always does. I sure love that clock! We made a quick stop at Andrew Moore Studios to meet Jamey's boss and to see where she works. Very cool space and Andrew is very nice. Jamey drove us some places in "Little Red"...the car we gave her a few years ago. She drives like a real New Yorker...as she should...with lots of confidence and her hand on the horn...and she can parallel park like nobody's business.