Mark worked really hard on finding a Kingdom Hall we could attend today and after many phone calls the hall on 20th St is the place to be at 1.30pm. So after having this penciled in we walk to Central Park and sat and watched a bit of baseball being played and did our Watchtower and some Bible reading. Really very pleasant surroundings, loads of trees with squirrels playing and people really relaxed enjoying this wonderful park that New Yorkers are truly thankful to have covering the length of 40 city blocks right in the middle of there city.

After a subway trip and much walking we arrive at the Kingdom Hall to find a group of brothers standing chatting from the Spanish congregation that meets there. No English meeting today, its their District Convention! It was so nice to meet these brothers though. One was a traveling overseer who has just changed from this Manhattan Spanish circuit to one in New Jersey. The circuits overseers wife’s sister and her husband are visiting them from Patterson Bethel and they invite us to be their guests at Patterson on Wednesday when we are there, so nice! So after talking for a while we walk down to the Chelsea Piers, an interesting place with a lot of history. All the big cruise liners docked here in the hey day of the cruise liners. The Titanic was expected here but of course never made it, the survivors were brought there though. Nice cup of coffee in a true New York Bakery, huge and buzzing with New Yorkers going about their favorite past time, socializing!

Mark and Justin visit the worlds largest photographic store, of course! Massive place, I on the other hand read the New York times at Starbucks, very civilized I think! I’m served by a friendly black man whose sales approach was “speak to me” when taking my order!