First thing we wondered through Central Park for a bit before getting the subway to the financial district. We got off near to the World Trade Center site, but realised as soon as we got off the train that it wasn’t going to be easy to get out of the station, let alone to the site! The area was swamped with Yankee fans as they were having their celebratory parade along Broadway! We struggled to get away from all the crowds as they were everywhere!! We have sinc...

Fireworks night..but none here.. humf!  We had a late night last night watching the Yankees winning the world series, which resulted in a late morning! Oops! We doubled up on layers as it was a tad nippy yesterday! We wondered through central park again, but on the east side this time. We passed one of the Ice Rinks..and are considering going tomorrow evening! The park is so huge, with lots of different things..even the zoo (from Madagascar!)!! We had a mooc...

We met our room mates last night, they are staying one night short of us, so it’s a good job we like them! They are 2 older guys from Columbia..who have just finished Uni in Chicago! They are very amusing, and loved hearing about our plans and tried convincing us that we should go to Columbia..we think not!! We were up bright and early this am, and out early enough to still see the clear blue skies! It was nippy, but refreshing! We walked through Central Park,...

We got up bright and early, had hot showers, and caught the bus to New York!! The journey was about 4 ½ hours, was very bumpy and we slept most of it! We can add a few more states to our list now, including Maryland, and we went over a humungous bridge! We arrived in New York at about 2pm and were conveniently dropped just by Penn Station, where we happened to know that a Tim Hortons was (remember how we fell in love with Tim’s in Canada?!)! We made our way t...

Not a great start to the morning, cold showers and our milk had been drunk..hmm! Anyway, we headed to downtown to explore. We're quite close to everything, we didn't realize yesterday!!Our first stop was the Old Post Office tower which had many of the original features and you were able to go up to the top of the tower, just above the 111 year old clock. We were able to see about 10miles out, and quite well considering the cloudy day, but at least it wasn't raini...