Saturday Night

So what to do on a Saturday night? The girls are in their room as they are 'knackered' and so we o on a hunt to get them pizza to take back to their room! After success we go back to the hotel and check they are ok and then we head out ALONE! Three of us...all alone in the big city! He wanted it just to be the two of us..but Linda insisted in coming too!

We just wander and soon find ourselves heading downtown a little and spy a park in the middle of a square of huge towers with lots of people milling about! We go to investigate and discover a place called Bryant Square.(Actually ONLY one block away from the hotel!)  It is located directly behind NYC's main library - the one featured in The Day After Tomorrow. The square is crowded with people. There are hundreds of chairs and picnic tables dotted about in the trees surrounding the park and all across the large grass square in the middle. But it is beyond dusk by this time - but the park is lit like daytime! We look up and on top of one of the vast tower blocks is a bank of huge spotlights that are creating the artificial daylight everyone is enjoying.

People are eating, drinking, sitting reading, chatting, playing chess or surfing on their laptops. The place is buzzing and a range of restaurants at one end are doing a roaring trade. It is a sight to behold. It is very muggy, but they are determined to make the most of the heat and light.
We wander on out of the park and realise then that we are at the library! It is an imposing building and then down at the end of the block we can see the facade of Grand Central Station!
A real piece of New York life!