Seattle Express

My mom is in town for a few days to visit us in the big apple. Unfortunately she has come in the middle of this rainy stint but luckily the humidity hasn't been too bad. She flew in on the 4th of July in the evening. After getting her settled in the guest room and having dinner we went for a walk around the neighborhood to stretch our legs. As we were walking back to the house we came across a whole bunch of families standing on a street corner staring off into the distance to a bank of trees (this corner is atop a small hill). We figured they knew something we didn't so we hung around and sure enough the Macy's fireworks show started and we could actually see the high flying works over the trees. We stayed for about 10 min but because of the rain we went home and watched the last 10 min on the tv. Who knew we had a fireworks view! On Saturday we went to Woodside to stroll through a street fair. Unfortunately it was a standard street fair and nothing special. Once again the rain started so we headed for the train. My mom had requested a visit to Grand Central Terminal after seeing a PBS special on the building so we spend the rest of the rainy afternoon there checking it out, shopping in the market and having lunch downstairs. Then it was home for homemade pizza (it was cool enough to run the big oven) and a movie. I great first couple days.