Hot Child in the City...

It was incredibly hot on the weekend! About 90 degrees farenheight which is like 32 celcius. But after having such a cold snowy winter, and we also had a bit of rain last week, the heat surprised me! One of the aussie girls that flew over with me, Laura, flew in from Seattle for the weekend. I was a bit worried I would have to do some of the things I'd already done once or twice before, but we ended up doing all new things which was great! Saturday, after breakfast in Central Park, we headed downtown, to Battery Park at the very tip of the island, and boarded a very rocky ferry to Liberty Island (home of the Statue of Liberty, duh! :P). The ferry ride was awful because everyone was all squashed in and I felt sea sick. But, as with the Staten Island ferry last weekend, the view was magnificent. I would ride the ferry all the time just to see the view of downtown and the New York skyline. There wasn't really anything to do on Liberty Island but see the statue, haha, but it was good to see it up close and it was relatively cheap to get across on the ferry ($12). When we went, you weren't allowed to walk up inside of her, but we got close enough.
After we got back, we went to 5th avenue, because Laura was thinking of going up the top of Rockerfeller Centre (is about same height as Empire State Building) but she decided she didn't have enough money once we go there. Rockerfeller is the building with the famous gold statue out front, and all the flags. Theyhave ice skating in the winter. We couldn't find the Aussie flag, but at a store nearby they were flying the Australian and New Zealand flags for ANZAC day, whch was nice because it wasn't even an Aussie store (maybe NZ, but I dont know...it was called Cole Haan).
Then we had dinner and lined up at TKTS which is where you get cheap Broadway tickets. Most are about 50% off, so we got tickets for Chicago which still ended up being $70!! But I was so excited to see a show! It was a beautiful old theatre, and the show was great but not what I expected. It was very minimalistic so they only had one costume each, only props were chairs, no backgrounds, little dancing. Great show but if I'd known it was like that I wouldn't have paid so much! Next I want to see Lion King and Wicked - something with more pizzaz, bigger better costumes and backgrounds and dancing.

Sunday was just as hot and sweaty! I went into the city with the girls from my area (while Laura visited a museum) as we were planning on having a picnic in central park. We walked about 30 blocks from Grand Central up to the Great Lawn which is a part of the park that has a huge area for playing sports/sunbathing/picnicing etc. There was so many people it was unbelievable! We had been to an organic food market and gotten fresh fruit and yummy salads to eat - plus some famous yummy cupcakes. It was lovely just laying in the sun, catching up and being relaxed.
That night we had a surprise party for Alissa, as her birthday was on the tuesday. We had a BBQ and all the aussies were there, so it was a nice catch up, and we had dinner and played a boardgame.

Another wonderful week in the city and with my friends - off to D.C this weekend! xxx