Uninvisible

We got up, went for breakfast then went down to Urban Outfitters in the lower east side for a quick shopping trip before going back to the hotel. Delise was leaving this morning so we went to get her case and took her to the subway station so she could go to the airport. It was great to have her there for the weekend, and sad that she had to leave so early, but no money in NYC isn’t a good thing!!

After we saw her off we did some shopping on Union Square and then headed up to Bloomingdales. After that we went to serendipity where I ordered a frozen hot chocolate and a chocolate sunday. They came to the table and were HUGE!!! I could have shared just one of them with someone and still been full, but no, greedy Stevie had 2 to himself!

We went to Grand Central Station and hopped on the subway down to Soho. We had a wander around the Bleeker Street area, worked our way (and shopped our way) through Soho, China Town, and stopped for lunch at a cute Italian in little Italy, where he gave us free wine, free coffee and some top chat!

Day 2! We got up nice and early (in fact me and the Sarah’s were awake from 5am!!!), we were ready so we left Delise sleeping and went out for a giant breakfast of pancakes, sausage, eggs, hash browns and lotsa syrup!

After breakfast we went for a walk around Union Square while Delise was getting ready then went back to meet her so we could head off on our first day of adventures.

We hopped on the subway and went down to Wall Street to start on our sightseeing. We stopped by the NY stock exchange, the trump building, the bronze bull and some shops on the way to Battery Park City. Down there we took the Statten Island Ferry to get a closer (and free) look at the Statue of Liberty without having to wait in line and pay to go to Liberty Island.

After that we headed up to Century 21 and did some serious shopping, before heading over to pier 17 to check out the water, and grab a beer. Then we went for a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge (well, only a 3rd of the way over, its LONG!) before heading back to the hotel to get ready and go out for dinner.

We wandered the Union Square area for ages trying to find somewhere to eat before settling on a bar/grill type place to get simple dinner. We ordered burgers and when the waiter brought it over we got totally the wrong stuff! I ordered a cheese/avocado burger (which I got), Nicol ordered a Mexican burger and got the same burger as me, Delise ordered a Sliders Sampler and got a plain burger!! It was OK though cause the waiter was HOT (a taster according to Nicol) so we forgave him and went back to staring at him!

And that was our first full day!