Visiting My Cousin Cary

This morning we moved out of the B&B and trekked a couple of blocks to Jason's apartment where we will stay for the rest of our visit to New York. The hardest part was carrying our luggage up four flights of stairs. After we got settled we spent a bit of time just relaxing and I did some comments on Blip.

Then we walked back down Park Place to Flatbush Avenue to catch the B subway to Manhattan. We got off at the Museum of Natural History stop and walked through Roosevelt Park towards 78th Street where Cary lives. We had to pass by the Nobel Obelisk honoring all of the American Nobel Prize winners. On the side that faces Columbus Street are two very personal names. My father, Edwin McMillan, who won the chemistry prize in 1951 for discovering Neptunium and co discovering Plutonium and the 1939 physics prize won by my uncle Ernest Lawrence. We happened to be in New York visiting Cary eight years ago when they unveiled the obelisk. We were able to attend the ceremony. We had no idea that it was even happening but were delighted to be there.

After that we waked along Columbus and to Cary's brownstone. We spent a wonderful afternoon and evening with Cary and her fiancee Mark. We talked, laughed, ate a delicious Indian dinner and generally had a great time together. We also spent quite a bit of time going through old family photos.

Again I couldn't fit all the day into one photo so I've made another montage. The top two photos are of Park Place where Jason's apartment is. The middle one is Mark, Arvin and Cary taken from the stairway of her building shown in the bottom right photo. The bottom left photo is an old family photo. Left to right are my brother Dave, me, Cary's brother John, Cary and my brother Steve. It was taken over fifty five years ago at our grandparents' house in Pasadena, CA.