Well when I last left you I was going to try to go back to sleep. Sadly I was not successful in that task
So it was a very long exhausting day having been up since 1am, but we had quite a bit to do that day so I just had to put up with it! Today was my day, well partly my day, it was my shopping day!
So we started with breakfast downstairs in the hotel restaurant. We had the same as the other morning, omelette and waffles and fruit.
From breakfast we went to Top of the Rock. We wanted to be there on opening to avoid any queues. There were only 4 other people there when we arrived but whilst we were at the top more started filtering up. When we got into the first lift I was already starting to have a little panic attack
I am not a fan of heights and was really nervous about the lift ride up there. Anyway so we were in the lift by ourselves and I said to the guy, I'm really nervous, is it a long ride, how long does it take. He said "Just a couple of seconds mam, you are only going to the 2nd floor
" Ok I felt like a bit of an idiot at this point
So I made it up to the top, it was absolutely amazing, the view was awesome. Here are some pictures from the top.
It was a little smoggy as you can see but still just amazing views.
From there we had to stop at Magnolia Bakery again after the disaster the day before losing the whole box
Managed to keep this box of cupcakes intact and here they are.
After the TOTR and Magnolia we went back to the hotel. Today was my shopping day and with shops opening at 10am (so we thought) we would head off in about an hour. So at about 10am we left the hotel, on 7th and went straight up 47th to Madison Ave. Plan was to go down Madison to the Apple Store, then up 5th back to the hotel. So we were walking down Madison and the shops all seemed to be closed
We didn't think shops in NY would be closed on a Sunday but maybe we were wrong. Got to the Coach store and it was closed too
So we just went to the Apple Store. It was absolutely packed, unbelieveable. I asked them why all of the shops were closed and they had no idea (it cracks us up how nobody ever knows anything in the US, other than just what is in front of them or directly involves them
). So when we had finished there we headed up to Tiffanys, oh I love this store and I was so excited to finally see Tiffany & Co in NY. Of course it wasn't open and neither was the Gucci store next door. So we popped into Trump Tower next door and asked them when the shops open. They told us 12pm, so we went upstairs to Starbucks for a coffee.
We then walked back to Coach and it was open
Popped in there and got a handbag and then back we went to Tiffany and Co.
It opened just after we got there and OMG, it is 6 stories. 6 stories of Tiffany, I was in heaven. Yes i did make a couple of purchases and off we went. We then wandered the back up 5th Avenue, popping in and out of different stores and dropped our bags back at the hotel.
We then decided to go on the NY Waterways 90 minute harbour cruise.
There is a free bus that they have that picks up two streets back from our hotel so we caught that and off we went. It was absolutely amazing. Our guide was awesome and the actual boat and our guide were there when that plane crash landed in the Hudson and they were first on the scene. Our guide was telling us about "Sully" the captain of that flight as he was on our boat.
Brooklyn Bridge
Lower Manhattan Skyline
No description necessary
Anyway we really loved the cruise and after it was over, we headed back to the hotel on the free bus. It was about 5.45pm and we were absolutely exhausted so we decided to go back to the hotel and have room service for dinner and an early night.