Technical difficulty

Sadly my computer ate itself last week. Due to excessive holiday Blogging i imagine. Unfortunately this meant you all missed our last week in NYC. You didn´t hear about Anna´s experience with Julianne Moore in a bathroom, my debut on the ice-skating rink nor our visit to see the NY Knicks destroy the Orlando Hornets at Madison Square Gardens.

Like us, you will have to wait until next year for more installments. Thanks for following.

Halloween

Any excuse for a party.

If 2 million people live in Manhattan then we must have seen 80% of the residents yesterday. Most of them on our street between midnight and 02.00. VERY noisy night. There is a sign that says you get fined $500 for honking you horn on our street. That and most other rules got ignored on this day.

These guys are crazy for Halloween, no matter how old you are.

The day started with brunch at The Standard Grill. Anna shared a bathroom with Julianne Moore (not literally). The place was better than the food - we even felt inspired enough to order breakfast cocktails.

Then up onto the Highline. A quintessential New York experience; reading the FT Weekend pages, looking out over the Hudson. Carlotta doing her homework. Maths & Catalan - i was no help to her on both counts.

We ventured down onto Pier 46. The local neighbourhood had organized fair-ground style attractions, face-painting activities and that kind of thing. It was a real diverse crowd - everyone dressed up. The event was sponsored by McDonalds. How considerate of them....

There is a huge parade in the village. It goes up 6th Avenue, from Canal Street to 26th. As the coverage started on TV we thought it was only one block over, we thought we must take a look. Despite torrential rain and crowds 5 men deep - apparently it was quite a spectacle. I wouldn't know as Carlotta was on my shoulders and Anna was sheltering under a nearby umbrella.

A mad day.

A fate worse than death

We had promised the little one a visit to Toys R Us. Don't ever do that unless you reallllllly have to. And before you go, visit Ellen's Diner. Not for the food, definitely not for that. Go there to a) gather your strength for that toy shop visit and b) to remind yourself that there are in fact worse things in life than visiting Toys R Us in Times Square.

Cabaret is simply my least favourite thing in life. And this Diner was full of Broadway wannabees who hadn't yet achieved full time employment in any chorus line so doubled as waiters and waitresses whilst auditioning for the big show that would change their lives....

Enjoy (i certainly did not)

MOMA

We hurried over to the MOMA today. Oddly it is shut on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We learnt this last year when we went on Tuesday, saw that it was obviously shut, and went back on wednesday only to find that it was closed again! Madness. Don't they want our money?

The MOMA is so very worth a visit. They have an incredible collection. We were so taken by it all that we could only do two floors on this viewing and we will have to go back next week to absorb the other two floors. Though obviously not on Tuesday or Wednesday.

breakfast on 7th & Perry

Lovely morning light poured into this cafe. It had a Polish influence apparently but the only evidence we saw of this was a few of the things on the menu that were in Polish and thus unpronounceable. They turned out to be pancakes.

warship

The Intrepid

Shots from early this morn.

I'm going to miss the Hudson. But the consolation is that i get to swap it for the Mediterranean soon.