NEW YORK - DAY 3

My legs were hurting so much by the morning of day 3! I'm used to doing a lot of exercise but having 12 hour days, walking over 8 miles a day in very high heat was something else! We decided to go and have breakfast in Applejacks on Broadway. I opted for the typical American breakfast of pancakes and syrup! Yuuum! After breakfast we caught the Subway down to the financial district and down to the World Trade center memorial. We didn't realise that we had to buy tickets, we were lucky though because they give out a certain amount of tickets a day and we were able to get these. However we got them at around 12pm and had to wait in till 3pm to actually go in to see the fountains. While we waited we headed over to the Brooklyn Bridge and walked over the bridge in to Brooklyn. The weather was beautiful so the views of Manhattan behind us were spectacular! 

After our lovely walk over the bridge we headed in to Brooklyn for some lunch. I wanted to eat at Grimaldi's but the line was so long and we didn't have much time as we had to be back for the World Trade Center memorial fountains. In the end we had to grab a yellow cab and eat after we visited the site. The security to get in to the memorial was incredibly rigorous and totally understandable. When we got in to the memorial it was a place of calm compared to the constant race that is New York. Everyone was very quiet just looking in to the fountains and reading the names on the sides. The NYPD and Fire service were all there both for security and to answer the many questions of the tourist. The fact that over 3,000 people were killed during this attack in NYC is unbelievable. Why? Well we'll never know why someone would plan such a thing, I guess we can only ask, How are we going to protect the people from terrorist attacks in the future. Close to the site were the two new freedom towers they are building. One of them has already past the hight of the Empire State and is the tallest building in NYC and it hasn't even finished being built yet! 

After our time remembering those from 9\11 we headed for some lunch. We eventually found a little place close to the financial district that was populated with the locals so we guessed it was good before we even received our food! Once we finished our lovely, and much needed, lunch (at around 4:30pm!) we caught another Subway and made our way to SOHO. I have to say that SOHO was one of my favorite things about our trip to NYC. When we got out of the subway and in to SOHO square the calmness of the place and the lack of crowds and noise was noticeable and appreciated! It was a nice little escape from the 24hour party that is the Big Apple! The houses were hidden behind loads of trees, there was (which I thought was awesome) a caged basketball park just off the street that you see in films! There were nice little cafes and restaurants also there were small shops that we don't have in Wales like the jewelry shop Alex and Ani where I bought two new bracelets. All the bracelets have been made from recycled metal and most bracelets have a specific meaning. I bought a bracelet with a shark finn and another with an elephant. The elephant represented - Luck | Inspiration | Loyalty and the Shark Finn - Stability | Protection | Courage. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures in SOHO probably because I was too busy just taking all of it in (I loved it!) and possibly because we shopped . . . a lot! I think I bought over half of the Victoria's Secret LOVE shop! I also bought some white Converse from an actual Converse shop (which was awesome!) and we bought a couple of things from Lacoste and Levis also. 


We were supposed to go on a ferry on the Hudson around Manhattan and Liberty Island in the night, we spent so much time in lovely SOHO however we decided that we'd do it the next day. This gave us time to relax and make out way back to our hotel with enough time so we could take in the sites around us which was nice! As the weather was so warm we didn't want much for supper so we decided to go to a little health-shop-place-thing not far from our hotel and we had a juice and a little sandwich. We also bought Teddy Grahams here which they don't sell in Wales but I'd heard of people talking about them on blogs and different places. We opened the pack a couple of days ago and WOW they are awesome! SOOOO tasty! After supper (which we had at around 10pm! The New Yorkers eat so late and stay up so late!) we sat outside facing Times Square which was in the distance, watching the world go by! Lovely Jubbly!