Baba Gump

Pink and white blossom, daffodils blue sky and sky scrapers, these are what you see in Central Park. Oh and people. Lots of people. Especially on a day like this. it feels like being on a film set, and in fact while we were there someone was filming something for some film or TV programme. You kind of expect to see famous people just strolling around, or roller skating. The ice rink is still there. So is the zoo, which we visited only for a coffee. Well, it's only got one animal in it. It's a dog. Yes. It's a Shitsu.

Me and lizzie and Emily and Lucas had had lunch at Baba Gump on Time Square. We had a window seat so were overlooking the bright and busy pavement and high rises. Interestingly I don't think there was a clock to be seem anywhere.
Baba Gump, I now know, is the business Forrest Gump took over from his friend Baba after he was killed in the Vietnam war. It is a sea food restaurant, although you can get pretty much anything. Anything with fries. I had a steamed seafood platter. It was like Moules Mariniere but with lobster legs, and all sorts of shell fish, in a creamy garlic sauce. Emily had a load of prawns in batter and Lizzie had similar stuff. Lucas just posed in the window with Time Square as a back drop. Great photo opportunity, and chance to charm the middle age women.
So was the trip on the train trip back as he got passed from woman to woman, gurgling and giggling away. Even the stern face Manhattan Businessmen were able to raise a smile from their New York Times.
If only they knew of his middle-of-the-night antics, when smiling and gurgling is definitely NOT welcome. Wait 'till he starts crawling.
I just have to say again how great Grand Central Station is. It is just amazing, busy, clean and somehow romantic. You can imagine the hundreds and millions of people who have hurried through it's halls and passages doing mundane things like getting home. Some on secret assignations, and some on deadly espionage. I love it.