The Last Coupla Days

So we headed to Toronto last week and visited the CN tower which was very cool despite seeing mostly clouds and the streets right below us. Thankfully we didn't fall through the glass floors but it was an odd feeling. We got lots of photos and even went on a simulated ride of a tree factory. Those poor logs go on a lot of rollercoasters to get where they need to go hey
From there we headed to the Steamwhistle Brewery and saw how beer was made which was pretty interesting but the weather was poor so after a dinner at Jack Astors we headed home and that was our big tour of Toronto :D

But these last couple of days we went to New York City! It is an amazing city, very busy and loud and dirty and COLD. Due to our delayed flight from snow, and a loooong subway trek of which i managed to over shoot our hotel, we were walking the streets and through Time Square with 6 girls and bout the same amount of suitcases :) Basically we just spent the evening buying souvenirs; went out for an amazing dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. Maygan had finally recovered from our flight; we did a few wobbles and bounces in our landing hahaha. Our hotel was actually quite nice and NO BED BUGS :P

The second day after dragging ourselves out of bed we headed on the subway down to the Statue of Liberty. We caught the Straten Island ferry and tried to get some photos in front of the statue to no avail....we got some with the statue tiny in the distance. And it was very cold in NY but the sun was shining :) From there we went to the World Trade Centre site. it was....disquitening for want of a better word, to be in place where so many people died. I was trying to imagine it from all the things we had see on TV and it was pretty scary. Just seeing the space inthe sky where they used to be....but basically all we could see was the new construction around the area and the construction face. We bought some souveniers from the museum but moved on to Chinatown!!!

Chinatown made me feel like I was back in Egypt. People hassling you and grabbing you to sell their stuff. Kayla and Maygan and Ash were in their element with buying prada and gucci and louis vuitton bags and the rest of us just wandered. I fell alseep in Macas :) Seeing most of the day was gone we headed back to the hotel with all our products of sale and then walked the streets to buy tickets to BROADWAY!!! We ended up watching Mamma Mia which was amazing!!! So much fun and we had realy good seats as well. Before that we had wandered the freezing roads for a subway and finally found one 10 blocks from where we started. Seeing it was Friday night a lot of the shops were still open once the theatre was done so we had fun in Times Square. Even got on one of the big screens from Forever 21...was great being famous for 2 min haha.

Saturday we checked out Central Park and it was actually a lot of fun, I got in trouble for trying to create a snow fight haha but we got lots of photos. The horse and carts in the area were really cute as well but we decided to forgo a ride it being freeezing and expensive. We then slowly made our way back to the hotel shopping on Fifth Avenue. Maygan was succesful in Banana Republic. Finally realized that the tall building near our hotel was Empire State Building so took lots of photos. :) We decided to hang out at the hotel till our suburban arrvived to take us to the airport and that was that!!

After a good sermon from Rev Smith today Im not proceeding to pack ALL 3 of my suitcases because we leave for Edmonton tomorrow afternoon!!

Till then

xxxx