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NYC 4

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Another big steppage day of 32000 and a day of pissed off New Yorkers. I nearly got battered by a group of twitchers and Santa nearly got attacked by a man with a CD. But more from that later!

This morning started NYC style with a big fat cream cheese filled bagel. I would highly recommend ‘best bagel and coffee’ – the name says it all. Freshly made daily and a stupid amount of cheesey fillings. You know it’s good when the locals queue out rhe door.

We headed to central park for a morning stroll and walked past a group of people with their big posh cameras. Intrigued we went over to find out what was so interesting; a small owl ripping a red cardinal apart! Unfortunately as I don’t have a camera with a 1000000x lense I had to move slightly closer to the tree to get a good photo (about 2 steps closer than everyone else). Turns out doing this was the complete wrong thing to do as it caused the owl to stop eating and this meant absolute uproar! I was told off on 3 separate occasions including one about 5 minutes after it had happened – how dare I disrespect owls and make it stop eating. Now they were going to have to wait for it to start again! At least it didn’t fly off as that would have been major awks. I could hear them all moaning saying “it was that girl there”.. bitch please, I am all woman!!

As we all know Santa likes a beer so after my bollocking we went to the oldest Irish tavern in NYC. Sawdust all over the floor added to the ambiance and Santa enjoyed quality controlling the dark and light beers.

I have always wanted to try a cronut so I marched the rents to a bakery famous for them; and it didn’t dissapoint. The VALRHONA DULCEY CHOCOLATE GINGERSNAP cronut was delicious and definately worth all the calories! Check out Dominique Ansel bakery for this tasty treat.

As the weather was so much better than Sunday we headed back to the DUMBO area to get a better look at the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge as well as the skyline. This is the perfect place to capture sunsets over the city as well as the famous view of Manhattan Bridge framed by buildings either side. Momma was able to use her new toy (it’s a camera you filthy animals) and got lots of amazing photos.

We had a chilly walk back across the Brooklyn bridge into Manhattan, back to the room for a cheeky charge before heading to a brewery for tonight’s food and a final stop in Times Square. Santa was offered a CD by somebody in the street but unfortunately didn’t seem to understand the etiquette and didn’t realise this CD wasn’t free. Marching off with said CD and he was chased by a very angry man who was not the sort to mess with!

Bags are now all packed ready for the last day tomorrow đŸ˜­

NYC 2

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26000 steps later and another day done in The Big Apple. As with tradition we started the day off by getting our faces on a billboard in Times Square.

This morning was all about district hopping. Starting at Flatiron and moving through Greenwich, Meatpacking, High Line and down to the Financial district. Unfortunately it was Soggy Sunday so most of it was spent umbrella dodging. These areas are a lot quieter to what you’d find around places like Times Square so is nice to escape the hustle and bustle. We managed to stumble across the Magnolia Bakery and as the queue wasn’t out the door, we had to quality control the cakes. Lovely cake but even for me there was slightly too much buttercream!

Santa has found a new love for photography; I didn’t think it was possible to take so many angles of the Flatiron building.

This afternoon we headed over to Brooklyn and the DUMBO area to check out the Manhattan Bridge. Again Mother Nature was in a strop and decided to add a thick layer of fog across the East River. It did however create a very eerie atmosphere which made for some great photos.

As darkness fell we headed back into Manhattan to finally see the Rockerfeller Tree which was still being decorated when we were last here. The area is so so busy but it’s easy to see why. The tree is fabulously festive and the Saks light show was beautiful. There was even a proposal on the ice rink – the 3rd we’ve seen today!

Dinner tonight was something I have wanted to do for ages; Ellen Stardust Diner. The 40 minute queue was so worth it as were treated to the most fabulously camp show full of Broadway and Disney. To top it off I had an enormous burger and brownie. Bring on the poo knife!