New York #Day37

Another amazing day today! 

We mastered the Metro this morning. Just a 3 minute walk from our Hotel and a really easy system all the way downtown to SouthFerry to meet up with Alysha and Georgia for their last day in NY. 

 

It was a stunning clear 30 degrees today, so we made the most of the clear skies by catchinh the free Staten Island ferry that took us across to the island to get a view of the Statue of Liberty!  

    

You get off at the other end and then we waited half an hour to get back on the ferry to return to Manhattan. 

Not being tourist at all.... 

 

On the return we had the most incredible view of the skyline! Not bad for a free ride. 

    

 

Once back we walked up to Brooklyn Bridge.

  

NY City Hall: 

 

Brooklyn Bridge: 

       

We headed back on the Metro about a 30 minute ride Uptown to our hotel to get changed before meeting a large group of our Contiki friends for dinner at Applebee's.

 

After dinner half of us went to the Empire State Building to see the city sparkling at night. 

 

It was about an hours wait in queues, even at 11pm but was completely worth it for the view! 

We didn't go all the way to the top (102 floors) but still got an incredible viewpoint from 86 floors. 

     

 

  

New York #Day36

First full day to explore New York!

We changed hotels this morning in the Upper West Side. It was such a beautiful day so we headed to Central Park to meet up with our friends Alysha and Georgia. We walked everywhere!       

We hired a row boat and paddled around the lake for an hour which was so much fun and sooo pretty. 

      

 

 

 

We headed back downtown 

 

 

 

We went to the Rockerfeller Center to go to the 'Top of the Rock' viewdeck! It is a better view of NYC then the Empire State Building! 

   

67 fooors up! 

         

We quickly raced back to our hotel to get changed to head back to Broadway as Alysha and I were seeing the Broadway show Anastasia!! 

  

3 of our other friends payed double the price we did and we managed to get better seats then them!! 

 

The show was incredible! I had goosebumps the entire time. 

 

Another snap in Times Square and a gyro from a street vendor for dinner 

 

Such an amazing day. 

New York #Day35

Official last day with our Contiki Family!!  

We left Washington DC this morning for NYC! 

We stopped at Philadelphia along the way for a 3 hour lunch break. 

 

 

We went to a huge food market to enjoy some famous Phillychesse steak sandwhiches! 

 

We arrived in New York City at about 5pm, getting off our bus for the very last time to go our separate ways.

We drove a huge 9,500kms from LA to NYC.  

We headed to Times Square to meet up with the girls for dinner-We had a view of Times Square at the restaurant. Was so amazing! 

Pinching ourselves that we are here!   

 

(Me, Dan, Ellie, Lily, Sophie.G, Sophie.J) 

 

After dinner we went to a Karaoke bar to meet up with the rest of the Contiki! We sang songs and said our final goodbyes. Was very bitter sweet.