This morning we rose at 5am and had an early breakfast. As we ate our brekky, watching the city go by, we sailed past the Statue of Liberty!! We finished packing up and treked down to the Queen's Room for our 7.30am depature - finally off the ship at about 8am. As we exited the terminal there was a man organising transport. We told him we were getting a cab to Newark (we had been told by the Purser's Desk that this should cost us $75) and he told us we could go...

This morning was soooooo long!! We slept in, had a leisurely breakfast and then packed ourselves up. Tom went to the camera shop around the corner and found that they usually like 4 hours to transfer photos to a CD, but they said it would be done by 1pm, and it was!!! We checked out at noon and moved our luggage to the foyer, where we waited until 1pm - then our doorman got us a cab that took us to the wharf. We were there just before 1.30pm and it was already c...

Today we took it easy. After brekky we walked down to the subway and worked out how to obtain tickets using our credit card and a touch screen. We caught the subway down to City Hall and walked over to Ground Zero where we took photos and read all all the information boards. They have a list of all the heroes, including those on the plane that crashed in a paddock. It was 45 mins late leaving the airport, otherwise it would have been successful in its mission. W...

Goodness, what a day!! What didn't we see?? I can only remember the highlights. After an early brekky we walked over to the Greyline Depot by 8.40am to get our tour. The tour started at 9am and we weren't back to our room till 7.30pm!!! We drove down to Battery Park via Everywhere (Time's Square, Macy's, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, Empire State Building, Madison Square, Madame Tussaud's) and then we caught the ferry (after taking off our watches, belts, ba...

What a lovely day!! First we had to walk a couple of blocks to a grocery store and buy some milk for our brekky - returned, had brekky and then set out at around 11am - walking all the way across to the Intrepid Museum - interesting walk. We finally went on the Concorde - narrow seats - all sealed but you could still smell the leather. We saw lots of planes and helicopters on board the aircraft carrier (Tom in heaven), but unfortunately the submarine was clo...