m i n d i n g m y l a n g u a g e | day fourty-three

Emotion. Joy. A Spotted Pig. Bar top dancing. All in a day's work. Let me begin from the very start. With an emotional visit to Ground Zero and a guide given by two women who have had very personal losses during the September 11 attacks, we were moved to tears and it wasn't even lunch time. Then we moved onto a more momentous occasion when we went to visit the Statue of Liberty from a very distant Battery Park. We've had a fantastic run of weather in NYC until today, and yesterday was no exception. It led to dinner with friends at The Spotted Pig for amazing burgers before the real fun began. Hogs and Heifers is the original pub where they filmed Coyote Ugly, and the bar girls are truly nuts. They dance on the bar, drink all the shots that people buy for them and yell profanities through their mega-phone. They even got us up on the bar, oh my goodness, what an experience. Firstly, to a good old country song that escapes me, and secondly to "Shake Your Tail Feather", danced with all the enthusiasm of a Hollywood moment, pure crazy fun!
Today is met with a down pour of rain and disappearing mercury in the thermometer, but we'll be enjoying all the sights from the comfort of the Sex and The City tour bus so it doesn't matter. Reports to follow. Stay tuned.