well i have to say from the start I'm sorry for not having any pictures of my time in New York, but I forgot to get the camera out the first day and then i found the battery's need to be replaced (that's what you get when you play with it alot and drain them). Right now I'm on the bus so later tonight i will be uploading what pictures I did take for you all to see, until then enjoy the blog...
We started really early again this morning (I swear nearly every morning is a early one in new york) as we had to get a boat at 9.
So we were up bright and early at about 6 and headed for somewhere to grab something to eat. After eating a very nice meal of bacon and eggs we headed for the subway, like all subways this was very busy at this time, but we where there first stop so we got seats and where fine. After a 30 min or so bus ride we then walked through battery park (not the place where battery's where invented like my grandad said), and found the ferry place to take us across to lady liberty herself. The people at the ferry where very nice and moved us to the front of the line (as my grandma says nothing like using the 'blind card').
So got over to the island, it was a nice ride very hot but a light breeze made it live able. We got off the boat and as we were getting off they men said o don't worry about lining up just come up here and sit on the bench (strike two for the blind women). As we walked up heading for the statue, we got the voice tour thingies to listen to while we got in line to go inside the statue. After about 45mins waiting we made it inside and i have to say it was amazing, however we only where able to make it to basically where the statue itself starts as the rest of the way was closed off, but you could look up and see inside it which was cool.
Then after coming back down and having a nice walk round the island we headed back for the ferry, and back to the hotel as by now it was really time for a cold shower and a few hours relaxing. As we came up to the ferry they had already started to load people on, so we did as the guy head send and just walked up, as he spotted us he told the whole line to start and let us through, as we pasted him i said 'you really love this don’t you' he said 'yup, i love having the control...sometimes i just make them stop and move back for the fun of it'.
The trip back was fine and i just longed for the hotel room, which when we all got back felt so good just to have a shower and lie down for a while, ready for the real event of the day...
As the evening came around we yet again met up with my grandparents friend (she was so kind and basically worked out everything for us to do which was great) and headed for dinner. This was the only evening that we had a nice quite fancy meal (i even put on a shirt (no i hadn’t been topless the whole time...i mean a nice shirt)), it was a 4 course meal and was very nice indeed. After this it was time for the days main event, to go see the musical 'Hair', it was quite possible nearly my fav. Musical of all time (second to the rocky horror picture show), it was so cool to see basically what it was like in the 60's and if you ever get the chance to see it you really should. It really made for a great evening, and is a very interactive musical in the sense that the people come down from the stage and come and do stuff to the people....like give out flowers and kiss them and well i will not give it all away, you will just have to see it!
After it ended we headed back to the hotel for the last night’s sleep before we head back to Boston.
It wasn't really like that in the 60's Zac, I know, I was there (some of the time)
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