Up fairly early as had to pack and eat our complimentary breakfast at the hotel before heading to the train station for a 10:30am train. We were glad we had come straight to Niagara as it was snowing so not sure whether you would even be able to see the Falls today! We travelled 15 minutes over to Niagara, US and had to spend 1 ½ hours in our seats while they performed an immigration and customs check on everyone. It was quite amusing. The quarantine guy was qu...

Hello!! We've had a very busy couple of days. Yesterday, we headed out at lunch time, walking up 5th Avenue towards uptown. We admired the Flatiron Building which is almost cute. It is in the shape of a triangle and one point is only 6 feet across. Can't figure out what furniture they put in that corner as it's rounded as well... We also visited Madison Square Park (not to be confused with Madison Square Gardens the stadium a few blocks across town) and found a ...

Happy New Year to you all!! We hope 2009 is treating you well so far! Yesterday, we got up a bit later than normal and I headed out to meet Sam (a friend from uni who studied in the US last semester and is now staying for next semester too!) at Radio City. I was the first person from home she's seen in 6 months! We wandered through the streets and visited St Patricks Cathedral and then decided to see what the madness was like in Times Sq. There were already peop...

And, true to our luck, our flight was delayed 35 minutes! At least the delays are getting shorter! It meant we didn't arrive into JFK airport until about 4:20pm and so we got stuck in peak hour traffic. It was terrible! But we got a great look at the city and we drove through Times Square the day before the big celebration and the place was buzzing. There were already so many police and cameras and the stages were being set up and people were just watching...so m...

Well, happy birthday to me! Our day started off very, very early and with our fingers crossed. We woke up at 4am to get to the airport to make a 6:45am flight. The airport was packed and as we stood in various queues to get our boarding passes, get through security, customs and immigration, we watched flight after flight be cancelled on the board, even flights after ours were cancelled into New York so we weren't holding high hopes of making it today either. As...