Final day!!! Just managed to squeeze everything into our bags, and get them shut! Our hostel even had scales, and we think we’re ok on weight! If not, we’ll be wearing what we’ve bought on the plane!! Had breakfast and left our bags in storage and headed out for the day. We went straight down to the waterfront and caught the free ferry to Staten Island. We only went as you got a better view of the statue of liberty! We thought we may as well look around th...

This morning we got up reasonably early and headed over to Long Island to visit Mark’s Aunty and Uncle. We got the train there, so passed through other areas of New York, nothing special though! Mark’s aunty picked us up and took us back to her house. She lives in what we imagined an American house to be like! We were fed straight away which went down well with Mark! After chilling and catching up for a bit, Mark’s uncle took us to the local ‘mall’ and ...

First thing we caught the subway to the city hall, as we could see it better today as there were no Yankees fans!! We then wondered through Chinatown, which was very different to the rest of New York. You could notice the difference in the people straight away, and it wasn’t as well looked after. Chinatown was close to Little Italy which we expected to be more than it was. It was much smaller and there were not as many cafes as we had thought. Then it was back...

First thing we wondered through Central Park for a bit before getting the subway to the financial district. We got off near to the World Trade Center site, but realised as soon as we got off the train that it wasn’t going to be easy to get out of the station, let alone to the site! The area was swamped with Yankee fans as they were having their celebratory parade along Broadway! We struggled to get away from all the crowds as they were everywhere!! We have sinc...

Fireworks night..but none here.. humf!  We had a late night last night watching the Yankees winning the world series, which resulted in a late morning! Oops! We doubled up on layers as it was a tad nippy yesterday! We wondered through central park again, but on the east side this time. We passed one of the Ice Rinks..and are considering going tomorrow evening! The park is so huge, with lots of different things..even the zoo (from Madagascar!)!! We had a mooc...