Fairfield Inn New York Long Island City/Queens

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... the many skyscrapers of Wall street and truley stood in the shadow of the Twin Towers, The World Trade Centre. What makes it truley amazing is, it was only yards away from building 5 of the Trade Centre and yet it came through unscathed. To quote the Rev. Lyndon Harris's foreword in a book called Light at Ground Zero which I bought there "I assumed the chapel had been demolished. When I saw the spire still standing, I was ...

... a batchellor apartment which he used mostly for guests and Couchsurfers. But on the way we stopped in Odda where we visited his cousin. I thought this a most charming village right on the neck of the Eidfjord. The houses appear to be desperately clinging to the steep sides of the mountains on both the right and left banks of the Fjord. They are all painted bright colours and offer a storybook view of life in a small town in Norway. We ...

... turns out, their plane was delayed in England and with no way to contact us, we were left to fear the worst. But, by 7pm we were all together, Chris' parents seeing us for the first time in 11 months (and not altogether impressed with Chris' wild hair and overgrown beard). Before we arrived, we had assumed that with most New York apartments resembling an ant's shoebox, our stay would be a rather ...

... pizza we have ever eaten. We all had to be careful walking outside though due to the snow and ice on the sidewalk (sounding like a local already heh???). Ali did not feel any better this morning (Sunday) so I took her to the nearest hospital, much like the one on ER, and we spent the day there with her being assessed and scanned. It turns out that she has appendicitis and needs an ...

... We checked in and braved the commute over to Manhattan, which was easy but slow with peak hour traffic. Exiting at Port Authority was an assault on the senses but the kids took it all in their stride and we managed to keep everyone together as we marched toward Times Square. Aviva saw a poster for the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid, so we dashed in to enquire about tickets, and while inside a thunderstorm erupted leaving us ...

... to walk the Brooklyn Bridge as I was only a couple of block away. Good walk, great view of the financial district, sun popped out a couple of times so was pretty hot when I got back, had a bit of a rest the hopped the subway back uptown. Stopped at Whole Food market for some essentials (and a six-pack of beer!) and back to the room for a rest and cool down. Had a couple of beers and ventured back out to get some food as it was still very warm in the ...

... the North East and Eric just about made it (with a taped on windscreen wiper, clogged up windscreen washers and a very white and salty windscreen) and we also narrowly missed a deer that decided to run at us on the highway. Anyway the snow storm came at perfect time because i set off for Mont Tremblant on Tuesday.

... in Savannah, read, very expensive closet room) around eight p.m., cleared off the dust and wind from our drive up from Florida, but on the fancy digs, de-racked our bicyclettes and hit the town. I must say that our first night I was a little shocked as I had always heard that Savannah was such a party town, but I did not remember that party to include a million and one preppies in polo shirts! Morgan and I searched around for the fun "hipster" scene, but could not ...