New York Day 3 Part II

On our third morning in NYC we walked up to Central Park and then over a block or two to the Manhattan Temple.

I was walking without looking up and SM finally stopped walking and told me to look up.  Yep, we had made it to the temple.  It was surrounded by tall buildings and looked very similar to the other buildings in the area except that it had Angel Moroni on the very top.

This symbol was in the cement on the sidewalk in front of the temple.

The writing says that this is the Manhattan New York Temple.  The lady at the desk was very kind and let us use the bathroom on the third floor.  This is the floor that church is held and when the elevator doors open I felt like I was in a chapel, like the many chapels I've attended.

Then we walked over to Central Park.  One of the first things I saw was this man, standing on a giant stone, practicing his fly fishing casting method.  He stopped few minutes later since the rain started to pick up.  But I do think it was a good idea on his part to practice casting his fishing rod in the park.

Just a couple photos of us in the park.

Have I mentioned how large Central Park is...it's huge!!  And very beautiful.

The castle...or Belvedere Tower.

The above plaque says:  " Belvedere Tower, Erected in 1869 as a lookout.  It now houses the New York Meteorological Observatory which was founded in 1868 by Dr. Daniel Draper who was its director until his retirement in 1912.  At which time the observatory came under the direction of the United States Weather Bureau."

On one of the paths in the park.

Here is the view of the castle from the path.

SM looking at a statue of a leader of Lithuania in the 1300's.  Little did that guy know he'd be remembered in a park of a country that hadn't even been "discovered"  by Christopher Columbus.

Alice in Wonderland

A statue of Hans Christian Andersen building after 9/11 as a memorial to all the children who died or had a parent die on that day.

SM wanted to go on a carousel ride but it was closed.

The park had very large rocks all over.  I could see how it might be difficult to build on the Island of Manhattan if all the ground was like this.  But maybe that is why the park was never built into?  Probably not!  I think SM told me that someone donated/gifted the land but made it so that no one built on the land.