Up at 8-30 a.m. for mass at the Church of the Holy Trinity, round the corner, and then ready for the ‘grand tour’ of everywhere I’d not yet made- and Joe insisted I ‘did’ before I returned home later in the week!
Joseph, Nicola and I started at Brooklyn, where we had brunch of steak and eggs at the Heights café http://www.heightscafeny.com/ 
- great, then a walk along Brooklyn heights promenade,
looking across the Hudson River towards Manhattan island.The helicopters were buzzing around, obviously the beautiful day was bringing out lots of people-us included! We 
then walked over the Brooklyn Bridge, looking towards the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
We kept on walking continuing into the financial and city district - City Hall, Supreme Justice Building, then along Wall Street, new york stock exchange, eventually ending up at a highlight…the Irish famine memorial garden in Battery Park http://www.newyorkcitywalk.com/html/images_IrishFamine.html…very moving, ’Slacks cottage’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Hunger_Memorial was taken stone by stone from Ireland, 
at the end of my Mums home lane at Carradoogan…which I had last visited with Susan in 2007 ago .. I also had the pleasure of telling some people around what the significance of it was 
- they were really pleased that I had been able to come …
After many pictures, we then continued along through the West Side village, Meatpacking district and onto the highline park, an old railway line, which has been transformed into a beautiful linear footway, with sunbeds, seats, views, wonderful…then the ’tour’ at an end, it was back home for a short rest !
Later in the evening it was ‘what do you fancy to eat Dad ?’….Mexican says I …’perfect, there’s a great one not far away’….and even though we couldn’t book a table, off we went (in the obligatory taxi) to Rosa Mexicana… http://www.rosamexicano.com/ where after a very short wait we were seated, in a separate booth, with all the glitterati around us !
Pomegranate Margarita’s, followed by watching the waiter mix a special Guacamole in front of us, which we all shared before great Mexican food…
Good choice Dad ! Then …home to bed, rather tired
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