Justine and Dylan’s Travel Blog

Next stop was New York. Time for some shopping, walking around and as turned out, some even chillier weather.

First day it was -5 degrees Celcius and snowing pretty hard. Pretty cool for those of us who still get excited about walking through snow (read: Justine).

Second day it was much warmer (ie just above zero degrees)… but that just meant that the snow turned to rain. Doh. From Battery Park we could hardly see the Statue of Liberty and most of the tops of skyscrapers were hidden in clouds. Shows indoors (Spamalot musical and a comedy show at Carolines on Broadway) during these two days made up for the weather and come highly recommended (although if you know Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail a lot of the jokes in Spamalot are going to sound familiar). Ice cream from the Cold Stone Creamery… well, let’s just say we ate it inside.

And then there was the third day… Perfectly clear day, sun, etc. Couldn’t have asked for a better (Valentine’s!) Day. Walked around Central Park and finished it off looking at the sun set over Manhattan from the Rockefeller Center (aka Top of the Rock). This is incidentally the building during the construction of which the famous picture was taken of the construction workers eating lunch on a steel beam tens of stories above the ground (just do a Google image search for “construction workers rockefeller” and you’ll see what I’m talking about).

Highlight of the last day before we flew out was definitely a shop called Crumbs which makes cupcakes. Apparently they started the “cupcake rage” a few years ago. Whatever, but I have to admit that it’s the best cupcake I’ve ever had so they’re probably right.