Wednesday 9 May 2007

Aint she pretty, whadda guy!!

Hey y'all, how y'all doing?? Well were having a great time as you would expect!!, thanks for all your posts, keep em coming.
So were three days into our long haul and we are getting into the swing of things with seemingly no hassle, I suppose a lot of that is to do with the fact that were in America!!, it does ease us in gently though.
On Sunday we leave NY and are getting the train up to Boston for a week or so, and then up to Cape Cod which is a popular holiday resort with the yanks. We have booked a hostel and only hope that its cleaner than this one.. I wont go into detail, just use your imagination.
On our 1st day we went into Central Park which is right on our doorstep and watched a Baseball team having a practice, it was great, Ive never took much interest in the game to be honest but I really enjoyed it. After that we staggered back to our digs and collapsed as we had been up since 5am and it was now about 2am the next morning. I'm still struggling a bit with the time difference but Matt seems to be ok. On Monday we walked down to Manhattan, it was great, taking in the whole NYC and the atmos etc, it is surreal walking down the street and just been a part of it (probably sounds strange to anybody that has never been) we then stumbled upon the most amazing deli bar, Olivia's, there is every kind of sandwich, salad, fruit, drink that you could wish for, if you went in every lunch time for a year you still wouldn't have got through the entire menu! After that we walked to Ground Zero, they are building a new sky scraper called The Freedom Tower, still in the very early stages though, we then went and sat by the Hudson River chilling out, it's great knowing that time is on your side and that you don't have to rush back home, back to work etc, it is such a good feeling knowing you can do what you want when you want if you want!
Yesterday we took the subway to Brooklyn Bridge, and walked back across it, the view is amazing, we managed to take lots of pics and when we get to Boston next week we will get some on the site. We also went back to Olivia's for our lunch and then went and sat with the locals in City Hall Park, which is right in front of the Woolworths Building (NY's first Sky Scraper) We went to the Metropolitan Art Museum in the afternoon which was ok if you like that kind of thing, we did manage to go up on the roof terrace though and get some amazing views over Central Park, we also got our 1st pic together!
Today we are going to walk to the Trump Tower, then to Grand Central Station to hopefully book our train tickets to Boston, this evening we are hoping to go up the Empire Building, we've both been up there during the day so thought it would be good to see it by night.
Breakfast is free at the hostel (well it's not really when you consider it's costing us $100 a night to stay here!! it consists of Cheerios and toast with peanut butter or jam. Cheerios are lovely, Ive never had em before. There is a Japanese girl staying here and Matt said he saw her yesterday making some peanut butter and jam sandwiches to take out with her. I know we are on a budget but I couldn't live on peanut butter sandwiches!!
Oh by the way did I happen to mention... Im not missing work in the slightest!!!

3 comments:

Palace Fan thats a NEW Dad said...

Glad your enjoying yourselfs !

When you get to Oz / New Zealand there are loads of people "sneaking" sarnies out. You soon get pissed off though when there is no bread for your toast in the morning !

Missing you both and post some pictures up.

Anonymous said...

Hey guys,

Glad to hear you got there safely.

Thanks for text at 2.30am Matt telling me you were 'drinking beer in NYC'..appreciate it. ;o)

Speak to you soon.

Anonymous said...

Oooo thought I had lost this address but managed to locate you crazy guys. So glad you are having fun...and can totally believe how amazing it is just having lots of time and not worrying about going back to a full in-tray at work. Oooo wonder what your accents will be like when you get back hehe. Stay safe. Much love, Anna x (& RRB XXX)