On April 22nd, Sharon and I took the train into Manhattan (Grand Central Station). We walked all the way down Park, and then Lexington down to the Lower East Side. We had a fascinating tour of the Tenement Museum which is a well-preserved actual look at what life was like for immigrants who lived there from 1863 - 1935. It was where the garment district began. We walked over to Little Italy for a great lunch, then back to the train by way of Lafayette St, past Union Square and up Park again. We happened across the armory where the 69th New York regiment had their base during the Civil War.

On April 19th, Sharon and I took Dylan, Jesse, Nick and Julia to the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT. There were interesting items there related to the original circus, but most interesting were the personal items that once belonged to Tom Thumb including the carriage he rode around town in and his bed, chair, boots, hat and cane. Later, Jesse and I drove through Seaside Park to see the statue of PT Barnum.

On April 18th, Sharon and I enjoyed a walk on the boardwalk at Silver Sands State Park in Milford, CT

On April 16, Sharon and I drove through Milford CT to see the extent of the flooding from the Nor'easter. There wasn't as much as I expected. Some flooding around Gulf Beach area (with one stranded motorist who tried to drive through) and some more flooding around the duck pond in the center of town.

Today, 4/14/07, Sharon and I took Jesse to Fort Griswald in Groton, Ct--the site where Benedict Arnold and British soldiers came ashore and killed the soldiers stationed in the fort in 1781 (they also burned 150 buildings in New London). We also drove past both casinos (Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun) and through both the Pequot and Mohegan Reservations. We stopped at a Native American burial ground and at Yantic Falls--the site where one group of warriors was chased off the cliff to their deaths by another tribe.