New York City: Day 2

A few of my UBC friends happened to also be in NYC this week, so our main aim this morning was to meet with Claire and orient ourselves with Manhattan. In both those regards we succeeded – and kind of randomly too! I had left Claire Facebook messages (and vice-versa) and it worked – we met at Macy’s Christmas windows. Anyone who has visited NYC realises what an unlikely scenario this is – those places are PACKED! But we did it, and Ange & Claire met over some Starbucks. How New York of us! Unfortunately, Ange wasn’t feeling too great (jet lag setting in), but we plodded along really well!

We walked all the way up 6th Avenue to the Rockefeller Centre (and therefore the ice rink), then turned around and came back down 5th Avenue to Times Square. As part of all this we passed the Saks store on Fifth Avenue (which had the best designed windows of the lot!), Bloomingdales, and the New York Public Library. By then it was sunset, and we took the subway to Brooklyn and crossed the bridge back to Manhattan. It’s an awesome view, and the weather wasn’t nearly as cold as we had expected. It’s still cold, but only about 5 degrees. That’s not cold here!

We had dinner at Chinatown (lo mein), which was super cheap and surprisingly good. However, we fell victim to the ‘quantity over quality’ game, and ordered a separate meal each. BIG mistake – I think we had to leave half of it. The idea of doggy-bagging everything is common, but not so useful when its noodles! We made our way north again to Times Square to see it at night. In the process shopping at the Virgin Megastore and riding on the Ferris Wheel in the Toys’R’Us store (as you do!). It’s now the biggest toy store in the world as the FAO Schwarz has closed.

Phew! And now it’s midnight and I’m SO tired!