Day 8

Tuesday...So Rick, Deb and Ashley left today, and I spent the day doing laundry and getting ready for the next crew to come in. We finished early enough to take 4 different subway trains to the Brooklyn Bridge. We walked across into Brooklyn but decided to go back over again to watch the city lights come on. What a beautiful site! We sat on the bridge for an hour and watched all the people....that's always fun..We were then going to head to Pier 17, South Street Seaport to get a bite to eat and instead followed an older man down a stair well and ended up talking to him about the area. I love talking to the locals. He parks his car in Brooklyn and walks the bridge home every night. We asked about places to eat and he told us that the SS seaport is a tourist trap. We walked with him to Front street as he educated us about the fish market that was driven out of the area. He talked about how much the neighborhood had changed. He told us about a wonderful Italian reataurant called Barbarinis...So that's where we had the most amazingly authentic meal. I had the ravioli and Wayne of course had the lasagna. It was on a dark cobblestone street that was very old world....very beautiful and romantic...After that a bit of long walk to the subway and home again. til tomorrow :)