Meet Ben and Jerry

Oh dear - this journal is almost turning into a food (or should I say fattening-food) blog! But it just had to be done.

Mr A and I went to see the Rockefeller Centre and in the lower ground level of shops & walkways (the most fantastic art deco interiors and well worth several blips in their own right), we spotted a branch of Ben & Jerry's. Well, I'd never tried any of their ice cream before and I know people rave over it...so it just had to be done, didn't it? It would have been rude not to!

They were both chocolate somethings - slightly different flavours - but I cannot remember the details other than that they were waistband-bustingly-good.

Anyway, we both took another memory-card's worth of snaps from the "Top of the Rock" as they say, but I figure you can get bored with too many NY skylines - so I'm going with the tasty-looking shot instead!

On reviewing my snaps, I took one of the fountains outside Radio City, but I confess mine was nowhere near as good as the one published by Giacomo (see http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1810911), so I won't embarrass myself by showing my one! However, my shot and the one by Giacomo were taken just two days apart.

One thing that I did like at the Rockefeller Centre, was the granite engraving of John D Rockefeller Jnr's "I Believe" quote:

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character - not wealth or power or position - is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness, and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.