Tuesday, September 05, 2006


Sunday, 3rd September, 2006

Our cases packed and stowed in the left luggage room, we once again enjoyed omelets and hash browns at 'Andrews'. It's a bright sunny day with blue skies, perfect for a view from the top of the Empire State Building. The views were astonishing, we took far too many pics, and we reminisced of experiences of other high places, the Eiffel Tower, Paris and the campanile at the Duomo in Florence, and rated this third!!!!!! But that said the views were spectacular. Before being whisked to the 86th floor for the observatory, we were given a simulated sky train ride over and around New York as though we were flying in a helicopter.

Back on ground level we caught the Big Taxi open-topped tour bus and relaxed in the sunshine as we were taken through the streets and avenues to soak up the Big Apple. The three hour tour took us around mid, uptown and downtown New York, and past many well known landmarks, including a stop to view: the Rockerfeller Center, Central Park, flat iron building, Carnegie Hall, Chrysler Building, Greenwich Village, Broadway, Little Italy, Times Square, Soho, Chinatown, Ground Zero, NY public libraries, the Statue of Liberty.......and more!!!!!! It seemed as if we were sighseeing up to the last minute. We were off the tourbus at 4.30 p.m. and on the 5.01p.m. New Jersey Transit from Penn Station to the airport, in that half-hour we even managed to squeeze in a supermarket trip to get some tea for Ben! So here we are in Gallaghers looking out over the airport waiting for our meal and our plane!!!

I'm at home now and typing up this diary, and drinking a cuppa! Our flight home was uneventful, after lots of security checks again, fingerprints and photos too! We arrived into Birmingham, at 8.30 a.m. local time and we were back home by 10.00 a.m. WOW!!!! What a trip!!! Fantastic!!!!! :-)))

2 Comments:

Blogger bluefluff said...

Love the photo! Did Ben enjoy his tea?

07 September, 2006 01:42  
Blogger Hazeofpink said...

Couldn't find any orange pekoe which is what he really wanted, so we got him Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime! Don't think he's tried it yet!

11 September, 2006 00:26  

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