It has been a fairly long day, but a fairly good one. Bart and I decided to do some exploring and road the subway for many hours today. We rode from Coney Island in Brooklyn all the way to Manhattan. We had some lunch and then Bart toured the United Nations building while I sat in the lobby. Once again I am feeling too tired to dedtail it all, but it was a good day. I don't know how people live here though as it is so exhausting. I suppose if we lived here it might not feel so tiring but just the large number of people, all the walking and climbing of stairs to take the subway, and being surrounded by so much noise drains me completely. Much easier to be surrounded by 10 children.
We got back to the house and had to leave less than an hour later to go to our speaking engagement. Talk about pathetic -- here we are in New York and because of parking and time constraints we ended up eating at McDonalds. Very disappointing. However, the next 2 nights will be much better as we have plans with others that involve much finer dining establishments.
The group tonight was small, but the interractions and conversation was good. Always makes us feel better to share our story -- it's empowering. We know we are far from perfect, but we remain committed to our children and that seems to be what they need. We always return vowing to do it better as well.
Tomorrow I will attempt to blog some pictures of where we were today and the You Gotta Believe offices we've visited. We have responsibilities from 1 p.m. until about 10 p.m. tomorrow.
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