Hi from new york

An early start yesterday saw us catch the 8:15 am plane for new York which was actually quite a quick flight arriving in new york , I think about 12:30 which was 3:30pm new York time. Only problem was the JFK airport was so busy that firstly there wasn't a spot to offload usmpooemtravellers,and then when there was a spot there wasn't a pathwayso we sat on the Tarmac for an hour before we could get off!  From there we discovered that with our supper shuttle booking we had to give our names to the booking desk where we waited formourmdriver to come and fetch us.  That was nearly an hour, some didn't Rrive at the hotel until nearly eight oclock. Oh boy we're we ever hungry so we threw our gear into our tiny but nice room and dashed out right next door to tonys Italian. Yum yum. One huge salad and one huge delicious plate of ravioli was devoured in record time. No drinks spilled in me but the woman next to me to smash a glass that went under our table. Lol

Oh what a night though. We are at the Casablanca hotel right in the thick of things in times square. I now know for certain that the city that never sleeps definitely doesn't. The lights flashed us, the horns tooted at us, the party goers yahooed us........one sleeping tablet later and I didn't hear a thing!

That is until the alarm and it was up, dress down to ricks loung here in the hotel for their complimentary breakfast of cereal yoghurt pastries etc and we were picked up by mike our urban safarimtour guide.
He took us into the subway, onto the ferry to staten island, around lower manhattan ,Greenwich TriBeCa wall street and left us at the 9/11 museum which was really interesting. Oh my poor feet.
He was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of history, great hints etc.

Off to see Mary poppins tonight! Oh dear my typing on my iPad is improving . Sorry.

Talking about being tired. Did I mention that at all?  After,running around to buy a phone card and find a phone that,works and then remember to leave the 0 out  of 07 when dialing, I rang dad,for,his birthday a day early. Oh dear!