The Lucille

On Thursday of this week, Kevin's company had a boatride/lunch for the NYC office. Kimberly agreed to go along, meet the colleagues, and eat. It's a good thing she did because attendance was a little light. Anyway, we got some really good views of lower Manhattan. (Note Kevin's windblown hair in the pic above.)




The trip started an hour late because the captain of the boat wasn't there. But he made up for it by taking it nice and slow around Liberty Island so there were lots of photo opportunities. And so here is a pic of a lovely lady...
(What? just one of them is lovely???)




We watched them loading containers onto ships, and wondered about what was in them and where they were going and just how much frickin' stuff it was.

Here is the Long Island equivalent of the famous Hollywood sign, in case you couldn't figure out that it was Long Island. We were less certain about the names of the other islands...Ellis Island was clear, Liberty Island, Roosevelt Island, too, and we think we knew which was Governor's Island. There were some teeny tiny islands, the kind castaways land on, and one had some kind of weather monitoring devices on it.

We were both surprised to see the Pepsi landmark, as we had heard it was being taken down.

We went under a bunch of the East River bridges. I think this one is the Williamsburg Bridge...I remember snapping it because Kevin wanted a picture of the bridge he rides over to work most days (you can kinda see the train in this picture, too). I guess he looks so happy in the picture because he's not on the train going to work?

We almost missed the cake. We knew there was supposed to be a sheet cake, and we kept waiting for the announcement, and waited and waited until Kevin asked a colleague under his breath "hey, I thought there was supposed to be cake" and she told us that yeah, it was downstairs with the food. So 15 minutes before docking we snarfed down some chocolate cake.

Oh, and did we mention that after almost 2 months straight of sunny, hot weather, this trip happened to fall on a drizzly, cold, gray day?

This boat followed in the Lucille's wake for a while. In the background you can see Lady Liberty, and even fuzzier behind that you can see the container boat lading machinery, probably on the NJ side.

We didn't get a photo of the other boats moored at the marina (one is a huge paddleboat that can hold 400 people) or the pontoon airplane that landed and docked there to much interest and surprise by all of us waiting for the tour to begin.

And happily, neither of us got seasick and there were no tidal waves.