Katelyn and Gregory Haskins find their way through—and around—the world
Seeing New York was definitely a priority on our planes, trains, and automobiles trip. I mean, how could Katie see any more of the world without first seeing the Big Apple? But she’d have to wait first. After arriving at Penn station, we had to take the subway out to Brooklyn to check into the hotel, then back into Manhattan at Rockefeller Plaza before she could catch her first glimpse of the city. She was mildly excited, to say the least.
On our way to see His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, it became apparent that cell phones would not be allowed into Crisler Arena. It was a good thing I remembered a few things from the International Spy Museum, because I orchestrated a dead drop to myself. That bush over by the Plant Ops building looked innocuous enough, and I was pleased to find my phone still there a couple hours later, despite poor technique on my part—I could have been made!
“…people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.” -Austin Powers. Well actually, we quite like the Dutch. And their pancakes.
The Uffizi was closed yesterday, so today was our only chance to see the famed Renaissance gallery. Once again, Katelyn was thrilled to see the subjects of her studies and tried not to linger too long in front of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. Tour groups were somewhat annoying but the pretty pictures made it more than worth while. Unfortunately we were unable to locate the mythical Bernini sculpture collection that was fabled to be there but we probably would have had to call the fire department to separate Katelyn from them anyway.
