Before I get started, I'd like to apologise for the MASS of photos below and the way the layout is.. I can't change that on this stupid phone.. and it's guna be a long post!
Yeah, so it was a 4/5 hour bus ride from Washington DC to New York City. Daniel slept pretty much the whole way but for me, as I can't sleep on buses... my head was just bobbing up and down the whole way. It felt like sleep deprivation. It was 6am as well..gross.
It was awesome as we came into New York. Sounds obvious but there were SO many buildings.. It was insanely insane!
We were then searching for our hotel.. We had to walk like 10ish blocks to get to time square.. We were still confused to where the hotel was.. Then we looked ahead a bit further down Broadway.. And it was literally ON time square. What the hell this is amazing.
After we had checked our back packs in (proper tourist I know ;)), we had a little walk around Time Square.. Took a few photos etc.. We then walked around the Rockefeller Centre (a commercial complex made up of 19 buildings built by a famous family.)
Next, we had a wander into St. Patricks cathedral.. Which had THE most amazing bright purple stained glass windows.
We then waited in the 'tkts' line, which is where you can get Broadway Theatre tickets that have not all completely sold.. So we waited for about an hour to eventually and very luckily get Mamma Mia tickets!
Then the best bit of the whole trip happened.. Basically, the family I am staying with have a friend who works on the masts and antennas at the top of the Empire State Building.. And it was a huge coincidence that he was in town the very day we got there.. So we got a VIP tour (completely free of charge) up to the 104th floor of the building. No queues. The floor we got to had no suicide fences, and the wall supporting us was just at my hip level. So you can probably imagine that my legs were literally quivering... It was really windy too, so it literally felt like you were going to be swept away by the wind and fall off. Bleh. Scary. But absolutely incredible. The views were insane. Words actually can't describe how amazing it was.
After that, we needed some fuel as that experience took every bit of energy we had! So we got some proper New York pizza. Like those big slices you know? YUM.
Mamma Mia time- crazily good. Literally was humming and smiling all the way through it like a right lunatic!
The next day, after a much needed amazing sleep in the comfiest bed in the world, we started off at a place called Jamba Juice for breakfast. brilliant- arrived at happy hour, so got a smoothie for a dollar baby.
Much to Daniel's disgust, he then got pooped on by a pigeon. I tried to persuade him that it means he will have a lucky day.. But he wasn't so sure. And my god did we have a lucky day...!
We turned up to Radio City Music Hall to organise a tour.. But as we were walking up to it there was a huge noisy crowd in the street.. So we went over and joined in to see what the fuss was all about.. And we finally found out that the world famous Rockettes were in town and performed right in front of us! What the hell! We then went on the tour.. And the very second we got into a room of the tour, Buddy from Cake Boss (a programme I watch religiously) came out with a massive cake for the alumni of the Rockettes. Crazy.
Lunch- typical American diner.
Next, we went to FAO Schwartz.. Quite a big toy store, which featured in the movie 'Big' (Tom Hanks). Got to even have a little play on the big piano, which was also featured in the film. After buying some sweets, we were off to our next stop.. The Financial District. We took the subway down town and had a walk around the massive buildings, wall street and the charging bull statue. We then went to Ground Zero where the 9/11 memorial was currently being built. We got a tour around it, and it's phenomenal. There are two huge water fountains located in the footprints of where the twin towers were. Really amazing. The new world trade centre is also being built.. And they're aiming to get the 1st tower to be Americas tallest building. There is a photo of the construction plan below.. It looks like its going to be beautiful.
Next, we walked to the Brooklyn bridge.. Whaaaat a trek! I was so so tired by this point.. I was WAY behind Daniel. The bridge is huge.
Had a visit to Chinatown and Little Italy next. Chinatown is freaky as. It just seems really scary and dirty.. Had some really weird looks there as well.. So I insisted we ate dinner in Little Italy.. Which was a lot cleaner and friendlier! Was really beautiful as well. After a huge bowl of pasta, we took a yellow cab back to the hotel to have a long sleep.
On our last day we had to rush around a bit. We wanted to try and do as much as possible before our bus pick up at 5pm. So firstly, had our morning Jamba Juice (again on happy hour!) and then walked to Macy's, the worlds largest department store. It was massively under construction.. But we had a gander on All 10ish floors regardless. I couldn't really even buy anything because there was just too much! Just managed to get some make up on the way out. We then walked to Grand Central Station.. And literally stopped there for about a minute to take a photo of the beautiful ceiling.
Took the subway up to Central Park- literally cant believe how big it is... Then to get to the MET (metropolitan museum of art) where I had a look around at all the incredible paintings (saw Van Gogh's, Monets, Pollocks, O'Keefes)- I love art galleries. Poor Daniel. By this point, we were ravenous. It was about 3 o'clock and we'd only drank some liquidised fruit! So after taking a cab back to Time Square.. It was time.. For a New York bagel. Yum.
Stopped off at M & M world... Bought a HECK load of peanut M&Ms.. Then a trek to the bus stop.
Incredible.
A really fast paced blog post.. But there was too much to say and my thumbs are cramping.
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