New York 2018 - Day 1 Times Square

On Friday the 9th March 2018 I left the kids with Dad (I was planning on dropping them at school, but they called it a snow day so instead they got to stay home with Dad) and headed for New York.  I drove to Rt 128 Amtrak station and parked the car then jumped on the North East Regional train.  One sock knitted later I arrived at Penn Station to be met by Kate, Christine and Dale on the second leg of their tour of America.

Kate had texted me that they were waiting out of Eight Street, so of course I managed to come out on Seventh Street and had to walk right around the block to find them.  We then headed uptown towards our hotel.  We were all pretty hungry - being after 1pm and none of us has had lunch - so we stopped in at the Shake Shack for a quick lunch whilst waiting for our hotel to be ready.

At 3pm we booked into our hotel - Hotel Edison.  A beautifully restored hotel with a lighting theme.  The lobby was beautiful with great murals all around.

We got a small room on the 9th floor - just enough room for the 4 of us.

After relaxing and settling in we headed down the road to Times Square - a whole 1/2 block away.  We took a walk around the local area before having a easy dinner across the road at Buffalo Wild Wings and ended the night with a trip to Times Square to see it all lit up in the dark.

Kate showing off her new coat that I made for her.

We took a browse around the M&M store.

Kate getting her Saturday night on

New York 2018 - Day 2 Central Park and the Theatre

We started Day 2 in New York with a search for an Australian Coffee and Tea Store Bluestone Lane, then headed towards Central Park.

It's already Spring in Central Park - there were flowers coming out.

We found Strawberry Fields.

Then wandered the paths.

Geeze if you can't trust your best friend not to push you in who can you trust?

We crossed over the Bow Bridge

Then headed around to the Boat House

Some horsing around

Bethesda Terrace

The Alice in Wonderland sculpture

Then the Belvedere Castle.

 A great place for twirling.

A beautiful view over the Turtle Pond.

Trying out the panorama function on my camera.

View looking back at the castle.

We headed out of the park down 6th Avenue - looking for lunch, but instead found the American Doll store.

We walked in for a look and quickly walked back out again - not our sort of place.

We ended up at the Rockefeller Plaza.

Where we found a food court with a great view for lunch.

Had a quiet afternoon before getting ready for our big night out.  We had tickets to see Hello Dolly on Broadway.  We got ourselves all dolled up.

And headed out to the Schubert Theatre.

Pretty good seats.

After the show we headed out for a few cocktails.

New York 2018 - Day 3 - Lower East Side and Brooklyn Bridge

This morning was all about food.  We decided to head down to the Lower East Side and do a food tour.  We managed to figure out the subway - even though the line that we were planning on catching was closed down for the weekend.

We jumped off at Grand Street and finally managed to figure out where we were and where we were going and headed for Katz's Deli for an early lunch.

 

Above the waitresses head you can see the sign advertising the movie When Harry Met Sally.

We ordered the Reubin and the Brisket Sandwich.  Oh so good.

The second stop on our tour was the Knish Bakery where we finally found out what a knish was (and no it wasn't a vermiscious knish).

Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery came next - we were all totally stuffed by this time but we had to share a pumpkin spice cupcake.

We just couldn't face the Doughnut Plant -  but couldn't pass the Pickle Guys.

And entire room full of barrels of pickles.  You name it they pickle it.

We had to try one of course.

Then we decided we needed to walk off some of that food so we waddled down towards the river side.  Under the Manhatten Bridge

 Then down under the Brooklyn Bridge.

We then headed back and walked up onto the Brooklyn Bridge.  It has a walkway above the road way in the centre of the bridge.

There were just a few people walking across the bridge.

view looking down at the cars.

looking back towards Manhatten

Who's that we can spy in the background.

We made it all the way to Brooklyn.

Got off the bridge and found somewhere for a drink - in a little suburb called Dumbo!

We then went looking for a subway station to get home.  Of course the one we went looking for was closed down - we're not having much luck with subways.  But at least we got a nice stroll through Brooklyn Heights.

Caught the train back to Grand Central Station.

Then headed back to our hotel. Dinner was at the Westway Diner