New York, New York.....finally!!!

This morning we were booked on a 7.00am flight direct to New York. So we packed the room up, left our room keys in the room and waited for Doc to pick us up. I read my emails while we waited, and found out that our flight had been cancelled, and we were rebooked on. Flight to Atlanta, then onto New York. Grrrr. Doc picked us up and took us to the airport. With the issues of earlier flights, I wasn't going to risk another stressful delay!

The lady at Delta tried to talk us into a standby flight, but we chose to stick to the scheduled flights. Our luggage was booked in and boarding passes given. It was then we realised that they had placed the four of us in separate rows. That wasn't going to happen! But we were told that the ticket agent at the gate could fix it, so it was off to Sonic for breakfast. My first ever breakfast burrito, and it was yummy!!

We returned to the airport after breakfast. After ignoring the obvious, it was time for goodbyes. Big hugs all round and tears. We approached the security check in, and I cried again when I told the guy South Carolina was too nice to leave. And again when we turned around to wave final goodbyes. And again when the plane took off. We were at the back of the plane again, but at least we were together. It was a quick flight to Atlanta, and this time, having been there before. This time I grabbed a couple of key rings to commemorate having been to Atlanta Georgia. That takes my keying collection up to....about 25....

We reallocated our seats (again, the back of the plane) and took off for New York. After a couple of hours we got our first glimpse of the Big Apple. We landed at La Guardia...and even I was beginning to wonder if we were landing on water!! It was freaky, but the runway eventually showed up out of the window!

We collected our baggage, pleased to see that it arrived on the same plane as us, and went out to meet our driver. We booked a car to the apartment we are staying in, because there is no way in hell I'm driving in New York! We got picked up, and drove to Manhattan. We got our first hazy glimpse of the Empire State Building. We picked up the keys as directed and arrived at our building. It's in what's known as Alphabet City. What we didn't know was that its on the 4th floor, and there's no elevator!! So we dragged 4 23 kg bags upstairs!!!

The apartment is really cute. It's quite tiny, but there is a separate room for the girls and us. For the first time in 3 weeks, we aren't all in the same room! We settled in and headed out to explore our surroundings and get some dinner. We ended up getting Subway and a Baskin Robbins ice cream for desert. It's quite hot at the moment, it was 95F when we arrived! We did some shopping and came back for the night. 

The area where we are is a bit run down but there are little public gardens dotted around which gives some break from the buildings.

Tomorrow we will go a little further afield. There's a fire station down the road that we hope to have a look at. And Thursday is the 911 memorial and a night harbour lights cruise. Will update the blog daily from here on in, as there's only a week left before we return home, and this IS New York!!