Manhattan Day 2

We got out this morning and stopped at a deli for a bite. On our way to the subway a film crew raced through the streets filming 2 people on a motorcycle. Couldn't tell who they were or what film. Then sirens started going off all over the city from every direction. We didn't think anything of it but it'll play into my post later. We took the subway uptown to north Central Park. We then spent the morning walking down through the park criss-crossing from West Park to 5th Avenue.
When we got mid way down the park we ran into a film crew. As we got closer the scene looked like something from a Bollywood film. Brides and Grooms dancing along with a mariachi band and a steel drum band and some goofy characters dancing behind. I was amazed at how close they let us got and we actually stood right behind the monitors that were used for playback of the scenes. I noted a crowd of girls and where they kept pointing their cameras trying to figure out if there was anyone of worth in the scene. Sure enough when they yelled cut the main actors headed straight in our direction to the playback screens and it was Patrick Dempsey aka Dr. McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy which we watch on Sunday night's.

The film was "Enchanted" and is coming out next year and the scene was either from a music montage or an ending scene and pretty dorky but it was fun to stand and watch them shoot for awhile before breaking for lunch.


We got to the south end of the park and ran into the new Apple Manhattan store. Yeah for Nathan. It is a cool building that reminded us of the Louvre entrance in Paris but a cube instead of a pyramid.

You descend down a glass spiral staircase under the sidewalk into the store. Nathan immediately disappeared and where did I find him? GUILTY!

He goes straight for the laptops which of course are hooked up to the web so he could check his email.
Because of business he had to go back to the room and make some calls and emails so we split up and I headed up Park Avenue along Central Park. Nothing too interesting. Then I crossed over to Madison Avenue and kept heading north running into some posh stores. When my feet started to hurt I changed sides of the street and started walking downtown window shopping. I ran into all the engines with sirens from earlier in the morning. Police and FDNY everywhere. I easily walked around barricades and pushed through tv news reporters to get by as I just wanted to continue down the street but the strong smell of gas stopped me in my tracks. I covered my nose and peered down the street that was blocked off. Looked like a building had caught fire. Passerbys mumbled bomb, explosion and building blowing up. I thought nothing of it and kept moving down the street. Turns out it was actually on the news everywhere today. Weird.