Day 11: New York

Early rise on our second day in NYC, around 10am I think. After a quick brekky of peanut butter toast and cereal, we got on our way. Mum had planned a massive walk for us and my feet were hurting just thinking about it. For some healthy walking energy we decided to get ourselves some Dunkin' Donuts, which were alright, but didn't compare to Krispy Kreme.
Our first stop was Top of the Rock (Top of the Rockefeller building), a great view up 70 floors high. Mum and Dad were talking about a ball that drops on New Year's Eve, but I had no idea what they were talking about. Saw Central Park and the Empire State building from up there too, and on the way down, Mum waited in line to get our tickets for Cirque De Soleil later that evening.
Kept walking, split up to Zac and Lucy's highlights of the day (well, at the time anyway). Mum took Lucy to Zara as Dad, Zac and I toured Niketown to look for new sneakers. This ended with Zac deciding not to get sneakers, and Lucy discovered Zara didn't sell kids' clothes!
We then ventured on toward Central Park, although we were stopped by our spotting of the temporary Apple store (they're rebuilding). This underground room was crawling with people, there was barely room to breathe!! Zac brightened up a bit and made a new life goal to get an iPhone, much to Dad's disappointment.
I should explain this next part:
In San Francisco, at the end of our our bike ride us kids all wanted some churros (straight line cinnamon donuts) from a nearby stall. However Dad said we didn't have time, and that there would be churros all over America. He followed this up with "if we don't see any more churros, I will give you $100."
I was getting hopeful, after not seeing any since that day but just past the Apple store, we saw them. Oh well, I still got a churro!
Next we began walking through Central Park towards the Museum of Natural History. After getting some tickets at the museum, we entered, seeing the dinosaur from Night at the Museum, but realizing it was soooo much bigger in the movie! We looked through a few exhibits that were very well presented, and that I found fascinating, but Zac just thought that is feet hurt.
Afterwards we headed out for our first subway ride back to Times Square. It was only after looking at the map that we realized we had walked about fifty blocks from our hotel! We rode the subway back to Times Square, in daylight this time, and grabbed some salad for tea before walking AGAIN to Cirque De Soleil. Once we had got to our seats way up in the second mezzanine, we looked out at the massive theatre we were in. So big, in fact, that Dad was getting vertigo, and Lucy dropped her ticket over the edge!
The show was amazing, our first Cirque De Soleil ever (except for Mum and Dad).
We finally got to bed after 11pm, the first of many late nights to come - that's why this blog is a day late. Can't wait for days to come, but that's all for now.
Tom