Saturday, January 06, 2007
New York and Canada!
Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year! Having a lot of trouble getting onto email over the last week, and both of our phones went completely dead a couple of days before new years, don't think our UK sim cards work here, so apologise if we haven't replied to any texts or emails lately.
Anyway, we’ve been keeping really busy, we spent 7 nights in New York which was phenomenal. We did all the sights, our favourites being Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building. We spent Christmas having a big Roast Turkey lunch inside the Grand Hyatt, then went to the Rockefeller Centre and finished with beers in the ESPN bar in Times Square which was really cool.
Kate's highlight was standing alongside Ryan Seacrest in the middle of a major intersection in Times Square. He was doing a bit for E News, and shopping in places like Century 21, Macy's, Bloomingdales, and she was wishing she could shop in places like Tiffany's, Cartier, and Victoria’s Secret.
Hated having to leave, brilliant city, everything is done big, and that includes the food. On the plane over I said I couldn't wait to try their big pizzas so I got one as soon as we arrived and I could only get through 3 pieces which is a disgrace for me, but this thing was gigantic. Would love to see what the Extra Large is like! We also saw the Friends building on our last day after hearing it's exact location on the TV the night before! Had a great time in New York, it’s a place we both really want to come back to one day.We flew to Vancouver, Canada on the 29th, just spent the night and caught the bus to Whistler first thing the next morning to meet Louse and Amanda. Such a beautiful place! New Years was good fun, a Canadian couple Louse and Amanda lived with in Vancouver came up and we pre-drank a heap at home and then all went to a club till early hours of the morning. I knew I had a good night when I woke up in the morning with a cut on my nose and lip and no one having any idea how it happened! Got some great pics, especially a few classics of Louse!New Years Day snowed all day, absolutely bucketed down. It was amazing! To put it in perspective, in Falls Creek, for the entire season they had 54cm, we had 72cm in the space of 24 hours, it was like being in a movie.Yesterday Louse and Amanda took us up the mountain for the first time, Kate and I having a crack at snowboarding. They were great teachers and it didn't take us long to get the hang of it. Louse spent the whole day with Kate and in the end he had her up on her own and she was able to board for a while without falling. I had an absolute ball, and surprisingly, I wasn't rubbish like I thought I'd be, by the end Louse and I were doing runs in 10 minutes!
We are paying for it today though, Kate and I are in agony, feels like we've both just played a game of footy! We're going back up the mountain either tomorrow or the next day!Anyway, we'll be in touch again shortly, still here for another 4 days, can't access my gmail at the moment but will be able to when we get to California so I'll jump online then.
Anyway, we’ve been keeping really busy, we spent 7 nights in New York which was phenomenal. We did all the sights, our favourites being Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building. We spent Christmas having a big Roast Turkey lunch inside the Grand Hyatt, then went to the Rockefeller Centre and finished with beers in the ESPN bar in Times Square which was really cool.
Kate's highlight was standing alongside Ryan Seacrest in the middle of a major intersection in Times Square. He was doing a bit for E News, and shopping in places like Century 21, Macy's, Bloomingdales, and she was wishing she could shop in places like Tiffany's, Cartier, and Victoria’s Secret.
Hated having to leave, brilliant city, everything is done big, and that includes the food. On the plane over I said I couldn't wait to try their big pizzas so I got one as soon as we arrived and I could only get through 3 pieces which is a disgrace for me, but this thing was gigantic. Would love to see what the Extra Large is like! We also saw the Friends building on our last day after hearing it's exact location on the TV the night before! Had a great time in New York, it’s a place we both really want to come back to one day.We flew to Vancouver, Canada on the 29th, just spent the night and caught the bus to Whistler first thing the next morning to meet Louse and Amanda. Such a beautiful place! New Years was good fun, a Canadian couple Louse and Amanda lived with in Vancouver came up and we pre-drank a heap at home and then all went to a club till early hours of the morning. I knew I had a good night when I woke up in the morning with a cut on my nose and lip and no one having any idea how it happened! Got some great pics, especially a few classics of Louse!New Years Day snowed all day, absolutely bucketed down. It was amazing! To put it in perspective, in Falls Creek, for the entire season they had 54cm, we had 72cm in the space of 24 hours, it was like being in a movie.Yesterday Louse and Amanda took us up the mountain for the first time, Kate and I having a crack at snowboarding. They were great teachers and it didn't take us long to get the hang of it. Louse spent the whole day with Kate and in the end he had her up on her own and she was able to board for a while without falling. I had an absolute ball, and surprisingly, I wasn't rubbish like I thought I'd be, by the end Louse and I were doing runs in 10 minutes!
We are paying for it today though, Kate and I are in agony, feels like we've both just played a game of footy! We're going back up the mountain either tomorrow or the next day!Anyway, we'll be in touch again shortly, still here for another 4 days, can't access my gmail at the moment but will be able to when we get to California so I'll jump online then.
# posted by Barb @ 3:19 pm 
