Who wants to eat cake?

 

We did indeed get into the lobby of the Chrysler building. But only to be stopped by a sign that said CLOSED, and a humourless, speechless guard who just shrugged and said 'sign'. It will be open tomorrow morning but we will have our bags with us and it is quite a walk! We got to to see the gorgeous roof and almost a whole lift door. The small portion we did see was quite spectacular.

The ceiling of the Chrysler

On we walked to Grand Central Station. Another spectacular building, inside and out. Hundreds of people milling about. The architecture inside was fabulous. Then on to the Public Library. Big, huge staircases, a bit like the National Gallery. A few exhibitions in there which we briefly looked at. The queue to get out was bigger than the queue to get in, strangely! Next we walked around Bryant Park, where we briefly went the first day. Today we meandered around the little pop-up shops. Lots of lovely interesting expensive things. We bought a hat for Huffle from a street vendor and a couple of things to take home for the three chimps. After completely wearing out our shoe leather and hurting our ankles from too much stopping and starting (from the many (huffle edit - bloody stupid dawdling idiots ) pedestrians in front), we made our way back to the hotel. We stopped at the ticket desk to check if there were any tickets for ANY show tonight. Nothing tonight or tomorrow for ANYTHING.

We sat in our room, charged our phones, put up our feet and ate a Cannoli. Ummm, maybe Carlos' was worth the long wait. So far we have tried the Chocolate Fudge Brownie - beautiful icing, and the Cannoli, very good. Two out of two so far Buddy! We phoned home and spoke to everyone. The boys were very silly. Small had been out sledging with Cog.

Ummmmm - Cannoli's.

Off we walked to the Rockerfeller Centre to climb the Top of the Rock. It took ages as there were many many people. If tonight is this busy, imagine what tomorrow will be like. Glad we are not here then. We are starting to miss the calm and tranquility of country life. When we got to the Rockerfeller Centre we were in the wrong entrance and sent to another one. When we got to that entrance we were told it was a three hour wait. The next slot for climbing the tower would be 10:15pm. We decided to leave it and started looking for places to eat.

The closest we could get to the Ice Rink at the Rockerfeller - so busy!

The lit up Empire State Building. Always lit up at night, different coloured lights for different celebrations.

Huffle's favourite shop lights

Eventually we found a lovely little Pizzeria called Angelos. We had a bottle of red, a seventeen inch pizza and some bread. Now it's been a long time since Huffle and I had a bottle of wine between us. We were quite tipsy and silly by the time we left. The food was good. The wine was better.

We got the subway back. More interesting people. We popped into Macy's on the way back (still open at 10pm at night). Huffle tried on hats and we took some silly photos and posted them on Instagram. That's to prove how drunk we were.

We came back to our room after buying an expensive bottle of water and Huffle telling the shop keeper he was a Robbin' B@5t@rd and said 'here take this Mickey Mouse money!' Drunken bum! In our room we ate Carlos' Cake. 3/3 good stuff Buddy!

Tomorrow we need to vacate our room at 12. There are still flights being cancelled and snow on the way. We are hoping we will not be toasting the New Year in with a can of coke in the Airport!

 

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