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...

Wow! What a different Christmas day! It was my turn for insomnia and sometime after 3.00am I managed to finally doze off but not before the city that never sleeps slept! It was really quiet... Not a sound to be heard!! So Christmas Day dawned with us waking the children at 8.30 am .. No Santa means no excitement or so it seems. Present opening was quick as the kids got their big presents ( Jack a phone and Kate a Nintendo 3D Ds) before Christmas for inflight ente...

Merry Christmas everyone in good old Aust! We are not quite there yet. Today we headed off in search of groceries ... A boring mundane thing but essential with Christmas day looming. A task one would assume was simple and ad that been the case we would have done that on day one at Walmart but hmph! Cabs don't go to New Jersey and Walmart does not come to New York! Almost an impossibility but we did manage to find Duane and Reed ( named for the street corner the...

Kate finally found her New York sleeping rhythm and slept 12+ hours so a late start happened today. We opted to head for Century 21 which is the outlet department store in NY directly opposite Ground Zero. Proud to say Jack proved to be the Subway guru and successfully manoeurved us around NY today! Has brunch consisting of pizza and/or nachos both interesting in cooking!!! After brunch we braved the Century 21 where it did my head in in it's lack of organizatio...