It was a long bus ride, with a lot of stops, but seeing as I'm a natural at sleeping, it was all good. The tour bus we were on, was one for french retired people and the tour guide Robert was really nice and funny. 

 

Honestly, this trip is now so far away I might not be able to put everything in exact chronological order, but never mind. We arrived late at our hotel, and the first thing we did after dumping our bags up in our rooms was eating. Welcome to America, where a pancake is the size of a pizza! 

We stayed in New York until midday monday, when we went on the long bus ride back again. During our time there, we saw Central Park on the only sunny time of our trip and walked around. It was so peaceful in there, and we saw the big Imagine sign and there was a hippie sitting by the side of it playing the song. We went shopping on 5th avenue, taking pictures with the hos Abercrombie&Fitch models. Yep, they ligit had a guy standing shirtless in the door with another person taking pictures of the tourist and the guy with the old kind of camera that prints them our right away. I felt a little bad for the poor guys...

 

We ran up and down the streets in the rain, saw the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, went on a guided walk through the city; wall street, where the twin towers used to be, some kind of bull of good fortune. We walked around in Chinatown, almost getting lost on the way there. Ate some dough-thingies from a stand on the street and took a yellow cab. Believe me, it's not as easy to find one as it seems in the movies. Turns out you have to stand on the right street. 

I was surprised at how cosy and friendly New York was. I mean, it's huge, but it didn't have the whole big city feeling to it. Like in a way it did, but at the same time it was just like this nice friendly place. My favourite place out of the ones we went to was central park, it was so pretty and harmonic.

 

Central park 

 

At Pier 17 there was this cute little story with the coolest hangers I have ever seen, all covered in pearls. I didn't want any of their clothes, but I wouldn't have said no to one of those hangers. Just imagine your closet like that. Oh wow.