I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated - God, I'm sophisticated. -- Daisy Buchanan
Yesterday, my ladies and I traveled out to Long Island's Manhasset Bay for the Great Gatsby Boat Tour. Our tour guide, Eleanor, was dressed in 1920's garb and struggled to stay in character as she read from her print out of the Fitzgerald wikipedia page.
She pointed out West Egg ("the new money") and East Egg ("the old money") and the various yacht clubs and mansions that had been there since the 20s. We had fun speculating which may have been the Gatsby house and which may have been the Buchanan house. Sadly, it was the middle of the day so there was no blinking green light for us to pine after.
We saw an enormous historic home under construction and according to Eleanor, the workers recently uncovered a speak easy in the basement. Do I have to wait until booze is illegal again to build a bar in basement? I sure hope not.
It was a beautiful day and I think I accidentally learned a few things!
3 comments:
One of my favorite books!
Even named my son Jordan.
I must visit New York again.
-ella
Beautiful ladies! Sounds like so much fun!
Ahhhhh..I love the Great Gatsby, I love that time period! You are so lucky! When Wes and I went to New England a few years ago we got to do the Cliff Walk and see all the mansions from the '20's and toured the mansion that was used for filming The Great Gatsby. Awesome. You are living my parallel life.
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