Up at a very sensible time and we headed downtown as we had booked a tour of Brooklyn Bridge and DUMBO. The Central Park Half Marathon was on so 7th Avenue was closed from Central Park to Downtown...and then there was a building fire on 7th Avenue near the end so needless to say, there was plenty of entertainment with breakfast!! We then waited for the tour outside of the Tweed Courthouse. There were some amazing old buildings down in that part of town but the to...

Woke up at 2:30am, feeling refreshed and ready to take on the world! But forced myself to take those extra few hours before facing the very, very cold city it turned out to be today...we even had snow falling for most of the day! First stop was the Gershwin Theatre and the Behind the Emerald Curtain tour. Learnt a bit we didn't know about how the show is put together and what people's roles actually are but the highlight was probably seeing a number of costumes a...

We left Dubai a bit late and the almost 14 hour flight felt like...well, a very, very long time! We arrived quite late into New York and because we were sat in row 84(!!), we were amongst the last off the plane and therefore the end of the visitor queue for immigration. It took about 25 minutes to get through the queue and then there was customs as well! We had indicated we had food, and the guy asked what we had...well, I felt I needed to declare the 3kg of choc...