AMERICA - NEW YORK

My first full day in New York was packed full of sightseeing. We walked up 5th Avenue to Rockerfeller Centre (would love to go ice skating there in the winter) & went into St. Patricks Cathedral by which time we were freezing cold. The day before had been really warm & I had not really checked the weather for the next day - big mistake. So into The Gap we went, although all the summer stuff is out so we had to settle for a three quarter sleeve cardigan thing (it feels a bit Nana-ish) & a scarf from a street stall (which has actually come in quite handy) & then a quick stop at Barneys which is way out of my price range.
Then Fiona treated me to a pedicab tour of Central park which is a huge & wonderful place (photo 1 is us on one of the bridges in the park). Both in the park & viewing the city from the park you can see so many familiar scenes from so many different movies. We walked through Strawberry Fields which has the dedication to John Lennon (photo 2 is the Imagine mosaic), stopped by the Guggenheim Museum (just for the architecture not the actual art - photo 3), the Museum of Natural History (we just went into the entry to look at the dinosaur - photo 4) & the Metropolitan Museum (to look at the Impressionist paintings).
After that it was a latte at Sant Ambrose (hope I spelt that right) which is THE place to go, jumped on the subway & dropped into Bob‘s office (he‘s an architect & no-one there can understand how I am allowed to design houses if I am not an architect). Fiona then took me to my first yoga class where I am pretty sure I saw Rachel McAdams (google her if you don’t recognise the name & you should know who she is). I am not so great at yoga. I am okay with the movements but my mind keeps jumping all over the place as I am not very good at focusing, meditating or relaxing. There was also a lot of breathing involved which was kind of hard as I was stuggling to breath thanks to my allergy to Squeaky the cat.
Yoga was followed by way too much to eat at the Japanese restaurant over the road from Fiona & Bob’s apartment. Very yummy though - just ordered too much.
Fiona’s fault.