Picking up from where I left off, our next big adventure was our trip to New York. A fleeting 24 hour trip, but an exciting one nonetheless. We caught the bus on the Tuesday evening and at 9pm we saw the flashing lights ahead and before we knew it we were at Penn Station, New York City. Our first holiday together... if you can call it that! We'd arrived so late that after having some food we slowly wound our way up Amsterdam Avenue (via Times Square) to our hostel where we crashed early for the night in preparation for the next day's super-sight-seeing-tourist-extravaganza.
So we rose up the next morning to the sound of sirens whizzing past and people screaming up and down the streets and, having spent less than 10 hours in our hostel, we checked out. We mastered the subway - which makes London tubes look like a haven in comparison - and made our way down to the site of the World Trade Centre, via a Dunkin Donuts for breakfast of course - might as well make the most of being in America! The Ground Zero area is still very much a building site which we noticed as soon as we came within a few blocks of it because the area is thick with dust, and sadly you can't really see the memorial garden from the outside which is a shame. You have to book in advance in order to go in which we didn't to because apparently it's booked up for the next year or so, so maybe next time!
Sadly the previous glorious weather we had enjoyed, no longer decided to grace us and so we wandered around a grey, drizzly New York with hoods up and umbrellas seeing some of the not quite so touristy sites. We'd both done New York before and seen the Statue of Liberty etc and so where did we go instead... why 66 Perry Street of course...
Recognise it? It is of course the steps from Carrie's house in Sex and the City!!!! I was star struck, I have to admit, despite the fierce 'No Trespassing' signs and warnings.
With viewing spots to just sit and watch the traffic go by and then more landscaped areas where the original train lines have been incorporated into the foliage it really is an amazing place to visit and was definitely one of the highlights of the day!
The rest of the afternoon was spent wondering around seeing central park and looking for some food before our long bus journey home. We also managed to fit some shopping in, of course, and I managed to get some new snow boots in preparation for the coming winter. I'm actually so excited by my new purchase that I'm sort of looking forward to the snow just so that I have an excuse to wear them... but I'm pretty sure the novelty will wear off pretty fast!
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