Day 2 – 24/6/14

Best night’s sleep- woke up very refreshed and to the sounds and sirens of NY.  Decided today, because it was another beautiful day to do Statue of Liberty.

Got down to Battery Park by the E train from the Port Authority transit area.  Straight out to where all the work at trade centre is.  Wondered down to Battery Park, got out tickets, lined up, security checks and headed over to Statue of Liberty – she is one grand lady and the story behind her and her maker and the reason was really interesting.  Then over to Ellis Island – hmmm not so interesting even though the history behind it is.  More lining up (seems all we do atm) and back to NYC.  

 

Had a very late lunch (again only eating half of what I ordered) and went to 911 memorial museum.  The waterfalls commemorating the North and South towers were simply stunning – and so perfect!  As is the Freedom tower and then we went downstairs – wow, so sad and haunting and beautiful.  So many lost lives – I honestly shed a few tears L

Didn’t expect to be out so late and do so much walking so back to apartment for a brief rest before heading to Met Stadium to watch the first of 7 games whilst away.  Had a brief respite at home and off we went again – this time to 42^nd and 7^th to catch the 7 train out to Queens and to watch the Mets take on the A’s.  Citi Field is a beautiful stadium and has lots of stairs. 

 

I don’t think we walked as far today (?) but we certainly made up for it with stair – stairs, stairs everywhere!  Had fantastic seats on left field line – front row.  Also had access to 2 clubs if we so chose- how very posh of us lol!  Great game – Mets won easily and back to Manhattan.  Spent some time in Times Square where Sheri promptly went jeans shopping at 10.40pm and then shopping at Disney for Lekhyia.  Unfortunately all Frozen gear sold out.  Straggled back to apartment around midnight and crashed!!

Tomorrow I pick up some pre-ordered stuff and then time for hair cut and facial.  Probably a quieter day??

Day 3 – 25/6/14

Deep deep sleep and woke to a foggy overcast day.  Tried to rise and my legs screamed at me in protest – OMG that’s a good thing though, right?!

Slowly managed making myself respectable and we headed out around 10am back to 5^th Avenue for me to pick up my camera and headphones and for Sheri to visit NBA store.  Interestingly when I got to Best buys my order had been cancelled because of suspected fraud!  WTF?  Because I used an Australian credit card but put NY address the cancelled it.  Lucky for me they had what I ordered in store and they gave me the prices that were the online special.  A cool little Samsung camera and some headphones.  Nice!!

Sher bought some NBA stuff and I bought another 2 handbags - haha from the same place as last time - they say they re $600-$700 handbags but I think they may only be a few hundred but I get them sooooo cheap - and they are excellent quality.  I have 2 from last trip to prove it! 







Then at Nike store she bought about a billion pairs of shoes, shorts, tops, you name it!  Then we had to rush and catch a yellow cab down to Asanda.  I am telling ya, I was not meant to go there.  Sher had her facial ok but me, well first they tried to reschedule haircut but I managed to keep that but my facial was cancelled.  Now I am just fighting the battle to get my money back from Groupon – fingers crossed.  Got some lashes down, very pretttyyyy, even if I do say so myself J
 

We then started walking to China town but ended up jumping on a 6 downtown train and had some China in a very non flash store but a busy one with heaps of Chinese eating there – always a good sign!  Grabbed some chicken rice and couldn’t eat it all – probably something to do with the fact that we only had lunch 2 hours earlier – a very yummy chicken sushi wrap from Dean and Deluca.

 

Saw some puppies today and gave them a pat - missing my babies, and Pete I suppose :)

Still a bit of walking today but we are having a night in – got back to unit around 6.30pm and are going to put some baseball on TV and rest our very weary feet.