Today I walked about 1.5km to The Highline. Amazing! It stretches 1.7km and was old railway lines above the city for freight trains. It’s since been handed to the people of New York and a body corporate looks after it. Anyway, google it if you’re wanting to learn more. It was so cool. Got to see parts of the city I hadn’t seen.
Anyway, after the subway we ducked in to Starbucks for some free wifi to load up our instagram photos, and on the way we saw a lot of tv cameras and discovered they were filming Law and Order SVU. They’re not allowed to block the street off so they had security trying to keep the crowds away. It was like a circus. Very cool though!
Next, we decided to hire bikes to tour the park. The ‘proper’ bikes were $28 for 2 hrs! Too expensive. We’re getting knowledgable now and we decided to go with the guys on the side yelling out to us -$15 for 2 hrs. Boom!
The park was gorgeous. The pictures speak for themselves. There are so many corners and little roads. I have some video, but I’ll put it together when I’m home.
Oh, and yes, riding those bikes was hard. I am not fit. At all. I’m really really unfit! I couldn’t stop laughing. I hadn’t ridden a bike since I was 11 years old! I was a bit wobbly and looked like a total tourist. Plus we all got over taken but a 90 year old man! That made me feel awesome. I bet I can’t walk when I wake up tomorrow after all that exercise. And people do that type of exercise everyday?? Oh my gawd. Haha!
Then we walked back to flop on our beds for a while. I needed to shower. I was sweating from areas I didn’t even know I could sweat from! Plus I had massive blisters (a lady even saw me struggling and found bandaids in her bag for me!). BUT, I refused the subway trip home and preferred to walk the 12 blocks! I’m tough 😉
We decided to hit a funky diner for dinner, but we had to be there early because people line up can sometimes start down the road. It was called Ellen’s Stardust Diner. It’s a 1950s diner and the serving staff sing! It was so cool and so much fun. I have some awesome videos. They even sing to you, and one of the guys was singing in my ear – they love Aussies! Ha. I’ll put that video together when I get home.
I’m exhausted today and “deliciously tired” (as A-M says). I’ll be snoring soon. I’ve still got 1 full day and 3/4 of another left. Hmmmmm…. Not sure what we’ll do tomorrow…
Sorry this was a long post, but I wanted to record it all 🙂
Thanks for coming to my bloggy today! X
PS. I also realise the featured images on my home page aren’t working… sorry! i can’t fix it until I’m home. Plus I think my instagram badge in the sidebar went in to meltdown haha. Click on the camera under the picture of me (on the home page) if you want to follow my pictures. Thanks for perservering!
