New York City: Part 2

We had two days left in New York. The first of the them had the best weather. It was roasting! We definitely picked the best day to go up the Empire State building as we had really clear views once we finally got to the top! We had to queue for about 2 hours starting outside the main entrance, then through a series of rooms and a couple of different lifts. It really was worth it though. The view from there is perfect. We took a few pictures and checked out the view from each angle before heading back down. Thankfully a lot less queueing on the way down!!


We went straight to the Hard Rock Cafe on Times Square for lunch. Food was great and not as expensive as we expected. The memorabilia was pretty interesting too..they even had The Beatles' suits and some of their instruments.

After our lunch we went for a walk to check out some other famous landmarks. First we went to Grand Central which was really impressive, and right next to that is The Chrysler building. We then walked up Madison Avenue to Central Park. After checking out a few shops we got the Subway back to our train for New Jersey.

Our last day was another wet one. It wasn't too bad when we left but we were visiting the Museum of Natural History anyway! There was a lot to see so we picked out the most interesting sounding exhibits...The dinosaurs which were brilliant, and also the mammals which was pretty good too. We wanted to see Central Park in the day so we walked though there after the museum. By then it was raining pretty heavily and luckily we had packed waterproofs..

...unlike the first day when we got soaked! We only had a short walk through and then wandered back toward Times Square, stopping for some food in a pretty expensive place called Lindy's..the same place we went for a beer the first night actually. The food was good enough anyway. We had a last walk through Times Square back to the station on 33rd.

Yesterday we left the hotel at about mid day...this is where we had been parked all 4 days.. The traffic was insane. We had to pass through a few tolls, but it was a Saturday and the weather was good, so I guess a lot of people travel south of the City for the weekend. We went to the cinema and for some food at the cheesecake factory (a restaurant chain). We only stayed one night at the RV park, just east of Philadelphia.

Today we left early to go to our next park, via Philadelphia. It was lucky we left early because the traffic was even worse near the city because of a massive storm which we got caught in. I think there must have been a lot of flash floods as loads of roads were closed off with chunks of pavement and tree branches all over the place. We sat in a queue for a couple of hours before deciding to exit and find a new route. We have no idea if this was quicker...but it was better than sitting in a queue!! We got some supplies and found our park which is pretty nice. We'll probably stay for 3 nights or so.

We've got a few days to fill in before our next gig which is Blink 182 in Hershey on the 12th, not far from here. We'll not do much as we spent quite a lot on the New York visit!