Jamie Thingelstad

Rained all day.
18,065 steps.

• Yummy Liberty Bagels.
• Walked to B&H..
• Ducked into Whole Foods to escape rain, got hot chocolate.
• Walked to High Line.
• Departed High Line for Chelsea Market.
• Explored Chelsea Market, including cheeseburger and book store.
• Stop at Apple Store 14th Street.
• Walked in rain to take R to 28th Street.
• Walk to the flagship Milk Bar store.
• Take R train to City Hall.
• Walk to Regal Theater in Battery Park.
• Go to a movie!
• Dinner at El Vez.
• 4 Train to 42nd Street.
• Escape room at Escape the Room.
• Walk back to the hotel.

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We successfully escaped from the Playground room at The Escape Game in New York! It was a fun room with a wide variety of puzzles to solve. It took a while for us to get momentum, but with some time (and some clues) we got going and escaped with exactly 1 minute on the clock!

See list of escape rooms.

Seeking some respite from the constant rain we decided to see Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. at the Regal Cinemas in Battery Park. It turns out in Manhattan movie theaters go up several floors. Tammy had fond memories of reading this book, and the movie was really good too.

Walking the High Line is now a tradition for any trip to New York. We hoped to find a break in the rain to make the walk but no break was to be found. We ended up getting off the path at Chelsea Market to explore and have lunch.

Other times on the High Line: 2012, 2018, 2023 (Tyler and I), 2023 (Tammy and I), and 2023 (Family).

New York Bagels at Liberty Bagels in Midtown! 🥯

Rained all day.
17,823 steps.

• Kids got Dad coffee.
• Angelina for snack.
• Took F train to Brooklyn.
• Brunch with Greg and Annique at Frankies.
• Took F train to York.
• Walk to Brooklyn Bridge.
• Walk across boardwalk on Brooklyn bridge and got super wet.
• Took R train and accidentally needed up at MOMA Store, not MOMA?
• Took train to actual MOMA.
• Discovered largest line ever waiting for MOMA.
• Everyone in NY inside MOMA hiding from rain.
• Return to Hotel to change into dry clothes.
• Attempted Joe’s Pizza, line too long.
• Attempted Los Tacos, line too long.
• Went to Harry Potter.
• Returned to Joes Pizza for late night slices.
• Went to CVS and bought newspapers to stuff into wet shoes.
• Walked back to hotel.

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How about a few giant slices of pizza at nearly midnight? Sure!

What do you do when you visit the Museum of Modern Art? Well for many it seems that you navigate your way to Van Gogh’s Starry Night and take a picture of it in a fairly unhelpful mass of people.

I wonder, how many gigabytes of photos are taken of Starry Night each day?

What to do when you want to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge but it’s raining? Go anyway. We were really wet by the time we got to the other side. Shoes squishing with water wet. Was it worth it? Probably. ☔️

We took the F Train to Brooklyn and had an awesome brunch with Greg and his family. Greg and I met as freshman roommates at the University of Minnesota and became fast friends. It was the first time we were able to get our entire families together, and first I had seen him since 2018.

Seeing Bono’s “Surrender” at the Beacon Theater tonight was one of the most engaging performances I’ve ever seen. Two hours with Bono sharing stories of U2, his youth, and mixed with powerful and inimate performances of U2 songs. Incredible and magical. ✨

It is weird to me that I’ve been to Manhattan hundreds of times over the years, but I’ve never really gone into Central Park at all. We decided to walk from our hotel up and through Central Park to the Beacon Theatre to see Bono and it was so cool to explore a bit of the park.

Ran into the Incredible Hulk at the LEGO Store on 5th Avenue. This place was great. We wanted to do more stuff than we had time.

We were passing St. Patrick’s Cathedral and decided to go in and look around. It is was an amazing place to visit. It left us all a bit awe struck.

Catching NJ Transit from Newark to NY Penn Station.