USA

As we were leaving for Frankfurt today we quickly raced up the street to do some last minute shopping and to pick up some alterations we had done on some pants that were too long. We also went to the post office to send off a parcel of all the items we purchased while in the states in hope that our very heavy bags would become only heavy bags instead and hopefully make the grade for international air travel!

We caught a shuttle to airport which was rather interesting with 11 people in the shuttle all with bags and some with 2 bags each. We eneded up having bags stuffed in every available space in the van and it was a long tight trip to the airport! We checked in for our flight and Katie got one of the last remaining checkin seats meaning Kylie had to get her seat assignment at the boarding checkin. The flight was overbooked so Kylie was very stressed about missing her flight and hounded the boarding checkin ladies for a seat which she eventually got but was seated as far away from Katie as possible. All was fine until boarding and Katie discovered someone else in her seat and they soon worked out that they had both been check into the same seat so the hostess dragged Katie down the plane to the only available seat which just so happened to be next to Kylie! What luck!

The flight was fairly short and we were given dinner quickly followed what seemed like only an hour later, breakfast. The flight was quite quick and we didnt get much sleep at all. Hallo Germany!

Today we headed down to Wall Street and then went to the Rockefeller Centre where we did the Top of The Rock tour which basically means going to the top of the building and looking out on the city. Since we had seen the city from the Empire State Builing at night it was great to see it during the day and in all honesty it was probably better from the Rock. You got amazing views of Central Park from the Rock that oyu didnt get from Empire State. We stayed at the Rockefeller Centre for a while before decending and looking around the building including the famous skating ring. We were going to go ice skating but the line was huge and neither of us wanted to make idiots of ourselves in front of all those people!

We then did some (window) shopping along 5th Avenue before arriving at Central Park where we took a Horse and Carriage ride through the park. It was really beautiful and a great experience.

Since we hadn´t had lunch yet we went to a restruant for dinner before heading back to the hostel to pack our bags and then bed.

Today after checking our of our hotel (sob) we had lunch and then went to see the Broadway Show, The Colour Purple. It was an amazing show and very emotional. Very good performances all around. After the show we did some shopping along Broadway before having some dinner and heading back to our hotel to pick up our bags and move to the hostel. After achieving all this it was quite late and we headed to bed.

Today we did a tour of TV Stars and Manhattan Island featuring different locations that have been in movies or tv shows. It was a little different to the Sex in the City tour and some of the locations were of movies we had never heard of before but it was still really good. After our tour we had to head back to the hotel for a meeting and give our reviews of the tour and then we went to dinner at a place called Angelos for New York Pizza. The rest of the gang headed off for more clubbing but we wanted to soak up the luxury of our hotel some more on our final night so we went back to our room to do just that!

After a long sleep in after our massive day yesterday we had breakfast / lunch at the cafe again and then headed into town for a Sex in the City tour. It was actually really good and as it was a bus tour with no walking involved it was even better. We saw such things as Carries apartment and a bakery where they get these huge cupcakes which we also got to sample! YUM!

After the tour we went to Times Square for some shopping and then we had dinner at a place called Applebees which is a really american restraunt. It is amazing how much time flie when your having fun!