Empire State Building

On top of the world we were ..... after whizzing up to the top of the Empire State Building in a super fast lift, though the queues put a bit of a brake on the action.

Once up on the top we were fortunate to have good weather so the views were really good, and it was less crowded than I had expected after seeing all of the queues, we spent quite a bit of time checking out all of the landmarks.

After that we had a bit of lunch, with a bit of help from me Suri resisted popping into the biggest store in the world - according to Macys.

We then headed south towards Little Italy and China Town but eventually ran out of steam as it had been a long day and many miles walked - so Suri told me, though she could not prove it as she had left her pedo back at Joan's place.

During the day we checked out some of the wonderful parks that Manhattan has to offer- Bryant Park - Union Park - Manhattan Square and others where we saw amongst other things - a photo shoot of some unknown model - at least we saw her as the previous day we just missed seeing Harrison Ford on his photo shoot - still she was better looking than Harrison - oh and I decided not to challenge anybody at the chess tables.

We returned to Midland Park somewhat knackered -but Joan as always had some lovely food ready for us - what a great host she is.