Again, not a great weather day today. Dad phoned while were were getting showered, dressed and packed to say that he was looking at a street-level webcam of Times Square, so we arranged to call him to let him know we were about to walk past it and wave to him. How cool is that? We were waving to someone who's 3,000 miles away and he could see us in real time! He called us back to let us know he had seen us, then we went on our way for the now traditional pancake breakfast. Before that, though, I resolved that I would not end the day with my hair in the state it was yesterday, which was a blonde version of the 'Monica in Barbados' picture on the right. So I spent the best $3 of the weekend on a Yankees baseball hat and tied my hair back into a pony tail. After breakfast, the next stop was NBC Studios for a studio tour, which was OK but probably would have been better if we'd actually known who Brian Williams was, given that we toured his studio :). I had left my ring at Tiffany's yesterday to be cleaned, so we went back to pick it up, and boy, it was shiny! Then we had some lunch before going on a tour of Carnegie Hall, which was excellent. The Minnesota State Orchestra was rehearsing for a performance this evening, and they sounded fantastic in the acoustically close-to-perfect hall.
We came out of Carnegie Hall at about 15:00 and the original plan was to go for a carriage ride round Central Park before going back to the hotel to pick up our bags, but the rain was unrelenting and we decided a ride in an open top carriage probably wouldn't be much fun, so we opted for a couple of hot chocolates and a review of our photographs before heading back to the hotel to pick up our bags. One thing I didn't know about my Mum before this trip is that she loves riding on public transport in foreign countries - trams, buses, subways, trains, you name it - so seeing as we had plenty of time and not very much cash left, we took the bus from Port Authority back to the airport.
In conclusion, a great trip. The weather could have been kinder, but despite that, we all enjoyed ourselves and are looking forward to the next visit... :).
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I love riding public transport in foreign countries too!! When I was traveling in Dec 2006 it was SO cold, so we'd buy 24-hour travel cards and literally just hop on any tram, subway, or bus and get off whenever we saw something interesting, wanted to switch directions, or somone creepy sat by us. I didn't see many "touristy" sites, but I saw a whole lot of the cities!
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