We arrived very tired on Saturday night with mountains of bags. Got a truck to our apartment and made our way upstairs to our 47th floor apartment. Wow. The views are amazing. Five days on and it still feels like a dream. We can see the Hudson river to the west, Manhattan Bridge crossing the East river to the east (no kidding) and Mrs. Liberty in the bay to the south. It is truely beautiful. Just south of us is the beautiful 1913 Woolworth Building, which was the tallest building in the world for it's first 17 years.
We had US Open final tickets for Sunday, but due to rain this was moved to Monday. Instead there was a harbour festival and we watched power boats racing on the Hudson from our window, with Helicopters chasing them, filming from only metres above the water. We then went down to the river and walked down to Battery park, where there was a concert for kids and some street food. The weather was baking and there were lots of boats sailing on the water - tall ships, yachts, naval ships, and speed boats. On the way back we stopped off at a great playground and Sam had fun.
On Monday I started my new job and Paul kindly came round to babysit at short notice so Lyn could go to the tennis and watch the Williams sisters thrash the pants off two other women in the doubles final. Serena was fired up after being disqualified from the singles, and they were a duo of power and elegance in pink, on a half empty Arthur Ashe court. The men's final started at 4pm and by then the 25,000 seats were almost full, except mine as I was at work. I got there half way through the second set, with Federer a set and a break up. At this point it looked like it would be a quick final. Del Potro broke back and then won the set on a tie break. Then Lyn had to leave as Paul had a gig to compere. I stayed to the end as Del Potro won his first slam in five sets. Quite a game, and an upset.
Anyway, probably bored you by now (he says, kidding himself that somebody may read this far down), so gonna go to bed. The idea is to blog a bit so people can see what we're up to, as with work and the boys taking up a lot of time we won't be able to email you all as much as we'd like to. We'll both do a bit, here and there, and we'll also try to post some photos up on our flickr site. Hope you are all well, and that we see as many of you out here as can make it.
Lots of love from us all.
Tom
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