Arm patches from support volunteers who came from around the world.

The World Trade Centre site - very somber. The site it just a big pit at the moment with a 15 foot wall around it preventing you from seeing inside it.

Below in the hanger deck

The Intrepid aircraft carrier museum. It served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam & also recovered NASA astronauts.

We took a three-hour cruise around the island. Luckily the ship wasn't the SS Minnow.
Actually, we were told the ship was one of the ones that came to the rescue for the Hudson River plane landing.

Damn liberals - can't carry a gun so you're at the mercy of wildlife...


Damn liberals - I know people didn't like Bush but grafitti is just wrong...

Museum of Natural History - probably could have used another week here.

The whole herd of elephants couldn't fit in the shot...

6th avenue becomes a pedestrian mall on Sundays


people don't know this?

Some night time shots.

Toys-R-Us in Times Square. The dinosaur moves...

Rockefeller Plaza - this is an ice rink in the winter.


Lots of police everywhere...

Shopping at FAO Schwarz...

Cough! Didn't buy one as delivery/setup wasn't included...

Picked myself up a watch in Chinatown. Had to follow the guy a few blocks - I suspected it might be a bit shady deal as he didn't want police around.

I actually started getting a bit nervous as he kept calling someone on his cell phone. Eventually we came up to a lady who asked if I wanted mens or ladies watches. I said "mens" and she called a third person using a phone in her hoodie, and then a third guy walked up and slipped her a handful of Rolex watches.

She wanted $55, I offerred $20 and we settled for $30. It seems to keep good time and "Rolex" is actually spelled correctly so I'm happy with it.

M&M Store in Times Square



NY Post Office - 2nd biggest in the US.

Saw the Empire State building, but it was so overcast there was no sense to go up to the top.



Brooklyn Bridge

I had won tickets to the Letterman show. We happened to be at the taping where he got into trouble for his Sarah Palin jokes.

The guests were Howard Stern, Bruce Willis and musical guest Mos Def. Two out of three weren't bad...



Our 0.15 seconds of fame...

It was a fun experience. You're told to be enthuastic and do lots of laughing/clapping as your participation makes the show better. Your hands get tired from the clapping. They have a warm-up comedian, then play a classic clip of Dave working a Taco Bell drive-thru, then have the band introduced and start playing before they jump into the show.
The show is only taped Monday-Thursday so there were two tapings the first day. Our taping went from ~5:00-6:00pm and played that same Monday evening. Basically what you see on the show is what goes on during the taping, except that the band plays through what would be the commercial breaks and Dave also has stage crew come up and talk to him.