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On the Saturday we had a bit of a lazy day as we got not much sleep in Vegas really so we got up and just went round the area we stayed in which was 87th street Broadway. It was a really nice area to our left we had central park and to the right we had a nice block of shops. Times square was two Metro stops away.
On the Sunday 29th we got on the metro to Times square and had a wonder round and then jumped back on the metro to look at Ground Zero as we wanted to see the difference from when we saw it 2 years ago. There wasn't much of a difference but this time we went to the fire station near by this was really sad! We then took a walk down Wall Street the home of New York Stock Exchange. Jumping back on the tube we went to Grand Central Station as we didn't do this on our last trip to New York. We then went back to Times Square for a bit before heading back to 87th street as there was a local Market on down Amsterdam Ave this was really nice and was miles long. I also brought my trainers ready for the trek in Peru!
On Monday 30th we were up early as we had to get the Metro to Flushing Meadows to watch the US Open. We had tickets to the Louis Armstrong stadium and our first match was Davydenko vs Russell. We then went to watch our Brit women Elena Baltacha on outside court in which she won and Luke got her autograph. We then went to the grandstand to watch Soderling in which he won! We then went to the practise court to watch Maria Sharapova practicing and also caught Greg Rudseski outside the club house and Luke got a piccy with him! I also sat at the water fountains with a miserable man who happened to be Federers dad he was not happy to be there and when I asked was he proud of his son he just shrugged his shoulders lol! Our last couple of matches we watched was Stosur vs some Russian and Hewitt vs Mathiu. It was a very very hot day but very good!! We got the metro home and went to have dinner near our hotel.
Tuesday 31st we had to get the Metro to the greyhound station at port authority ready to go to Washington! Xx
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