Thursday (Day 5): East Coast Adventures

Finally slept in for a day at Henderson's place as his air conditioning was getting fixed. Gave him a ride into school and got lunch at this hoggie place with massive (18 in+ long) sandwiches for relatively cheap. After lunch, I took the Princeton dinky to the NJ transit rail which brought me into Penn Station. I've been here 4 times now, but it always seems to send a little shock into your system when you enter Manhattan. A lot of people and tall buildings.
     deLaubs had work until 5:30, so I spent my free time at the new WTC Memorial. It was fantastic. In the three other times I've been to NYC, I've seen it transition to a large hole in the ground, to a blocked off memorial in progress, to a nearly completed plaza. I ended up befriending an employee and talking to him for a while about the memorial and the "survivor tree" that has lived through all the hurricanes and terrorists attacks and has been again replanted at the same site!
     The day wrapped up with meeting deLaubs, catching a dirty hot run on the East River, and eating some fantastic Sri Lankan food for dinner. A great start to my time in New York.

Day High: The Sri Lankan food with deLaubs was amazing! Very good to catch up and great quality.
Day Low: The run I suppose? Legs were tired and it was balls hot out. Though it was great scenery. Not many lows to this day.
Stats: 
Miles: 10 or so
States: New Jersey, New York
New License Plates: LA, NM
New Bird Species: Canada Goose, Cormorant