Today we woke up to a rainy morning but we decided to catch a yellow taxi to Pier 78 to take a sightseeing cruise which was included as part of our CitySights tickets. When we got there, we found that we would have to wait over an hour so we decided to pass the time by visiting the Intrepid Museum next door. This is the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Intrepid which is docked in the Hudson and contains a great collection of historic aircraft and other displ...

Today , we walked down to 72nd Street Station and bought Metro Cards. $30 for unlimited rides for a week! Then we took the Subway...only one stop to Times Square where we picked up Explorer Passes and bought CitySights tickets. We toured the sights around Manhattan on top of a CitySights bus and visited the observation deck at the Empire State Building

After arriving at JFK we caught our shuttle to Hotel Beacon. The driver was a nice Chinese guy named Kao. He talked all about New York and gave us some tips. (Not the folding variety ...that was our job!). It was a long slow trip to the hotel - traffic didn't help. Finally got to the hotel about 7:45 pm after landing at 4:30pm. Feeling quite exhausted from the long flight we headed straight to the Viand Cafe downstairs and enjoyed our first meal in New ...