No Trouble in Little China

Started our day in China Town. A very busy area of New York, with good shops and lots of interesting places to eat...although there was a dinstinct smell of wet dog in the air yesterday, which cut our visit a little short.
China town like Greenwich, doesn't follow the same city layout as uptown Manhattan, so is a little more difficult to navigate. But after a little walking around we managed to find Bret and Jemaine's apartment from Flight of the Conchords.

Bret and Jemaine's Apartment

Had lunch at the "five points" (which is now known as Columbus Park), whilst watching a basketball game. We then headed over to SoHo for some shopping and some ice cold beers.

Arran

A Day at the Museum

Went to the American Museum of Natural History today. It has a suggested entrance fee of $19, but you can grit your teeth and pay what you wish...so we did.
Took around 4 hours to see most of it, with the exception of a few closed exhibits. These were closed due to a special baquet for the Joint Chiefs of Staff later that evening. Not sure we should of overheard that.

Cheetahs in the African Savanna exhibition

The museum is well worth a visit and some of the exhibitions are exceptional.

Arran

Messing around on the river!

When the weather is fine then you know it's a sign...for messing about on the river!

The weather was fit fine (for the Aberdonian audience) on Tuesday, so we decided to take a row boat out on Central Park Lake.  Arran did most of the rowing - it was all I could to do to stay steady at some points (nearly fell out, getting into the boat!), but once I found my sea legs I paddled for a bit. Great way to see more of the Park; would definitely recommend it and at $12 it’s an absolute steal for an hour’s worth of entertainment!

Emily on Central Park Lake

Just before our boat ride, we settled down for some lunch under a tree. A word of warning for anyone looking to visit the Park in the autumn (actually, this could apply to any autumnal park), don’t sit under a tree...within seconds of us getting settled we heard a huge crashing noise. A massive football sized, acorn type thing, fell from the tree, inches from our heads. We nearly got taken out! It was honestly about the size of Arran’s head. We promptly moved from that spot and moved closer to the centre of the lawn with all the wise local New Yorkers. Shortly afterwards another mammoth acorn fell from the tree!

Can anyone tell us what the hell this is?

Finished our afternoon in the sun with some lovely cold beers in the Boathouse in the Park – so far, it’s the cheapest beer in town at $3.25!

Emily

New York City Marathon

Went down to Central Park today to watch some of the 46,000 runners of the New York City Marathon complete their ordeal of 26.2 miles through the five boroughs of New York.

Haven't seen so many sweaty americans struggling to breathe, since I was in McDonalds yesterday.

Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won in a record breaking time claiming a cool $130,000.

Arran