One of the great things about having a friend come to visit (other than obviously seeing them), is having an excuse to do a little bit of an exploration. When one of my friends came home from Hong Kong and wanted to get together for lunch, the girls and I headed off to Downtown and had a bit of an adventure enroute.
Our first stop was the FlatIron Building which they obviously thought was cool. Elspeth thought it was funny that the people had to use the stairs on the outside of their building until I told her that they were special stairs that were used if there was a fire and the rest of the time they went upstairs inside.
As we walked along further we passed a cement truck. Now that by itself is not remarkable. What made it entertaining was that it was actually pouring cement and the workers were then smoothing the cement. I think that we stood there for a good ten minutes observing the process.
Eventually it was time to move on to our next stop, a small Inuit Art Gallery. It only took about 20 minutes to see everything but the craftsmanship was wonderful. I always marvel at what beauty can be created from stone and bone. All in all, between lunch with friends and our various stops, it was an enjoyable afternoon.
