A relaxed kind of day today after a busy one yesterday. We leisurely enjoyed our buffet breakfast, mum even scoring a loaf of gluten-free bread, then went to check the post office hours a few blocks away & stumbled upon an antique market when I managed to buy a new travel wallet for $5! We keep wandering through the old town area, although not much was open and then finally found the residents of Toronto all keeping wam (or hot as the case was) in the shoppin...

After only a 3 hours flight (& sleeping for maybe 2 of it) we arrived in NYC where we had to farewell Jess & Sean as went our separate ways. With little sleep but plenty of enthusiasm mum & I headed towards the air train to conquer as much as we could during our 7hr stopover. From the air train we took the 'A' train/subway into Fulton street to firstly see ground zero which was no longer squares of temporary fencing like when I was here in 2003 but we...