New York Day 2

This day jsut flew by. We started off heading down towards 5th Avenue. We walked quickly through a market - pretty crazy to think they could even shut down a street to run this, but they did. Sherry pointed out a bank that she sneakily got into by pretending to be tagging along with an old guy. Apparantly it was hard to get in anyway due to some parade. Sherry was almost Elaine in the Puorto Recan Day Parade episode of Seinfeld.

After seeing this famous street we decided to try our luck on teh subway and head North a bit. We got on the subway btu we headed way too far up, getting off somewhere on the Upper East side. It was a really quiet part of Manhattan Island and quiet honestly looked like a place where you would be lucky not to get shot if you were walking the streets at night.

I was anxious to find a cab so we could get out of the area, but the trouble was there weren't that many cabs driving about. When we finally did get one the driver was pertty confused 'What are you doing here?' he said. Geeez it was good to get out of there. He took us across town to teh West side which is a bit of a college student area. This are ais also the home of the Seinfeld Diner.

Sherry then looked in a North Face shop for a good winter jacket. I kind of hung out in the shop and also had a bit of a walk around outside. We were so far up Broadway Avenue. We got on the Subway again and made our way down towards Wall Street - as we wanted to catch the Stanton Island Ferry. We could sort of see Ground Zero from the transfer bus that took us to the Ferry stop. The Ferry was massive and it was a real fight for people to get good viewing spots of Manhattan Island (Statue of Liberty) and jsut the plain old city itself.

Once we got to Stanton Island we just went back where we came from.

After hopping off the ferry we walked down towards the docks area. Well not the docks as in rough and tumble docks, but somewhere where we could see Brooklyn Bridge. There were kids skating lines along here, also roller bladers. Sherry wasn't keen on walking along here as it was cold and she wasn't dressed for it. But the bridge looked magnificent.

Only a short walk away was Wall Street. You would think it would be a massive bustling financial street but its basically the size of Flinders lane. Federal Hall was cool. But we couldnt stay too long, It was freezing!!

We then went and ate at Ruby Fu's - a cool packed in Sushi Bar. But it was a happening spot. We were after somewhere a little more traditional like Red Emperor, but the Concierge at our hotel booked usw in here. In hindsight it was a great plafe to go. It was annoying that we had a booking but still had to wait ages. Sherry talked about how a lot of these waiters were probably actors. I think we both liked it here.

We then went back to the hotel room and got changed. We were heading up to the Rainbow Room, a bar at the top of the Rockafella Centre that Darryl had taken Sherry to the last time they were here. It was a long wait at the bottom, but we eventually took the elevator up to the top after about a 30 minute wait. Once up there we chilled out and drank the most expensive glasses of ordinary alcaholic beverages in the history of drinkingness. Haha - the waiter asked Sherry what she would like - Shery said 'oh what cocktails can you make?' - he replied ' I can make anything'. Hhaha - but he quickly returned saying he couldnt make everything because he didnt hae many ingredients. I can make you anything..as long as its a miller light on tap.

Sherry had a Cosmo, while i had a scotch and coke. All up it was about 60 bucks American. You're paying for the view though. Excuisate as you can see.

After our drinks we went back to our hotel. At Times Square a couple of Fire Engines pulled up. The guys in the truck loved the attention they were getting.