Not sure how the moustache thing got going!

On the Thursday night we headed for New Brunswick to see a show. It was a sit down and eat comedy show and totally awesome, worth every dime and wasn’t actually that expensive. The amazing thing being, we paid for the entrance, a meal and our drinks with the meal were refilled free all evening! We watched a guy called Vinnie Brand, do a YouTube search for him, he’s so funny.

Friday was back in New York, you’ve seen that in update 2

On our final Saturday we did the Theme Park near Jackson, NJ. It cost a small fortune as it was expected to be heaving and, by evening, it certainly was! We paid a lot more for their best tickets which meant virtually no queues anywhere and the chance to ride the same ride twice in a row. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a park with so many coasters

Today was their ‘Resident Evil’ event so, the dark promised loads of Zombies, they didn’t disappoint with that one, it was really scary!

Our first ride was Kingda Kar … that tower is 45 stories high, more than half as high as the Empire State Building. Passengers are hurled forward to 128mph in around 3 seconds all the way to the top, hopefully over and down a spiral track the other side! It’s awesome and one hell of an experience!

Our second was this awesome wooden coaster and yes, we did this twice!

The 3 Amigos had an awesome time … still can’t believe I missed the first Zombie which got Adam & Daisy just inches away from me!

Zombies on stage, it gave us the feeling that if they were there they might not be so all over the place everywhere else!

Some friendly Zombies

Our final day was on the way to the airport. We didn’t have a lot planned. Basically it was go visit Coney Island, see the New York Aquarium there and then head for the plane. It was raining so the Coney Island bit was really short. We still did the aquarium but there is only so much to do there. So, from Coney Island, which was also familiar to us because of playing Grand Theft Auto on the XBox, we went to a local shopping area. We’d not done a Target store so thought we’d go take a look, we also had a lovely steak in a nearby steakhouse except Adam who sensibly for him, stuck to chicken. Still running too early I thought we’d go check out Flushing Meadows as I’d done with Sean.

Many will also recognise this from Grand Theft Auto as where we do destruction derby but also from Iron Man and Men in Black.

Our timing at the airport was then exceptionally good, just time to end that game of Uno …

… and then the flight home

Not sure how the moustache thing got going!

On the Thursday night we headed for New Brunswick to see a show. It was a sit down and eat comedy show and totally awesome, worth every dime and wasn’t actually that expensive. The amazing thing being, we paid for the entrance, a meal and our drinks with the meal were refilled free all evening! We watched a guy called Vinnie Brand, do a YouTube search for him, he’s so funny.

Friday was back in New York, you’ve seen that in update 2

On our final Saturday we did the Theme Park near Jackson, NJ. It cost a small fortune as it was expected to be heaving and, by evening, it certainly was! We paid a lot more for their best tickets which meant virtually no queues anywhere and the chance to ride the same ride twice in a row. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a park with so many coasters

Today was their ‘Resident Evil’ event so, the dark promised loads of Zombies, they didn’t disappoint with that one, it was really scary!

Our first ride was Kingda Kar … that tower is 45 stories high, more than half as high as the Empire State Building. Passengers are hurled forward to 128mph in around 3 seconds all the way to the top, hopefully over and down a spiral track the other side! It’s awesome and one hell of an experience!

Our second was this awesome wooden coaster and yes, we did this twice!

The 3 Amigos had an awesome time … still can’t believe I missed the first Zombie which got Adam & Daisy just inches away from me!

Zombies on stage, it gave us the feeling that if they were there they might not be so all over the place everywhere else!

Some friendly Zombies

Our final day was on the way to the airport. We didn’t have a lot planned. Basically it was go visit Coney Island, see the New York Aquarium there and then head for the plane. It was raining so the Coney Island bit was really short. We still did the aquarium but there is only so much to do there. So, from Coney Island, which was also familiar to us because of playing Grand Theft Auto on the XBox, we went to a local shopping area. We’d not done a Target store so thought we’d go take a look, we also had a lovely steak in a nearby steakhouse except Adam who sensibly for him, stuck to chicken. Still running too early I thought we’d go check out Flushing Meadows as I’d done with Sean.

Many will also recognise this from Grand Theft Auto as where we do destruction derby but also from Iron Man and Men in Black.

Our timing at the airport was then exceptionally good, just time to end that game of Uno …

… and then the flight home

Disney Store on Times Square which plays Karaoke Disney Songs!

Maybe one of the most famous Toy stores in the world, quite likely Toys R Us own it now! This is the last one left but it isn’t where it used to be in Times Square any longer, back then it was used in the Tom Hanks movie ‘Big’. That building is now Toys R Us and this is next to the huge underground Apple Store by South East Central Park.

Not sure if Daisy or Adam found this store but it was rather a large place dedicated to anything that would horribly give a dentist nightmares, unless they considered the money they’d make on all those bad teeth!

I decided that the only way to get the right shot in Times Square was to actually sit in the road, it was quite fun having the traffic whiz past me really!

