Hello from New York City! The weather has been mostly wet and cold, but today we had out most sunny day yet and it even reached 25 degrees! We'll probably have burnt noses and necks tomorrow when we wake up, but it was so nice to not have to carry around the umbrella and extra layers of clothes.
So we're staying in Chelsea and have spent most of our time around here in the Meat-Packing District and in Greenwich Village. We've walked to Soho for some window shopping and spent some hours in the East Village too. Today we stumbled into so many street markets and even a dance festival that ended in a park at the end of St Marks Place. Such a great atmosphere in the sun, and you can imagine the different weird and wonderful characters that we came across... My favourite was the bulldog in his human sister's pram!
We walked all the way uptown to Times Square, Rockefeller Centre and Central Park one day and managed to get tickets to see Jimmy Fallon's Monologue Rehearsal at NBC. It only lasted for about 15-20 minutes, but he spoke to us for a while before he trialled his jokes on us. It was very cool. We've also put our names down for standby tickets for David Letterman next week.
We took the subway to the Museum of Modern Art yesterday and spent a couple of arduous hours looking around at the 'art'... it was definitely not my cup of tea, although they did showcase a few Monet and Van Gogh paintings, which were gorgeous. The rest of the 'art' included ugly furniture and bits and pieces of what I would call 'crap' all stuck together and somehow managed to end up in a museum... one of these pieces was a shopping trolley with supermarket bags full of empty cans and bottles tied to the sides... we saw about 10 different homeless men wheeling the same style trolleys on the way to the museum! Anyway... we left MOMA and headed further uptown to the Upper East Side and had lunch and yet another vegan cafe we googled. That area around East 72nd was just beautiful. We walked to Central park from there and didn't get very far in before Brendan crashed and needed to return to the hotel for some R&R as he came down with a bad cold, probably due to the terrible weather changes!
We've also spent a bit of time with Andy, Steph's son who lives in Queens at the moment, while studying acting in Midtown. We went to a few bars, one of which was The Dove in Greenwich, which is so cute. Another was '230 Fifth' Ave, but unfortunately it was the most dated and daggy place we've ever been! It was on the rooftop of a building on fifth ave, and before we made it outside we passed a hanger rack full of 'snuggies' and blankets... so we went outside anyway and it really was a great view, but such a depressing group of patrons and decor... we left after one drink.
Last night we saw a band 'Murder By Death' who Brendan has listened to for years, on a boat that cruised up the East River for 3 hours. It was fantastic. The boat hovered for a while in front of the Statue of Liberty which was so cool, as Andy hadn't been that close to her before.
Here are some pictures from both mine and Brendan's cameras so the pictures will be a bit out of order and all over the shop. We hope you enjoy them. xx
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