Up, Down and Out in New York City

We took a taxi down to South Seaport Dock to catch the Water taxi for a tour around the Hudson River. The tour took us up river heading toward the Statue of Liberty. It was very refreshing and the entertainment was fun. We got in some fantastic photos. The tour only lasted 45 minutes, which was perfect really. We then made our way to Ground Zero and checked on the progress of the work site. There was definitely massive construction taking place. The new twin towers haven’t been named yet, but we’re pretty sure they’ll be better than the predecessors.

Later, we purchased tickets to ride on a helicopter to take us on an aerial view of Manhattan. It was breathtaking and exciting, a real wow factor and worth the very expensive price, the best experience for us to date! We talked to the helicopter pilot the whole time about all the scenery, like the magnificent Central Park, the Empire State Building at a very acute scary angle, Yankee Stadium (no game). We safely landed back on the ground and we were both exhilarated, we didn’t know what to do with ourselves.

So, we figured a slice of New York pizza should calm us down and we went onto Broadway and found Sparrows Pizza, which wasn’t too far from our USA New York hotel, that’s how we knew about the place. We’ve been wanting to try it every since we arrive here in New York City, but we hadn’t had the opportunity until now. Sparrows served us the biggest slice of pizza we’ve ever had and man was it tasty, so tasty we had to order another slice, which made that we ate a whole pizza by ourselves. It’s a must do if you ever come to New York and want the best sliced pizza in town.

We headed back to our hotel and sat at the hotels lounge and chilled for a couple of hours. We then remembered we had cupcakes waiting for us up in our room, they were from Magnolia’s, which is featured in ‘Sex and the City’ TV series. We rushed up to our hotel room and tore open the box and devoured some of the best vanilla cupcakes in the world. Fabulous as each one went down and our waistlines went out. We figured we were preparing our stomach’s for more culinary delights when we head off to San Francisco in two days time.