Our last day in New York dawned fine and not so cold. We headed off down 8th Avenue towards Time Square with a stop for Kate to grab some "Ray Bans" ( 3 for $10) ...bargain!! From there Kate, Jack and I took off to help Gil Grissom out with a case at CSI The Experience . Naturally we were awesome and Gil asked us to stay on!!! Lol!!! From here we dropped into the apartment to drop off Adrian's shopping ( that's what he did while we were forensically ski...

Today we decided to take Basement man's advice - after all he is a New Yorker- and headed off by foot along Broadway heading Uptown. Didn't get very far before we hit O.M.G Jeans and I got a pair of Levi's for $42! Bargain! Then we stepped our way to 57th where we found a discount clothing shop called Daffys. Saw lots of nice coats but figured I had already bought 2 so need no more. Kate scored a nice little top so we continued our merry little journey past the h...

An early start today mainly cos I didn't read the invoice and went on what was firmly set in my memory... Good news is we were an hour and a half early! Had morning tea at a diner before the trapeze lesson and Adrian and Kate shared the best cheesecake ever! Trapeze school was the order of the day and , without bragging too much, both Kate and Jack excelled! Yes Kate's gymnastics,trampolining and diving all came into helping but Jack also excelled - he credits hi...

Today we headed off to Brooklyn to visit the Brooklyn Ice cream factory and the Brooklyn bridge. Jack's awesome mastery of the subway kept us in good stead and we successfully arrived in Brooklyn where we headed for the river while searching for a cafe for some morning tea for Adrian. The area around Clark Street was gorgeous - brownstones and very civilized and, I'm guessing, not cheap!!! I would live there!!! The walk along Brooklyn Promenade was chilly as the ...

Boxing Day! Boxing Day sales! We queued at Abercrombie & Fitch to get in the door.... Flagship stores DO NOT do sales .... How many A & F stores in NY? One!!! Ooops! So got the cologne ( Christmas present) and the polo shirt anyway. Wandered around 5 th Avenue until hunger set in and found a food place called Diigby's that you could get a salad - so here you bought a bowl of lettuce or spinach leaves ($3.99) and then you go to the salad man and choose you...