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New York Day 1: snoozing, ferry and NY comedy
For some reason Simon and I felt incredibly rough today, we watched trashy chat shows and slept through most of the morning with headaches from hell. It could be jet lag, it could be not drinking enough water, it could probably be a tea withdrawal symptoms though! Eventually surfacing from the room we strolled up to Central Park via some very fine pizza on the Upper West Side. We snoozed in the 'sheep field' for nearly 2 hours before going to the Apple store to play with an iPhone, it is so lovely! we then took the (extremely hot) metro to the Stratten Island ferry port.
The Stratten Island ferry is free and well worth a trip, it goes past the statue of Liberty which you can see from the port side of the ferry. I think I must have a vivid imagination of large things, like giraffes, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, I imagined all of them to be bigger than they are in real life, giraffes were a particular disappointment. The Statue of Liberty is still very impressive though! When you get to Stratten Island and arrive in 'New Brighton' you have to get off the ferry and walk through the ferry port in order to get back on to go back.
Back in Times square we investigated tickets to the musical murder mystery 'Curtains' staring Niles Craine! as it was sold out we are adding it to our itinerary for Monday, it looks really fun! Our evening entertainment for tonight instead consisted of one of the only good Mexican restaurants in New York apparently, and then the Laugh Factory which was funny in places but generally quite offensive. I was really surprised at how many racist jokes there were, like it was really normal, very odd!
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New York Day 1: Views, steak and cheesecake!
After 18 hours of solid packing we were pretty tired as we woke for the journey to Gatwick at 04:30 am. Our 7 hour flight to New York was realtively uneventful, but it was a shame that Simon and I didnt manage to get seats next to each other. I noticed that as the food went round those (including the Orthadox Jew 2 rows in front) who had ordered Kosher food got very nice looking dinners that were substantially larger than the regular meals which also arrived 30 mins later than the Kosher food! If you ever have to travel on Continental airlines that might be worth a try!
Once we had checked into our 'EconoLodge' - classy hotel that it isn't - we decided our first meal in New York would be our 'Blow Out' meal, we were able to enjoy it because we hadn't been here long enough for our stomachs to be corrupted with rich American food (I was so ill when we went to Texas for SXSW06). Our chosen venue was Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House, fresh bread was constantly brought to our table, I think we ate two whole loaves, it was lovely! I ordered a Manhattan - corny I know! which I realised I didn't like all that much after all! For starters I ordered crab cakes in Cajun sauce, which was quite spicy but wonderful. It was the steak though that really stole the show, 8oz of Fillet Mignon (the only 8oz steak on the menu), I didn't know meat could taste like that!
Full of delicious steak we went to the 'Top of the Rock' at the Rockefeller / GE building for a sunset view. We had it on good recommendation that this was better than going up the Empire state building because there are less queues and you get to see the Empire state building, also turns out that it was where the famous photo of the men on the girder was taken. It was wonderful, such an amazing view, well worth a visit if you come to New York. Afterwards we went hunting for cheesecake which I found surprisingly full of sugar and without the lovely crushed biscuits I was expecting. A nice stroll back to the EconoLodge took us via Broadway and Times square
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