New York Blog - Weblinks

Hi!
As I wrote the blog I should have provided links to the places we visited for your information! Here are some - more to follow!

The Hotel Mela                      http://www.hotelmela.com/

Roosevelt Island                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island

Central Park                          http://www.centralpark.com/

Times Square                        http://www.timessquarenyc.org/

Broadway Theatre                http://www.broadway.com/

Planet Hollywood                  http://www.planethollywoodintl.com/locations_newyork.php

New York Pass                      http://www.newyorkpass.com/

The Flatiron Building             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_Building_(Atlanta)

Battery Park                           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Park

New York Pretzels                 http://www.nypretzel.com/

Street Vendors                      http://newyorkstreetfood.com/

Statue of Liberty                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

Ground Zero                          www.groundzeromuseum.org

The Skyscraper Museum     http://www.skyscraper.org/home.htm

Last Day! Oh no!

So, here we are.....the last day of our trip! We got home eventually! It was a long time....up early in the morning, out to enjoy the last day and then transfer to the airport. Then we had to get through customs, get our boarding passes and then visit - duty free! The vote was three to two so we lost!
Then it was food time! Linda and Lauren went for pizza while Andrew and Kelsey decided that at least once they should go McDonalds! Tip for future: don't order a milk shake without asking for it cream free! Totally spoilt by a cream top to it!
Then it was waiting....and we got on the plane at around 9.30pm. We were a little late in taking off but were air bound by 10.30! Night flight...so have to try to sleep. Sleeping is never easy in a plane! We also gained 5 hours so we touched down at 9.30am at Heathrow! Then another wait for the flight to Aberdeen! More customs and security! Then more waiting for the plane!
I think this is the worst we have felt when getting home with jet lag! We got home around 4pm and we basically went to bed for 4 or 5 hours! Then we were up for something to eat and then back to bed! Another 12 hours plus and we were back up! Still not quite compus mentus but getting there! I will be adding more to my blog very soon! I will sum up the trip, New York and some do's and dont's for going to NYC,
Ted

Me on the News! I'm on the TV!

Checking my flight reservations!

'Oi! Privacy please!'

Sprucing up for the flight!

Not quite the view we hoped for!

Breakfast view in Bryant Park! Empire State in the background!


New York Public Library. I tried to get a copy of 'Paddington' but they did not have one! Tut!

Sitting relaxing at Grand Central Station! You must sit a lot as there are no trains!

My last indulgence! New York cheese cake!

Checking my portfolio before we go! Always best to be on top of things!

Almost There

Well, here we are back at the hotel! Bags packed and waiting for our transfer. We checked out at noon but our bags are still here.

Today:
1. Pack
2. Out for breakfast! Nice simple breakfast from a stall in Bryant Park! Lovely sitting outside and enjoying our last breakfast aldente!
3. Quick visit to the LIBRARY! Lovely old building with a great sense of history and oppulence! Lauren quite impressed!
4. Stroll to Grand Central Station! Still saw NO trains! But a vast, cavernous building that at peak times must just buzz with commotion! Wandered about and found the 'whispering arches' Linda wanted to find! We then left and came back to the hotel to finish packing and have a shower!
5. Walk round Times Square! Lauren and Kelsey wanted some last minute shopping! Kelsey had to get her Levi jeans! Lauren eventually decided to buy something! Andrew got some.....ties! How original!
6. Fossil - To get some shopping for Mark! The staff are very friendly!
7. Lunch in a Times square diner and then a quick visit to Footlocker! Lauren was not going to let Andrew buy tainers - as he was not 20 and would not be swaggering around Turriff with his jeans tucked into his trainers! Her relief was so noticeable when they did not have his size! Kelsey was VERY keen - she thought we could share! Would they have to hop everywhere? One shoe each seems silly to me!
8. Now at hotel waiting for transfer bus!

I will sum up my trip and my thoughts once I get home! What a place! Every bear should visit here once!

Thanks for readig!

Ted

Times Square! Mounted Police Alert!

Last night in Times Square! It is very busy as ever! But very muggy! Heavy rain NOT far away as we would discover!

Thanks to the very friendly mounted policeman for posing with me for my photo!

