My Visit to NYC!

April 22, 2008 rewheble

Well I haven’t bloogged at all really and I was considering doing it just so I could blrag to you all about my visit to the big apple over the easter hols. the trip was for my dear mum who was turning the ripe (see the link ; ) ) old age of 50 so to celebrate her half a century we decided my mum, a few others and I would leave my dad, who can’t handle the long flights, in boring london for the bigger better New York. 

I must warn anyone who is planning to go New York be prepared for lack of sleep and achey feet if you want to make the most of it. We see barely any of the sights and still managed to kill our feet by the end of each day. I must recommend you visit the Empire State building. It’s $19 approx, which in the good strong pound is around £9.50 which isn’t bad. They were carrying out a refurb while I was there but it was still worth every penny or, if you want to be technical, cent! I had luckily visited NY the year before but the views from the E.S were still as breathtaking as before. You can see the entire city, with the statue of liberty looking the size of a childs toy! I must warn you ladies, do not wear any floaty, chiffon or any light clothing when going up to the observatory. Remember you are over 80floors up which equals very VERY windy weather.

We were only there for about 3days, and trust me, i got a stomach bug/food poisoning on my second day which left me out for that whole day : (. The rest of my lot tried to go to the statue of liberty on that day but were faced with massive queues for the free ferry. Speaking from experience that is a must see. As an avid fan of Titanic, I felt a bit like Kate Winslet standing next to the statue and if I manage to work out how you upload photos on here I have a great pic of me standing right in front of it.

One of the best places to go for all shoppers is Tiffany’s and Abercrombie and Fitch. They are pratically opposite eachother. I felt like having an Audrey Hepburn moment and eating a croissant as I stood outside the mammoth building with its gleaming revolving doors willing me in. One thing Hepburn got right was to wear sunglasses as you go in as the reflection you get off the thousands of diamonds just in the ground floor is enough to blind anyone! Abercrombie and Fitch, a clothes shop to the bewildered, is just as enchanting, with hunky, may i mention they are topless, men drawing you in with good looks and smooth charming new york accent. 

I attempted to do some form of journalism while out there once i managed to get tiffany’s and abercrombie out of my head. I bought an issue of people magazine as well as the New York post, which was 25cents!!! It was a lot like the sun really with small bizarre stories, worth reading only for comedy value. The television was totally different story! The adverts were soooooo cheesy! and there version of GMTV was unbelievably fake and false with all the presenters finding eachothers joke wayyy too funny.

All in all it was such a great trip and I am already tempted to start saving for next year trip there!!!!  

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