Oh, I Think So

I needed a vacation, I'd been saving for a vacation, I wanted to take a trip and go somewhere.  I wanted to go to Europe but everywhere I wanted to go was either a great airfare and expensive hotels or else cheap hotels and costly airfare or a flight would have been at 6 a.m. or I just didn't want to go there.  What to do?  Where to go? After thinking and pondering, I finally found a hotel at a good price in a city I wanted to visit.  I stayed at a hotel in Brooklyn and I visited New York City.  It was excellent, y'all. New York really is the greatest city in the world, a nonstop rush of people and things and scents and sights and sensations and feelings and tastes.  It is a crush of humanity and it is in your face.  I mean this:  In.  Your.  Face.  That's just what I like in a vacation -- something that is not like where I am. One day I went to not one, not two, but three major art museums.  I started out wi...

I was out in the burbs today and came across these geese and their offspring.  They looked like a happy modern family and I wish you and your modern family a very happy Mothers Day. A happy family going somewhere to do something, May 11, 2014 Oh I Think So is taking a break!  We are having two entire weeks off and are spending five days and four nights in one of the five boroughs of New York City.  We are hoping to see a show or two, eat a couple of nice meals, buy a new pair of tap shoes, and answer this riddle:  Who is buried in Grant's Tomb? We will miss you and sincerely hope that you miss us and come back on May 25 to see what is what.

It was a Saturday, the sun wouldn't be shining again for six days, but doesn't it look like a most pleasant day?   Close up on Flamingo, Federal Plaza, Chicago, on Saturday, April 26, 2014.