Bulls, Bears and an ode to Chris

This morning we headed to the Brooklyn Bridge and wandered along the South Street piers. When the fish stench got to be too much, we walked along Wall Street to the Stock Exchange. Parts of the street were blocked off from traffic and turned into street markets. After exploring those, we had coffee and lunch at a deli on Wall Street.

We then took the subway up to Rockefeller Center, where we were pleased to see that the ice skating rink was already in place. We also just happened to catch the end of the Columbus Day Parade, full of Italian-themed floats and decorations since Columbus was Italian. We wandered around some shops, including the NBC studios, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, then down 5th Avenue past the New York Public Library (closed for the holiday) and back to our hotel. Dinner was at another Tex-Mex/Hawaiian-Mex type place just around the corner from the hotel.