Our Hotel is very conveniently located, we're 2 blocks from Times Square, 2 blocks from Grand Central Station and surrounded by all the Broadway theatres. We also have an awesome balcony view!
We wandered down to Times Square first, and as Yumi had a hankering for seafood again we went to Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company. This is a chain of stores, all with Forrest Gump as it's hero and before we were able to get our meal we were grilled with questions about the Forrest Gump movie. To attract the waitress' attention you would flip a license plate that said 'Run Forrest Run' to 'Stop Forrest Stop'. The food was pretty average though, so we skipped dessert and set off to find the TKTS booth to see if we could see a show that night. We knew so little about any of the shows so it was like lucky dip for us and we ended up picking 'Anything Goes' - which conveniently was playing only a street away from our hotel.
The show was fun, being a musical comedy about a guy who jumped on board a cruise ship trying to follow the girl of his dreams. We had a good laugh at all the antics that happened aboard.
Yumi had a meeting with the New York Poisons Info Center the next day, so while she got a tour of their facility I decided to get my bearings and wander around the NY streets, first walking up to the Rockefeller Plaza, then about 20 blocks down 6th Avenue before walking back up 5th Avenue. I found Macy's, supposedly one of their largest stores (it took up almost an entire block), and had fun wandering around it before heading back to the hotel to meet up with Yumi again. We were both hungry by then so decided to head out and grab a burger for lunch and went to Heartland Brewery (HB) Burger. They brew their own beers at this place and we got a couple of their mini-pint glasses as souvenirs.
It'd been raining most of this day and the clouds meant there was no point going sightseeing so we decided to head up to the Rockefeller Plaza and check out the Sony Wonder Lab - though after the walk up there we discovered it was closed for maintenance that day. Instead we wandered back and ended up going inside the new Global Flagship Store of Uni Qlo - which had only recently opened and had some great opening bargains available. I picked up a nice Cashmere jumper and a couple of t-shirts, while Yumi bought a couple of merino tops. The place was massive and we lost each other a few times inside. We headed back to the hotel after that, the rain had worsened and we were pretty damp when we got back to our hotel.
The next day was sunny and clear though - making up completely for the day before and we headed up to the Rockefeller building once more this time aiming to go up to the Top of the Rock which had an impressive view of the city around it.
Including the impressive Empire State building and the Chrysler Building.
We took many many photos of the city around, see them in our picasa album here.
After that we had booked a 90 minute Midtown Harbor Cruise, so we headed off to that. We arrived a bit too late for the 2pm tour we'd originally booked, so we went on the 4pm tour instead. Now despite the sunny and clear day, it was very cold after a day of raining and we were both regretting not buying gloves and earmuffs for the harbor cruise - we got to see some beautiful sights, including the whole Manhattan skyline, the new One World Trade Centre building (still being built), Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, and of course Lady Liberty herself - but we froze somewhat in the process.
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