We have just had the most awesome day in NYC; after the expanse of the Albertan Prairie, civilisation has really had such an effect on us... there are strangers and cars everywhere!!! (We are far more used to tumble weed than yellow cabs)! And ... after waiting until 10.30am for our kids to get up, we have managed to see most of what this truly amazing city has to offer!
We started off with a Water Taxi around New York harbour, which included the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, Pier 17 et al... a really fantastic trip in every sense of the word, made even better by working out how to bypass the crazy queues down at Battery Park. As an added bonus the trip was proceeded by a completely awesome display by a group of 4 street performers on the finer arts of break-dancing and acrobatics...Leigh's one-armed press-ups came in a very distant and sad 2nd place!!
From there we decided to head to the Empire State Building...obviously we had to get a hotdog from a NYC street vendor en route ... and of course Charlie wanted a hotdog without a sausage! Ben fulfilled his aspirations of hailing a New York Cab and we had an amazing taxi ride through NY where along route we saw, amongst many other things; urban basketball courts, cool looking Italian restaurants, Irish bars and many other entertainment centres. Leigh & I would have husselled in on one of the games if we had the time!
The Empire State Building was magnificent, after which we hailed another taxi, even Charlie and Olivia were quite the experts by now, and made our way to Times Square. Again, a completely amazing NY experience and again loads of friendly people (is it just an English voice thing??) and we picked up a tour bus back to the hotel through Greenwich Village, Soho (disappointingly for Leigh not like London!) and Wall Street (surprisingly tiny!).
After short walk down the Hudson River and an obligatory play park later we we back in the Embassy Suites...and joined the rest of the hotel in the Manager's Happy Hour of drinks, nachos and popcorn...huge fun for all the family! More from Central Park tomorrow...
4 comments:
My Pidge, the description of your time in New York is poetic and the family photograph simply divine. If I may a minor observation. Somewhat of a school girl error in your headline committing to a 2nd episode this evening; no wine till you have delivered (as we say on Fleet Street)! Also a caption detailing which of the many famous New York Skyline buildings is in the background of the family photo would be helpful. Keep up the world class journalism!
Awesome Pictures! Fantastic place to be!
Part two of the Pics pls!!
i thought a promise was a promise ... where's Part 2
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