Begin in Brooklyn
One of the challenges of traveling with a group of people is that everyone doesn't always want to do the same things. I really lucked out having Christina as my roommate as we were both early risers, had similar priorities in what we wanted to do and neither of us cared to shop. We found it was easy to compromise when our interests differed. My desire to walk the Brooklyn Bridge one morning dovetailed nicely with her desire to visit The Little Church Around the Corner , where her great grandparents were married in the early 1900's, and that's what we did Thursday morning. We took the subway from a stop near our hotel to High Street. Like Kelowna it seems NYC has two seasons....winter and construction. I'm not sure where this tradition started but I first heard about it after we'd missed the oportunity to put a love lock on the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris. Apparently you and your sweetheart write your names on a padlock and affix ...