Well the weather was just as predicted for this Tuesday our last day in New York. Pretty darn crappy. But there was so much we still wanted to see! We decided to save our legs and get on the subway towards Central Park where the museum of Natural History lives. Ok we'll when we arrived the line was quite big so we decided a little walk through the park while the crowd subsides. On our way through the park we bumped into a tv pilot shoot of The Mysteries of ...

Quick quick lets get to Empire early no time for breakfast lets go and line up again. This time we had our tickets and just had to get through security not long and we were on our way in the elevator up to the 86th floor. Eep it was high and a good view. But the Top of the Rock was the better stop. It had a great view of Central Park but it also had an eye level view of the Empire State which is much better looking at than from I think. Also the rock had muc...

Sunday - This morning we headed to the Empire State Building to try and see the view. After running around exchanging a ticket for another ticket then security checks we did the virtual tour of New York which was nice. It mentioned the fallen towers and that the Empire was always going to be overtaken in height at some point but was standing proud to be a building built in the 1930's in a very short time frame where buildings today still take longer to build. ...

Saturday in New York Yay for New York! Was a bit of a sleep in this morning the room at the pod was quite dark and we didn't realise how late it was. We got ready for the day & headed down to the pod breakfast area for the $4 Bagel & coffee deal. My first bagel of the trip. It was pretty good but the best thing was it was something to get the day started. It's tough not knowing where to go for something to eat in the mornings so it made for a good s...

We had an early start this morning. Breakfast & on the bus by 7 for a visit to the Fort Niagara first up. Mike really enjoyed the stop. It's an old stone castle which was used as a fort in the battle between the British and the French. They demonstrated an old gun which was used and explained that it was such a crappy shot there was no aiming required. In fact if the bullet came out of the gun when the trigger was pulled you were having a good day. It fi...