Karen and Scott go to New York, August 2002

Karen and Scott go to New York, August 2002

In August 2002, Scott and I went to New York to attend his sister's wedding. We decided that since were going all that way we would also spend a couple of days in New York City. While there, we planned to visit Ground Zero and attend a Yankees baseball game.

The wedding took place at the beautiful Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Gardens located in North Salem, NY, about an hour north of New York City.

Among the beautiful trees and bushes was this very crooked tree. We couldn't figure out what made it that way, but it seemed to be growing just fine.

Here are a couple of snapshots from the rehearsal on Friday afternoon.

The little girl is Scott's niece, Maya. She's with her dad, Paul, who is Scott's brother. Beside them is Greta, Maya's mommy, and with her back to us is Sue, the bride. The man on the far left is a friend of Sue and Rick's.

Scott and Paul were to walk Sue down the aisle. Scott seems to be a bit uncertain about the concept. :)

This is a nice picture of Paul and Maya next to the pond.

Before the wedding ceremony.

Scott and I arrived early to the wedding, so we hung out in the reception tent. He's pretty handsome in his tux, isn't he?

Greta and Maya arrive at the Museum. Isn't she a cutie?

Paul, Sue and Scott. Great smiles!

The Morgan side of the family-to-be. Paul, Charlie, Margo (mom), Sue, Bob (dad), Barbara, Scott, Greta, Maya, Grandma and me.

The siblings picture: Paul, Scott, Sue, Rick (the groom), Rhonda (Rick's sister), and John (Rick's brother).

Sue and Rick's dogs Max and Roxy arrived to be the pictures. In the background on the left is Joey, Rick's nephew and ring bearer.

Maya doesn't look so sure she wants to get in on the playtime.

When all the wedding stuff was done, we travelled back to New York city, returned the rental car, and became subway riders. Unfortunately, the weather was pretty icky, as you'll be able to see from some of the shots.

Here we're walking through Rockefeller Center. We passed this neat "sculpture garden" of old cars.

This scuplture is in Rockefeller Plaza where the skating rink is in the winter.

This is one of the side entrances for St. Patrick's Cathedral. The inside pictures I took came out poorly, and I couldn't get a good picture of the front, so here's what I did get!

These are some snapshots of Ground Zero. It wasn't too crowded, probably because the weather was bad. Fortunately, we went when we did, however, because the next day we wouldn't have been able to get in because Congress was coming to visit.

This is what is referred to as "The Hole". Hard to believe two huge towers fit into this area.

This is the infamous "girder cross" which survived the collapse.

This banner hangs over the back of the walkway where the spectators stand.

This building, right next to where the towers were wears a black shroud which sports an American flag and a banner which includes the phrases "We will never forget them. We will never forget you".

The view from inside the walkway to One World Financial Center.

Around the other side of the WTC area. If the towers were still standing, you could see them in that gap between these buildings.

At _______, in one direction you can see the Statue of Liberty. If you turn around you'll see large flags hung on the side of a building. These flags are easily visible from the harbor, and, I'm sure, from the Statue.

We found something new in our wander around the Ground Zero and harbor area -- the Irish Hunger Memorial. It opened in July 2002.

This picture is from around the non-spectator platform side of Ground Zero. Most of the streets immediately around the WTC site are still closed to automobile traffic.

This is one of the memorials to firefighters and police officers who died in the collapse.

One of the "wounded" buildings nearby.

The next day we walked to, through, and all around Central Park on an insanely circuitous 2.5-hour walk to Tavern on the Green for lunch. Oh yes, and then walked all the way back to the hotel afterwards.

We visited this "castle" in the park. There's naturalist-type stuff to educate kids... _________

This is a view of the city from the castle. While there, we ran into one of the park naturalists who was looking for hawks. We did see a couple far far away, but too far to take a picture of them.

This is my usual "straight down from the top" picture from the castle.

The Yankees Game

On the evening before we came home, we went to see the Boston Red Sox play the New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium. We were glad the weather had finally cleared up AND that the baseball strike had been avoided. The Yanks are probably wishing now (during MLB playoffs) that they did go on strike!

Outside the stadium are, literally, a dozen Yankees-stuff shops. Pretty much anything Yankees you want, you can find it here.

Pre-game batting practice. You can tell we got there really really really early!

'Way out in center field is Monument Park. We had planned to go there, but we didn't know the secret to getting into the stadium and how to avoid the 2-hour line to get in, so we had to miss it. Maybe next time.

Scott told the Yankees that I was coming, so they said hello on the scoreboard! Fellow Dodger fans, don't worry -- I'm not goin' Yankee (that's Scott's job).

The final score: Yankees 4, Red Sox 2.

The End! We hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we did.

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