Day 47 Saturday 4th October, New York City

Woke up to find it raining so we decided to stay dry and indoors.  We had a quiet time catching up with emails, reading, rearranged packing and a little house keeping etc.

Around lunch time it started to clear up so we decided to give it a go and took the ferry over to WFC World Financial Centre (the only one that runs on the weekend) and then started walking towards “uptown”.

New York skyscrapers disappear into the clouds as we reach the ferry terminal

Interesting way to solve parking problems.  Stack and rack them.

This took us through the areas of Tribeca and then up West Broadway through SOHO, where Maritta couldn’t resist some shopping, actually, to be fair we needed an extra suitcase, which has now been road tested through the streets of New York and appears to have passed.

Pick your own herbs in the community garden in Soho.

From here we went through Washington Square, then Union Square, through the University district and then through the Flat Iron District.

Famous odd shaped building in the "Flat Iron District" in which Cary Grant was a lift operator
before hitting the big time.

Whilst near here we found a huge Halloween and Costume Store and Maritta was inside for so long I thought it had swallowed her, and apparently it nearly did as at one point she couldn’t find the door.

More walking and we found ourselves outside the Empire State building so took the opportunity to visit. We decided to spare no expense and pay for the express ticket which was money well spent as it means you bypass all the queues and get priority treatment up to the 84^th floor Observation Deck. From here it was still crowded but not too bad up to the 102nd floor,

View from the 84th floor of the Empire State Building

Lights of Times Square from floor 102 (1250 feet in the air)

Another view from ESB.

The view is spectacular and we seem to have timed it perfectly because it was still light on the 84^th floor and then dark with all the lights of the city by the time we got to the top on the 102nd floor..

The photo's really don't do the view justice - it is amazing!

After finding our way back out again we caught a cab back to the Pier for the ferry home, the 4 or so miles we had walked today was quite enough..

(Our apologies for some of the photo's today, we only had our phone)

Not sure why you need 2 bathrooms when there is only one bedroom and at $2.52M it makes Melbourne property prices almost fade into insignificance.