I'm Singing in the Rain....

Well, here's my last evening blog from the Hotel Mela! Tomorrow is our last day! We need to check out by 12 noon but are not pocked up until 4.30pm to go to the airport!

Tonight the biggies had a stroll round Bryant Park before going back to get the other! They then headed to Times Square to do some touristy shopping! List for tomorrow: Ties!

The bad bit of the evening was ANOTHER visit to ETERNAL 21! sorry, Forever 21! However, this was the Times Square shop....not 5th Avenue! So that would be ok! WRONG, they are nothing but consistent! Only 4 floors this time...but just as few changing rooms and as many people trying to get in to them! Andrew and I walked round the shop as often as we could without seeming a little.....what's the word.....? Then we went or a walk round Times Square! That would help! No! Back we o and still no sign...despite another walk round all floors! So up to the entrance area again! This place should have a HEALTH WARNING posted outside and M&S style seatsvat the door for husbands, fathers, boy friends or anyone of the male gender (unless you are Gok Wan!) to while away the hours! Space invaders or hand held games! Or a system like public baths where shoppers are given a coloured band are old when they need to be out of the shop!

Anyway, eventually....after spring was beginning to show signs, did they appear again! Now it was off to the tourist shop and Hershey's! I don't know why but that always makes me think of the old, OLD programme that used to be on TV when I was young, TinTin or even 'The Flashing Blade'!

Anyway, on the way we were set a challenge! A mounted policeman was standing in Times Square near the TKTS booth! Linda dared us both to go and ask if we could get a photo of me ON the police horse! They do this thinking we won't do it! So, what the hell, it's the last night and they can deport me if necessary! We went up and explained about my blog and the policeman never batted an eyelid when he said he'd hold me! I could t o on the horse as he may, MAY, bolt off if a stranger is on him! So, not wishing to argue Andrew said that was fine and I got a photo with one of NYC's finest! A nice way to end the holiday!

Then on leaving the touristy shop it was PELTING it down! It was bucketing! It was reining very hard! Lightning flashed above and we made our way to the diner we were oing to for tea via he hotel to drop off the shopping! We had a lovely meal in the Red Draon Diner and even the two others enjoyed it!

Then it was back to pack and get ready for tomorrow!

I will blog tomorrow Shen I can! I just want to thank everyone fr taking the time to read my ramblings and look at my photos! I've had blast!

New York, New York - so good they named it twice! Perhaps I should change my name to Turra Ted, Turra Ted!

Anyway, more tomorrow if I can!

Thanks

Ted!!

Monday' Photos so far!

1. I'm expanding my knowledge at the Public Library! Will it rain? Will it freeze over? ( I wish!) do they have a good bear section? The classics.....Winnie the Pooh? Paddington? Bears and lovers?? Bear Expectations? Moby Bear? Bear Grit? A tale of two bears?


2. Grand Central Station (Above)
It's huge! But not ONE train in sight! Reminds me a bit on British Rail?
3. Barbie Foozeball!
'Come on ye Barbies!' If the Dons looked a bit more like this they might get more spectators!,

4. Time for CAKE! Any time is cake time! Who cares if it's a girly colour! Yum!

Silly me! I forgot getting lost!,

I. Kelsey, Andrew and I got 'way layed' in Grand Central!

II. L and K instead on going back to the hotel before going to the diner or breakfast! Linda and Andrew went and got a table, at the same place we were at the other night, as we waited for them to appear! Come out of the hotel, go to the end of the block, cross 6th Avenue and there we are! So, we waited, waited, waited AND waited! The waitress got fed up waiting and began to think we were just there for the free glass of iced water and there was not really our of us! Then when I left 'To go look for them' I could see her thinking that Linda will get up next and we will have had a nice cool drink fir nothing!

However, I went back to the hotel, to to the 6th and no one there! I went back to the diner and fully expected them to be there! No! Nothing! I went again and went the opposite direction and found them sauntering back down the street looking at me as if it was MY fault!

Anyway, we got breakfast and it was lovely! Note to Celebrations and Baxters of Speyside! When you order pancakes here you get THREE large pancakes and not just one! If L and K had realised then they ay well have shared!

Good times!