Emily and I arrived in New York City on the Friday afternoon and had a lazy evening with a film and some pretzels. I also savoured the opportunity to have some home cooked food! It was cooked by yours truly so it was nothing too special but given a choice between some roasted veggies and pesto pasta and the mush they serve here at Uconn, it was a treat! On Saturday we slept in. What?! We're on holiday! It was so nice having a comfy apartment to stay in over the weekend, we could wake up and make a cup of tea as we both checked the news and our latest blog stats and then plan the day ahead in our pjs! So to Ginny and Alan who kindly let us stay in their apartment over the weekend, thank you very, very much!We then hopped on the number 5 bus so that we could see the city and headed to 55 w55th street (don't I sound like such a New Yorker!) where we rented some bikes. Yes you did read that correctly; Molly Fletcher went on a bike! And I cycled the entire 12km around Central Park and explored the different footpaths, and clambered over the rocks and saw the various sights.. It was absolutely amazing and something I highly recommend if you ever get the chance! I had only ever been to the South East corner of Central Park and so it was a great way to see it in its entirety. It's HUGE! Although I have to admit it was highly depressing when whilst struggling to make it up some of the super steep hills I was overtaken by various joggers some even pushing stollers! Their children would of course be sitting in the front playing with an ipad; 21st century kids!
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| Emily and Me on our way to the top of Belvedere Castle, Central Park. |
We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the city and marvelling at the various Christmas decorations which will be lit this coming weekend. Some shops already had their gaudy displays up for the public and were truly blinding! We strolled around the New York Public Library which is absolutely amazing. However it's possibly THE most intimidating building I've ever been to, I have no idea how people could work in there!
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| Outside the New York Public Library |
Again Saturday evening saw us curled up in bed at 9pm with a cup of tea and a film - what a crazy student life I'm living! The busy day cycling took it out of us! On the Sunday morning we had intended on getting up early but, typically, my phone ran out of battery in the middle of the night and so my alarm didn't go off. Great. But these things happen... and we did get an extra hour in bed so I was definitely not complaining! Our initial plan had been to go ice skating in Central Park but we realised that this probably wasn't the best idea. We are both very 'special', to say the least, and 'special' combined with slippery ice and relatively sharp ice skating boots is probably not the best combination. So we avoided any potential run ins with our insurance companies and settled with the safe option: The Bronx Zoo. It was brilliant. Totally worth the 45 min or so subway ride there. It's absolutely massive and because we went on a Sunday the park was almost empty. There were Lions and Tigers and Bears (oh my) and the little girl in me came out as I sat for hours watching the gorilla, who was sat right next to the glass, and followed the tiger as it strolled along the edge of its cage. I of course cracked numerous awful "bear with me" jokes when we passed the bear enclosure and "deer oh deer" comments as we passed the gazelles. Geez I crack myself up.
See what I mean about an action packed weekend?! I feel that you will all probably want to be getting back to your own lives now and will now be thoroughly jealous and annoyed at the amazing weekend that I have so far described! So I will give you a breather to calm down because my weekend away only gets better. But I will save that instalment until tomorrow....
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