New York - Day 2

Saturday
What a difference a day makes. I now know how to set an alarm clock correctly. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Last night on our way back to the hotel or on the tour we say the line up for the empire state building and it was huge. The tour guide said best bet is to get there first thing in the morning so that is what we did. Out the door by 8 and yep there was no line up so straight in we went. Now for those of you that know me I am not the greatest lover of heights. That’s the reason I went out of my way to make sure I wouldn’t grow over 5ft 7. So up there on the 86th floor some 1200 feet above the ground big mucho Dave had his knees a wobbling and being a gentleman I let Jane take all the photos from right next to the fence. Very god view but I gladly headed down after 30 mins or so to continue with the tour.
The rest of the day was spent looking for the Ed Sullivan Theatre (where David Letterman does the Late Show), the Soup Kitchen which was home to the soup Nazi on Seinfeld plus a pretty cool 2 hour tour through the mean streets of Harlem. Well have I been greatly misinformed about that place. Was a pretty nice area, home to Columbia University & the tomb of Ulysses S Grant (America’s 18th president) nothing like the gangsta movies you see or the hood that the news channels always show you.
One thing I can’t find anywhere in the states are internet cafes. Heaps of places have free wi-fi but you need your own laptop to connect to their internet. So Jane and I went to Macy’s (the biggest dept store in the world) and bought a compact laptop to use for the rest of the trip. Only cost $600 and it is tiny so it won’t take up any room and we can update the blog a lot easier.
Tomorrow it’s off to Niagara Falls (Canadian side) to catch up with Matt & Rookie who are driving down from Montreal for a visit.
Stay tuned....