From the Stickley Museum we went to Mt. Tabor another 19th century Methodist camp site that contains a lovely tabenacle set in a beautiful town square surrounded by concentric rings of Victorian homes.  This community is look back into the influence that religion played in the lives of individuals and families in the later 19th century. ( http://www.mounttabornj.org/  ).

Sometimes I look at what I've written about my acitivities of a particular day, and I think, "I felt that I did more than that".  I forget how long it can take to get around the city, even with its extensive public transportation system. Thursday night was a case in point.  My train from New Jersey was late coming into Penn Station.  That meant that instead of of getting in at 9:40, I got in at 10:00.  I walked to the E  train in the subway only to find that for this week, there were no E trains running from that station AFTER 10 p.m.  That meant that rather than one easy subway ride to a stop just blocks from my apartment, I had to: 1.  Take an A train downtown to 14th St, 2.  Transfer to an L train and go to Union Square, 3.  Transfer to a uptown 6 train.  4. At 42 street, 1 stop from where I would normally get off, I had to get off the 6 because it would begin running as an express and not stop 51st St ( my stop). 5. Wait for a local 6 train which would stop.  So, a 15-20 minute trip turned to 75 minutes, and there's not a thing you can do about it.

Feeling energetic and a sense of uncompleted tasks on my trip, I dashed uptown to the Metropolitan Museum to do some shopping.  I was very pleased with my purchases.  ( http://store.metmuseum.org/ ).   After that, onto a city bus for the ride down 5th Avenue to St. Thomas Church for a quiet time of prayer in their Evensong service.