The Mall New York City

Friday, June 1, 2012

After the ridiculous length of both of the last two days, I allowed myself a bit of a snooze this morning. I woke up around 9, then sort of pottered around the hotel room a bit. Checked some emails,etc. I was really feeling the sunburn by this point and it almost made me not want to go outside. I knew that wasn't an …

We were up reasonably early to again find that flurries and rain were with us still. We headed out into bustling Times Square and grabbed a coffee before purchasing tickets to see a couple of shows for tonight and tomorrow night then hopped on the subway and journeyed uptown to 66th Street ( Lincoln Square) to get some serious shopping in at …

... which is in loads of films and is in paintings being sold all around the park. It is down on the park map as The Mall, so I spent all day wandering around the park (and it is a massive park - miles in length) trying to find this sodding place. Do you ...

...  Then I'm hoping to just relax a bit the rest of the day to rest my feet from the crazy walking around the mall in DC. Tomorrow I'm sure I'll walk lots and lots... hopefully there'll be nice weather in NYC and I can hang out at the beautiful ...

WOW!!! was my first impression upon arriving in New York; the yacht I was joining moored directly in front of the Statue of Liberty! The song "New York" by Jay-Z & Alicia Keys played in my mind on the approach to the boat by tender. ...

... cars, Marlboro men, God knows.  Satisfying.  Then yet another sprint up 5th to the Museum of the City of New York, where I dozed off during the obligatory orientation movie.  Staggered around it a bit and then walked in Central ...

... to Harrisburg the day before.  Regardless, we dropped off Hannah at the kennel early in order to finish packing and make our way to the mall to pick up the Megabus.  The first leg to Philly was fairly uneventful if you are not counting the fact ...

... tourists (with maps upside down), all add to the beauty and character of the Park.   With 34 degrees coming from the New York sun, we all felt a little sticky and thirsty, quite opposite from our Aussie winter we had just left behind.  ...

... make it out of JFK. Was supposed to go to a nice shopping area in forest hills, but think the cab driver thought I wanted the mall. So I went to Queens Center--whoohoo--flew all the way to NY to go to Macy's and eat at applebees! Oh well, the people ...

... and got picked up and taken to the hotel. Our hotel was the Wellington Hotel, which I stayed at last time I was in New York City. The good thing about this hotel is it is cheap enough, not too flash in comparison to Sheraton or Hilton but nice enough ...

... was in between the jungle of buildings. We walked past the Carrousel, passing the Sheep Meadow, down The Mall to the Lake.   Back to the jungle city to have lunch thereafter some window shopping along Fifth Avenue. We made out way back to ...

... asleep. I ate a great breakfast at the hostel - a variation of that served at Hotel Bambu - and decided to head over to the Mall del Sol to kill some time before heading to the airport. The Mall del Sol is the largest and most modern shopping mall in ...