We had a totally lazy day where we went to just about nowhere near anywhere important. There we visited a Wal-Mart Super Center and a TJ Maxx which is the same as our TK Maxx only a lot further west than our stores. For midday meal we went to Cracker Barrel where I have been several times but Adam and Daisy hadn’t. It was lovely as always. It was a relaxing, no camera day so, sorry, nothing to show you.

Another visit to Manhattan only this time in much better weather!

It takes around 30 minutes to get from here to Battery Park, you can see the Freedom Tower over my right shoulder. This day was planned to perfection, get there really early, the subway to 34th St and the Empire State Building then onto the ‘Top of the Rock’ on 50th followed by a wander to FAO and Dylan’s then to Central Park Zoo, through the park and onto The History Museum followed by the subway south and home. Well, all went brilliantly, we got the ferry early, in Manhattan by just after 9 and then SHIT! We’d left the damn tickets back in the hotel! So, back on the next ferry, drive back to the hotel, back to Staten Island, get the next ferry, back to Manhattan by which time it’s now 11:30! The queue up the ESB is now 3 hours which would seriously screw up everything. So, we belted up to 50th to the Rockefeller Building ‘Top of the Rock’ and book a slot there for going up. A dash to FAO whilst in the area then back to go up to the 69th!

As you see, the weather was a lot better but we were still very behind schedule so we decided not to attempt ESB until after dark

Central Park is often thought of as a scary crime riddled place best avoided. It’s really not, it’s amazingly peaceful, beautiful even with so many contrasts, so many different things to look at. True, it may be a brave or foolish person who wanders through at night but, by daytime it seemed plenty safe enough to us.

The temptation to be just a little silly is quite powerful

We had a 35 block walk from here back down to the Empire State Building (ESB)

Yes, that’s a long way!

I don’t think my night shots were too bad considering everything looks blurred to me at the moment!

The wait time was a very long and sticky 3 hours + and we still had to walk the last 6 floors!

We were so relieved to get the Subway home from 33rd Penn St back to the Ferry and even more relieved to get the cool air of the ferry back! I think we had Chinese for dinner, it was HUGE!

End of Part 2

Disney Store on Times Square which plays Karaoke Disney Songs!

Maybe one of the most famous Toy stores in the world, quite likely Toys R Us own it now! This is the last one left but it isn’t where it used to be in Times Square any longer, back then it was used in the Tom Hanks movie ‘Big’. That building is now Toys R Us and this is next to the huge underground Apple Store by South East Central Park.

Not sure if Daisy or Adam found this store but it was rather a large place dedicated to anything that would horribly give a dentist nightmares, unless they considered the money they’d make on all those bad teeth!

I decided that the only way to get the right shot in Times Square was to actually sit in the road, it was quite fun having the traffic whiz past me really!

We had a totally lazy day where we went to just about nowhere near anywhere important. There we visited a Wal-Mart Super Center and a TJ Maxx which is the same as our TK Maxx only a lot further west than our stores. For midday meal we went to Cracker Barrel where I have been several times but Adam and Daisy hadn’t. It was lovely as always. It was a relaxing, no camera day so, sorry, nothing to show you.

Another visit to Manhattan only this time in much better weather!

It takes around 30 minutes to get from here to Battery Park, you can see the Freedom Tower over my right shoulder. This day was planned to perfection, get there really early, the subway to 34th St and the Empire State Building then onto the ‘Top of the Rock’ on 50th followed by a wander to FAO and Dylan’s then to Central Park Zoo, through the park and onto The History Museum followed by the subway south and home. Well, all went brilliantly, we got the ferry early, in Manhattan by just after 9 and then SHIT! We’d left the damn tickets back in the hotel! So, back on the next ferry, drive back to the hotel, back to Staten Island, get the next ferry, back to Manhattan by which time it’s now 11:30! The queue up the ESB is now 3 hours which would seriously screw up everything. So, we belted up to 50th to the Rockefeller Building ‘Top of the Rock’ and book a slot there for going up. A dash to FAO whilst in the area then back to go up to the 69th!

As you see, the weather was a lot better but we were still very behind schedule so we decided not to attempt ESB until after dark

Central Park is often thought of as a scary crime riddled place best avoided. It’s really not, it’s amazingly peaceful, beautiful even with so many contrasts, so many different things to look at. True, it may be a brave or foolish person who wanders through at night but, by daytime it seemed plenty safe enough to us.

The temptation to be just a little silly is quite powerful

We had a 35 block walk from here back down to the Empire State Building (ESB)

Yes, that’s a long way!

I don’t think my night shots were too bad considering everything looks blurred to me at the moment!

The wait time was a very long and sticky 3 hours + and we still had to walk the last 6 floors!

We were so relieved to get the Subway home from 33rd Penn St back to the Ferry and even more relieved to get the cool air of the ferry back! I think we had Chinese for dinner, it was HUGE!

End of Part 2