Well, Mia and I arrived in NY last night and checked into out hotel.. (Its in a great spot just a short walk from Central Park, Time square etc right in the heart of Manhatten) we had a few Dramas with Hotwire which is the company I usually use to book my hotels.. like they decided they were not sure if my credit card was actually mine.. and so canceled my Reservations and refunded the money to my account.. it did mean we didn’t have a place to stay! the hotel offered me a good rate on another room (still more than i was going to pay through hotwire but almost affordable) and so we were finally able to dump our bags and go and explore time square at night 🙂
This morning after a much needed sleep in we went for a walk through Central park and up to the Natural History Museum.. its much just like any other NH Museum but bigger.. much bigger! it took Hours to skim through the many dioramas and displays.. saw some cool animals tho, all dead most killed just so we could look at them in a museum, such was the way back then, poor little guys!
After the Building of death we jumped on the Subway… well I jumped on the subway, Mia was a few steps behind and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t stop the door from closing locking her out of the train and me in it…. all I can say is we met up at the next station .. and had a good laugh. we headed down to hearald square and the Empire state building… we forked out the $16 each to go up to the observation deck and spent a while up the top taking far too many photos and freezing out butts off… still well worth the effort. afterwards we had a bit of a break by walking through Macys (the largest store in the world!!) when we finally emerged it was Dark out, we walked across to 5th Ave and in the direction of Saint Pats and the Chrysler building, once again taking heaps of photos.. (god bless digital cameras)
on our way home we stopped in at a great pizza place for.. well… pizza… (yes eating very healthy over here) only one more day in NY to go then its off the Canada!! might try to get down to the Statue of Liberty tomorrow and check out china town if we have time.
Thats all for now, check out the photos from today if you want 🙂