In amongst all the sight seeing we managed to fit in two quilt shops 🙂 Of course 🙂 I mean really, what is the use of a quilter going to the US if she can’t go to lots of quilt shops???? Right? Right 🙂 First shop was called Candy’s Quilting… There was lots of lovely…
We were also in walking distance to the 9/11 Memorial… so after the Brooklyn Bridge we headed in that direction… We stopped along the way for lunch and I had a Manhattan Bagel: Pretty yummy – it had cream cheese, smoked salmon, tomato and red onion… Not sure what made it typically “Manhattanish” but it…
I’m afraid you’re all going to have to put up with more than one post a day during this trip because there is just so much to blog about… Our hotel is very close to the Brooklyn Bridge.. so after brecky yesterday we walked over there… oh, our hotel doesn’t have a restaurant, so we’ve…
I have to say, I like Central Park. And although it is something you see all the time in the movies, I didn’t realize quite how big it is! Central Park is just over 800 acres, about the same size as the farm DH grew up on! And you could easily spend more than a…
We made it safe and sound! The flight from Dubai to NYC was similar to the one we take to Melbourne – 14 hours straight… a long trip, but I got some sleep at least… I didn’t bring my computer, so I’m doing this on my iPad – let’s see how it goes! We caught…