For work I spent two weeks at Crotonville, our corporate training facility. As part of the class, we spent the weekend in New York City. Since our visit in April, I have a new found appreciation for the city and actually had a good time. We went and saw the Beatles cover band, "Rain" (maybe cover band is not the right word...this was a band that looked and acted like the Beatles, not just sang their songs)...it was OK. I think I would have preferred seeing a Smiths version of the same thing...that is a band I wish I could have seen, and seeing Morrissey a few times was nice, but not the same...anyway...about New York...I visited Battery Park, Wallstreet, and even where Strauss-Kahn was hiding out under house arrest (we thought it was a movie set with all the cameras, turns out it was cameras waiting to catch a glimpse of hit. I also went to Ground Zero, which was a little more potent for me this time since we had the opportunity earlier in the week to spend an hour listening to one of the handful of firefighters to get out alive that was actually IN the tower when the second tower was hit. It was quite emotional. We were living in Mexico when the tragedy happened, so admittedly we felt a lot further away from the reality of what was going on. Obviously we live with the ramifications of the event seemingly every day, but ten years later, it probably feels more real than it ever has. It was a nice weekend in the city.
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