Happy New Year! Spent the first day of the year with the Welch's!!! Had to combine my blogs from the 1st - 3rd, as I've not had time to write in my journal since Nicola and Laura came out. All six of us took a trip down to the Statue of Liberty, where we had to catch a ferry across to the island. It was great to experience seeing such an iconic statue with everyone and I'm really pleased that we had such mild weather while we were out. The Statue of Liberty was ...

Got woken up at 04:30 this morning by a man....Amy had gone to check the time on the clock/radio and touched the radio button, which blared out the radio at ridiculous o'clock! We had to laugh! Visited the Natural History museum today and expected there to be queues galore, but we were so surprised to find it not as busy at what we had expected. The Natural History was pretty impressive but didn't bowl me over as much as the Moma did, but still very glad that w...

Headed to the Rockefeller Centre today, where we queued to buy our fast track tickets, we then queued to get through to security, then queued up as everyone had to have their photos taken! We finally managed to go up the 70 stories to the 360degree view overlooking New York city. Central Park was covered in snow which was very pretty. We had fantastic views overlooking the city and was extremely impressed by how big New York is. Its definitely the biggest city ...