We both woke up this morning feeling rather crap. Dodge throat and all.... hopefully not a Swine Flu symptom?? :) Anyways only 3 full days left so we were determined not to waste anytime. Slapped on the sunscreen and off we went walking through Central Park. The whole of Manhattan's roads are on a grid system. Central Park was built purposely with curved paths and roads as the idea is they want you to get lost. We walked all the way through which was nice and ...

Mini drama last night. So we are getting ready for bed when 2 random girls carry a extremely drunk girl into our room and dump her on the top bunk. Guessing they found her and helped her back to her room.Anyways we are in bed... listening to music (it drowns out the snoring) when i here Laura talking. Sitting up i can see (and hear which is so gross) the drunk girl throwing up in bed. Its dripping onto the floor and bed below. The girl in the bed below looks scar...

First on our agenda was to go buy bagels from a shop our Big Apple Greeter recommended. Our faves are the garlic ones with poppy seeds. So scrummy! Did you know Opium comes from poppys and if you are being drug tested dont eat poppy seeds as you will fail. A random fact from our guide yesterday. Our first stop was Ground Zero. Seeing where the Twin towers actually stood was pretty cool as obviously we all watched them fall on tv. There is a lot of building work...

Up and about early this morning as we had our tour with the Big Apple Greater Laura booked us in with before we left England. He is a local who lives in the Upper West side. He showed us how to navigate the area and cool places to eat, shop and see. He took us to John Lennons house and showed us where he was shot. then we went to the memorial garden in Central Park that Yoko made in his memory. Its really nice and has a mosaic with the song Imagine in it. Aft...

Caught the Megabus to New York. Took about 5 hours. Seeing the skyline in the distance was really cool and we started getting uber excited :) On the subway to the hostel some local guy was telling us how dangerous the Upper West Side was and how to truse no one. What a great welcome to New York. Had to wait a few hours to check in so we signed up for the evening tour run by the hostel to Staten Island that evening. Our guide was Don, a born and bred New Yorke...