Me and Erika decided (pretty spontaneously) to go to New York City today.
The weather was beautiful - hot, sunny, not a cloud in the sky!
When we arrived in the city we got a drink from Starbucks, obviously, and then we wandered towards Times Square because I wanted to find the red spinning chairs. We found them and we certainly had a laugh! We took some videos and photos and were pretty much laughing the whole time. Erika was so scared on them, it was so funny to watch.
After we went to the NYC public library. We had a look around and it was really beautiful inside! It was like an art museum. I dared Erika to lie down in the middle of the library floor with everyone walking around and she did it, and it was HILARIOUS. The funniest thing was how hardly anyone reacted!!!
After this we took the subway down to Brooklyn Bridge. We bought a padlock and wrote our names on it. Then we walked along Brooklyn Bridge and Erika attached our lock to the bridge where it will hopefully stay forever! We put it in a place where there were a lot of old locks so I don't think they get removed from that one place (as you aren't meant to attach locks to the bridge and they frequently get removed.) Because this certain place still had a lot of old locks I think they don't remove them from there - maybe because the locks were attached to the street light over the road and removing them would be too much of a risk.
We then went to Starbucks (again) for a snack and another drink, and then we headed to Ground Zero. We went up to The World Trade 1 Observatory. It is the highest building in the western hemisphere. We stayed up there for over 2 hours and we took a load of photos and had a good old laugh. As we always do. The views from up there were stunning. I had never been up there before and now I have been up World Trade 1, The Empire State and The Rockefeller's Centre which is cool.
We then wandered around the city and went to Shake Shack for dinner...YUM!
In Grand Central Terminal we found this well known thing, where you can talk into the wall and you can hear the person on the opposite end of the room who is talking / listening to you - it was CRAZY and so cool.
Then I took the train back home after a busy, special day in the city with my best friend.
