We have arrived!

Hi all

Well, despite all my misgivings, we DID manage to make our connection in Los Angeles (LA) successfully - despite an hour at passport control & only just under 3 hours to disembark from Qantas, do customs, collect bags & get to Terminal 4 for our transfer to American Airlines for our onward flight from LA to New York City (NYC).

 So! Here we are in the Big Apple.

We had a BIG night last night. Did the Top of the Rock - observation deck at the top of the Rockefeller Centre with views over NYC.

And had a late supper (around midnight) at Katz - as recommended by the Rebbechis. And made several muddles on the Metro including the last trip back to the hotel when we managed to overshoot our stop at 72nd Street and watched in awe as the train whooshed past several stations to finally deposit us at 125th St (must have been an Express! Doh!)? My Friend was not very happy...

This morning, despite only a few hours sleep, we walked to Central Park which is only a few blocks away.

It was lovely & quiet with just a few other walkers, some joggers & cyclists. Very pretty. Lovely in the early morning light. And the squirrels were cute!

For the rest of the morning, I walked my feet off around The iconic NYC store Macy's (which is really like our Myers) & 5th Avenue. My Friend stayed in bed unwell due to (guess from the photo below ...):

He fortunately rallied sufficiently to stagger out to the Yankee Stadium to watch the baseball: New York Yankees Vs Seattle Mariners. We had great seats & it was fun!











After a short pit-stop back at the hotel for My Friend to recover, we set off for Broadway. Boy, what a night!

Fantastic: we had tickets to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. This production won 7 Logies & you could see why. Not a dry eye in the house. And the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is an old-style theatre complete with chandeliers. The whole thing was an amazing experience: to be there with a packed house of theatre-loving New Yorkers. Wow!

We finished up at Sardi's Bar: martini for me, water for My Friend. Another late night, well after midnight. But flawless navigation on The Metro tonight!