Anderson Family Big Holiday Adventure: New York Day 2

New York - Day 2

We seem to be in a routine of getting up and having a swim!! Lovely dip in the pool, shower and get ready for another day of fun packed adventures and new sights to see!

Our new room and now we look out over the River towards the Empire State Building. We are happy as we are on the fourth floor so no-one peering in!!! Exciting day as my new camera has been charged and ready for action!!!!

So I start messing about with the camera and find a mode that can take a photo and turns the one photo into 5 different shots, here it goes I am amazed!!! What tricks I can get up to now!!! So the original photo with Amy and Yorkie xxx

Love this facility of taking one photo and then the camera does some artistic work!

Because we are doing quite a few cities in America we are going to try and find a US flag to put on the front of the suitcase and put the specific cities on the back of the suitcase, New York is first. It was funny there were a few I heart NY but Amy said ‘it has to say New York rather than NY!’ she’s so particular but it is true we came to New York not NY!!

Standard photo and then ……

Hairdresser strikes again I have been picking ideas up from people walking by in the street but this has got to be my most adventurous! The plait on top of her head starts from the other side of her head!!

Just stepped out of our hotel and got to do a selfie with this backdrop

Oh wow my zoom on my camera is sooo much better than my old one!! This is where we are heading to today on a cruise to see Statue of Liberty, WOW!! We were still standing at our hotel when I took this photo, WOW!!

Empire State Building from our hotel!

Here comes our ferry so stop messing about with the camera Angela ha ha!!

Messing about with camera waiting for the ferry to dock!!

I absolutely love my new camera, thank you Colin and Amy xXx

We are surprised at how much air traffic there is along the Hudson River, helicopters, army planes and helicopters, sea planes and just feels like lots and lots of activity in the air. This airplane looks weird!

And there is lots of activity in the River too and with a helicopter above too!

We are off the ferry now and have managed to get to the subway to 34^th Penn Street station which is massive! So Colin has been wondering what Bud Light is but look a Bud Light Lime flavour,

yuck, sounds wrong!!

Madison Square theatre we pass before heading to Pier 78 to catch the cruise to the Statue of Liberty!

We have made it to Pier 78 and look who we saw ha ha!! We arrive just after 12, get our tickets checked and then after a snack of….

chocolate ice-cream we start queuing for the 1pm cruise!

Colin has Mango, yummy and I had Mint, delicious on a hot day!!

We started queuing at 12.30pm and by that point the queue was already long! We are waiting in line when we see 5 airplanes doing a message in the sky ‘Existence or Nonexistance’, random but it is pretty cool watching the letters evolve!

Here we go on the cruise, let’s get a seat!

Well we try and get a seat but the seats are facing out the way on the top deck and in the middle of the deck they are facing each other the opposite way! It feels like a cattle market as people are trying to get good spots for photo taking, mmmm this isn't what I imagined this cruise to be like!!!

New York yellow taxi on the water and the Beast green speedboat behind that does tours to the Statue of Liberty but goes a bit quicker!!

Along the River Hudson, so on the cruise we have a guide John who doesn’t appear to need to breathe as he is rattling everything off that we can see around us!

Now we are out on the River everyone has settled down and I am managing to get some elbow room to take photos, now the cruise is more enjoyable!

The Empire State building

The apartment block on the river front has a few famous people live in there I can only remember Calvin Klein lives in one but he said quite a few people’s names that I recognised!

Or maybe Calvin Klein lived in these apartments, sorry just can’t remember I was in information overload and trying to take photograph’s at the same time was aaaarrrgggghhh!

One World Trade Centre from the River

The brown buildings are air vents for the subway

That is our ferry we have been taking to cross the River Hudson

Battery Park at the lower end of Downtown

Wall street

So close we are nearly there but we are heading up the River first to see the bridges and then back to see the lady!

The clouds on the skyscrapers are beautiful but when you are at the bottom of them looking up it makes me feel sick as they look as if they are moving!

The orange ferry service Staten Islands Ferry to take you to see the Statue of Liberty which New York provides for FREE! But the only problem is that the next available slot to go up the Statue of Liberty is in 45 days time, you gotta be kidding me, that is crazy!! So in New York you obviously need to plan well in advance to see the Statue of Liberty, 9/11 Museum and when you will be hungry after last nights fiasco trying to get a table for tea somewhere ha ha!!

Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge coming into view

The archways are for the ferry terminals that can take cars across the river

The opposite side of the River

The helicopter pad that the President uses when he visits New York, he arrives in 4 helicopters so no-one knows which one he is travelling in. This helicopter pad is just right on the water!

Looking down Wall Street

Brooklyn bridge with a Stalin building behind, funny thought we had left Stalin behind in Moscow!

Going under Brooklyn Bridge

American flag, Brooklyn Bridge and One World Trade Centre captured in one photo, well done camera!

We have turned round now heading back under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge and the tiny pointy bit jutting up at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge is the Statue of Liberty, can’t wait!

Closer up, great zoom :O))

Looking up past the Manhattan Bridge

The Empire State Building on the left and the Chrysler building the spire on the right of the photo

The black skyscraper is Donald Trump’s building, he has a few through the city of New York!!

Beautiful sights :o)

Amy patiently waiting for the Statue of Liberty, not interested in the rest just sitting chilling doing her puzzle book ha ha!!

Now we are heading to see the Statue of Liberty

Here she comes, woop woop!!!

The view behind us!

Zoomed onto our hotel

Amy is off her seat there is only one thing that would do that and that is……..

Not that view anyhow!

Or Ellis Island

Oh yeah baby Statue of Liberty!!!

Stunning sight but you can see lines of people below her, they have tickets booked to climb up but are still stuck in queues, not pleasant at all!

Amy’s excited little face JJ

Now that is a nice shot, thanks camera!

Oh yeah Amy!

Three jet skiers! Felt a bit imposing thought they might have been pirates came to steal the treasure but no just 3 guys enjoying the sun on Memorial Day weekend!

Daddy’s little girl XXX

Admiring the view as we head back to Pier 78 and the end of our 90 minute cruise

The next cruise ship, the cruises are every hour. We are not far from Pier 78

You certainly notice the gap in the skyline with this view!

Dreamy photo of One World Trade Centre

Back to the Pier

Guy in the middle of the Hudson River on a surf board, well that is one way to get around!

We haven’t seen these before Nutella and Go like Choc Dips, yummy Amy’s favourite Nutella!

Our snack Corn Dogs, we have only heard of Corn Dog’s in the movies as in the Smurfs movie!!

Back on Times Square, seems a little more civilised today due to Memorial Day weekend and the rain has stopped so no more fighting with the umbrella’s!

We head back to Times Square and jump on the Hop On Hop off tour, even Yorkie has got a pair of earphones!

Fire brigade getting called out on a 911 call as we drove by!

New York is great to get around, all straight lines!!

The magazine office block that will house all the trendy magazine’s offices when it is completed

Entrance to Central Park, that is on the list for tomorrow!

Another Trump building!

The black building on the left is Trump!

The Sesame Street studios, no Big Bird in sight though!

Beautiful buildings

The Dakota building where John Lennon was shot and where Yoko Ono lives, just opposite this building there is a part of Central Park called Strawberry Fields with a memorial to John Lennon called Imagine, that is also on the cards for tomorrow’s adventure

Museum of Dinosaurs

One of the pieces of Schist (type of rock) that could not be drilled through, not even to continue the subway line so one of the lines has to come onto the main road for 1 minute of its journey!

We have just came from Amsterdam!

Every apartment block in New York built of more than 5 stories high has to have a water tank

In Harlem, one of the many churches

Not sure what the statue is, sorry

Cathedral

St Luke’s Hospital

There are over 400 churches in Harlem covering all religious beliefs

Loads of famous people live in this apartment block, can’t remember who though we were at saturation point of information at this point, sorry!!!

University buildings

Yet another church

Choppers above!

The subway coming up from underground because of the Schist rock!

Harlem streets

Famous Apollo theatre

The Guggenheim Museum

Then we go past a wedding couple who had 6 photographer’s photographing every move they made but then they also had all the tourists on the bus photographing them too hee hee!!

The celeb’s hotel to stay in when in New York!

Carnegie Hall

It is 1750 and it is 79 degrees F

Oh look another Trump building, wow!

We were walking back to the ferry when Amy spotted the top of the One World Trade Centre has lights going in differing patterns of red, white and blue!