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DAY 13
After a very very long 12 hour bus ride i eventually arrived in new york. another girl from the bus was wondering aimlessly around the new york station as well so i asked her if she was looking for the taxis and we ended up sharing a taxi to the hostel which was cool. i thot jen would arrive about and hour after me but nope 3 hours later she runs up to me while i'm online and gives me a big hug. took us a while to get over our excitment once we did we unpacked our stuff and headed out into the city, first stop times square! i knew it was big but didnt realsie just how huge and lit up it was! theres people everywhere and u can just smell food at every turn! we wandered around a while just taking it all in and doing a bit of souvenier buying then we went to plant hollywood for dinner which was yummy. after walking around some more we decided to start using our sightseeing tickets we'd brought and we did the night time new york tour. it was so pretty! everything was lit up and flashing it was a pretty amazing sight. we got taken pretty much everywhere. once we got to brooklyn we stopped off just after the manhatten bridge and got the best view of the manhatten skyline it was unreal. we got ourselves some hot choc to warm ourselves up. sitting on top of a double decker bus at night time was maybe not the best idea it was freezing! once that finished we realised we'd both been up for about 36hours so it was time to hit the sack!
DAY 14
we had a bit of a lie in 2day and headed out about 11ish.our plan was to do the downtown tour in the morning then maybe the uptown tour at night. nope didnt happen. first stop was the box office for phantom of the opera. with our sightseeing passes we got a discount coupon for the show so figured we might as well use it...best idea ever! we got seats for only 70 bucks! afer we did some shopping in this cute broadway store opposite the theatre. we fiugured it was prob time to actually do some sight seeing now so we went on the downtour, first stop was macys! think we got lost in there for a bit too long lol then when we got back on the bus we saw all these cool shops so got off again and shopped some more! by the time we'd done that we realised we were running out of time to get back to the hostel, change beautify ourselves and get dinner b4 the show so we hopped back on the bus. it took forever!!! so we hopped off again and hunted for the subway but cldnt find a stop that connected to anywhere near our hostel so we hailed a cab. u wld think flagging down a taxi in new york city would be easy...wrong! we got told it was shift change so they wldnt take us. eventually we got one agian big mistake. it was rush hour!! it took us double the time to get back and cost us double the price wasnt happy! we literally had bout 10mins to freshen up and get back out. ouor nice dinner we were planning turned into a subway around the corner from the theatre! we were way to hyper though to care. when we got in the theatre and got seated we realised just how good our seats were. orchester centre seats just far enough back and i had an aisle it was pure luck!! the show itself in 2 words BLOODY BRILLIANT (sorry for the language mum). i cldnt get over how amazing the cast were and the set was just unreal! best show i've ever seen. i wanna see it on the westend now to compare! to stopped off ini mcds on the way back to get a coffee and come down from our high. we got to bed about 1 with the idea of getting up early to do some more sight seeing the next day.
DAY 15
the plan to get up early didnt work. mainly cause of me lol. i was shattered. after having a good breakie across the street from the hostel we took the subway down to south ferry to go on the statue of liberty island boat tour. as soon as we got off the subway we got bombarded by this guy trying to get us to go to some fashionshow with him when we got back to dc and to go out partying with him, he was suppsed to be promoting helicopter tours around the statue of liberty!! he had a thing for jen kept patting her head like a dog then he kept on telling me to stop looking at him weirdly. he obviously clndt make out my expression of impatinence and annoyance. he wldnt shut up and then he sent us in the wrong direction to catch the ferry. on our way to get the tickets we ran into another guy who had some sob story about helping inner city kids stay off the streets and wld we buy these candy sticks for 7 bucks. i said no straight away i dont trust ppl like that jen on the other hand bought them and i still dont think shes eaten them!
the ferry ride was pretty cool. we got airport security typed seached b4 we got on though. dont know wot they thot someone wld do it was a bit OTT if u ask me. our tickets didnt include getting off on the island so we just sailed round it and got off at ellise island were all the immigrants had to pass through all those yrs ago it was kinda interesting. when i went in the toilets there i somehow dont ask me how smashed my lip on a metal coat hanger sticking out and cut it open. its ok now lol just me being clutzy!after we're wandered round the island we got back on the ferry after sitting waiting for it to leave for about 15mins we hear over th intercom that its about to depart for new jersey and if ur heading to NY ur on the wrong ferry. well guess who wasnt headinng for new jersey that wld be us!! we ran of the boat and caught the proper one just in time... ablonde moment as dad wld say!
we got back on the subway after that and headed to the rockerfellar centre where we got an elevator right to the top. it was the perfect time of day to do it the sun was setting which was stunning and after we'd popped in the gift shop and come out again it was dark and the view was amazing!! it was freezing butu well worth it! we went for dinner at bubba gump which was yummy i had the best fish and chips ever, yup even better than anstruthers i'm afraid! we did a bit of shopping then headed back to the hostel. so right now i'm sitting online waiting for my laundry to finish. we're catching a bus at 03:45 to head to DC for the day so having a snooze b4 we have to go hail a cab and catch the bus!
ps: my camera is still not getting picked up by thesee computers. maybe i'll have better luck in boston!
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