Day 8 Thursday.
Today we packed a bag of dirty washing
to take to a wash and fold place, I had googled and found one on 9th
Avenue, we dropped off the washing and then walked to find The Highline, this is a park that has been created on a disused elevated railway. We walked along until we came to the exit nearest Chelsea market, a food market that is housed in the Nabisco Factory building, we had a look in the shops in the market and got a Red Velvet Cup Cake from Amy's Bread, we then returned to the Highline to eat the cupcake and finish walking the length of the park.
We came down off the Highline at the
southern end and got on the subway at the 8th Avenue Station and got
on the uptown C train to the 72nd street station, had a sit down in
the Strawberry fields area of Central park by the Imagine mosaic and
took a few photos when it cleared of a few tour groups, the weather
was a bit better today so it was busy. Now to something that I had
been looking forward too, I am a child at heart and had wanted to go
to Alice's Tea Cup since a friend told me about it, also the idea of
all synful food after my year of dieting sounded good, I was worried
it would be too busy and we would not get in but it was fine, the
service was excellent and all the food lovely, not cheap but we were
on holiday and I thought it was totally worth it, we had a
jabberwocky afternoon tea for two which included two types of
sandwich, three different flavoured scones with preserves, assorted
cookies and a chocolate mousse or lemon tart, and tea, they had a
whole tea menu and it was the first decent cuppa since arriving in
America. We did not finish everything and a scone and the cookies
were wrapped up for us to take with us, the rest rooms here were very
clean as well.
After Alice's we walked back to the
park to see a bit more, we walked past Bethesda Fountain and the
boating lake. Headed back to the hotel on the Subway,
got out at 42nd Street so we could fetch the washing on the way back
to our hotel, it was $11.50, and all lovely and clean and shrink
wrapped.
Tonight we were going to a house concert at an apartment in
the Upper West Side, We had reserved our tickets and the organiser
had been very friendly and helpful, they had saved us a wonderfully soft
and comfortable two seater sofa on the front row, just what we needed
after all the walking we had done! It was hard not to go to sleep,
luckily the Singer Songwriter Jonathan Byrd and his friend lady
fiddle player and singer Chris Kokesh were enthralling and weaved
great stories with their songs and music and kept us entertained,
there was no air con in the apartment and it was very warm, lovely
cold drinks were provided though.
The concert finished early and we
decided as we were not too tired we would go for a ride on the Staten
Island Ferry, we got the B or C down to Columbus Circle and changed
to the 1 train to South Ferry, it was a very warm evening and the
trip over was just what we needed to cool off, sat outside all the
way, got off the ferry and hurried round to catch the next ferry back
only to find it cancelled due to a security alert, so now had to wait
until Midnight for a ferry back, we later saw a girl being led off by
security to identify a bag she had left on board so that explained
that! Very tired by the time we got back to the hotel but a lovely
day.
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