Diwali & Times Square, NYC

Long day today – was at Times Square from morning until night. The lady of the house and her group were performing at the heart of times square, NYC at an early celebration of Diwali – the Indian festival of light (Diwali is actually in October this year)

While we were right in front for the morning session and appeared on TV multiple times, evening was very busy and crowded, and Lego was a block and a half away…

Diwali At Times Square (http://diwalitimessquare.com/)

Filming in downtown Atlanta

Spotted some filming going on downtown Atlanta, and caught them during between takes, with everyone frozen in place. I was most impressed by the dog standing still too!

Not sure what movie but the notice said Mesquite Productions. The over-helpful downtown ATL ambassador said she wouldn’t do what I was doing (having Lego in the shot). But then again, I’m not doing what’s she doing either…

Walk for art

After seeing a notice about the walk between terminals at ATL being just 5 minutes, I walked for the first time instead of taking the train. Discovered art and art installations along the way…

Lego takes time to stand and stare…

Local 9/11 memorial

Wasn’t here yesterday to visit the township memorial, but spent a moment of silence at the memorial by the lake today.

That’s a piece of steel from the WTC at the memorial remembering victims from our township…

No rooms in the inn

The team was up until midnight preparing for a presentation today. As a result, when I went to check into the Hampton Inn confident in my “guaranteed for late arrival” room, I was told that they were oversold and they had no rooms left…

The front desk person was very apologetic (she had just started her shift and this was dumped on her), and tried calling all the hotels around for availability, but kept getting the “sold out” message from them (some steelers game and some star and stripe stuff). She finally found a room in an unheard of hotel miles away and send me there… at 2 am! And wake up was at 5 am to get ready for the meeting…

Lego struggles to figure out this “dial-in” stuff (little did he notice the “wireless internet” ad behind him 🙂