Day 9 was again a wonderful day.
We were so thankful to everyone who made an effort to send us off from Scituate High School. The same faces who welcomed us turned up again. Scituate, and Scituate High School pulled out all the stops again for us with Brenda up all night baking for us just in case we starved on our bus journey! Stocked up with her brownies, cookies and water it was off to New York.
Our bus driver David gave excellent commentary on route to New York. We passed through five states: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. We passed Yale University in New Haven, The New York Giants Stadium and the headquarters of WWE.
In New York City we met our guide Derek who took us on a tour of Central Park. We passed the Dakota building where John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived and where John was shot. We saw Bethesda Fountain, the Strawberry Fields and walked over Bow Bridge, a spot that’s popular for any future proposals! We were in the Ramble, Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, Lincoln Centre & Juilliard School of Music. We saw kids with back packs bigger than their bodies, dog walkers, costume characters in Time Square like Elmo, Spider-Man and Mickey Mouse.
Students really liked the Grand Slam Gift shop, bought souvenir gift cups, saw Hell’s Kitchen, and then we went to the American Museum of Natural History. We had a lovely dinner in The Hard Rock Cafe where we spoke to Sage who had proud Irish heritage.
We walked through Time Square to get to the musical, “Back to the Future”. Everyone had a wonderful night at the musical. Everyone slept well in their hotel rooms.
We had our own private security guard called Judy. She monitored everything for the night on our corridor as we all slept safe and sound!
