Summer in the City Day #3:
So, today started early for me. I went to Good Morning America’s Summer Concert Series in Central Park because Sarah McLachlan and Norah Jones gave a free concert. The GMA website advises people to get to Central Park when it opens at 6am, but I wasn’t worried about being first in line. I figured out the trains, navigated Central Park and found the concert location by following the music. The performers were running sound checks and filming promo shots for the morning show when I arrived. Forty-five minutes later George Stephanopoulos introduced the live TV performance. Each woman performed a song for the program, and then played two more songs each for a web concert.
It was a smooth morning, even after I got turned around in Central Park on my out. I still made it to my morning meetings on time!
After our training, development and planning meetings, our team headed downtown to the East Village to enjoy dinner at Khyber Pass, an Afghan restaurant. (I tried the quorma with eggplant and lamb.) We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge (1.13 miles long), then ate at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (wow) before taking the water taxi to the South Street Seaport. By the time we got home to Mid Town at 10.45pm, I was wiped out.
Tomorrow is a work day for us. Our interns arrive tomorrow, and the students arrive on Tuesday, but we’ll get to take Monday off.
Today was long and tiring. But a good day.