Natalie Downe

For some reason Simon and I felt incredibly rough today, we watched trashy chat shows and slept through most of the morning with headaches from hell. It could be jet lag, it could be not drinking enough water, it could probably be a tea withdrawal symptoms though! Eventually surfacing from the room we strolled up to Central Park via some very fine pizza on the Upper West Side. We snoozed in the ’sheep field’ for nearly 2 hours before going to the Apple store to play with an iPhone, it is so lovely! we then took the (extremely hot) metro to the Stratten Island ferry port.

The Stratten Island ferry is free and well worth a trip, it goes past the statue of Liberty which you can see from the port side of the ferry. I think I must have a vivid imagination of large things, like giraffes, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty, I imagined all of them to be bigger than they are in real life, giraffes were a particular disappointment. The Statue of Liberty is still very impressive though! When you get to Stratten Island and arrive in ‘New Brighton’ you have to get off the ferry and walk through the ferry port in order to get back on to go back.

Back in Times square we investigated tickets to the musical murder mystery ‘Curtains’ staring Niles Craine! as it was sold out we are adding it to our itinerary for Monday, it looks really fun! Our evening entertainment for tonight instead consisted of one of the only good Mexican restaurants in New York apparently, and then the Laugh Factory which was funny in places but generally quite offensive. I was really surprised at how many racist jokes there were, like it was really normal, very odd!