New York

After Toronto we all headed to the big apple - New York. We got right into sight seeing on our first night there with a visit to Statten Island on a FREE tour organised by the hostel we were staying in. On the way there and back we got a great view of the statue of Liberty.

And on the island we got the best value pizza slice in all of USA - $1.50 slices that were bigger than our heads - and the guy who owned the shop loved us so much he gave us all a free slice. I believe that makes 75cent slices people...
(us with another aussie we picked up - the girl not the pizza guy)
We saw all the sites in New York including the famous Times Square.

where we spent a good deal of our time queuing for cheap broadway tickets. Whilst in New York we managed to catch Hairspray, Mary Poppins and our favourite - Wicked. As well as the New York Ballet.
We also made sure we visited all the villages and different areas of New York while we were there including Chinatown and had great Yum Cha in which we may have consumed some things we didn't recognise but enjoyed nevertheless.

We also went to a Yankees game at the Yankee stadium in the Bronx in which we watched the Yankees totally lose to the Texas Rangers up in the nosebleeds.

And although we didn't manage to get tickets to the show, Leon couldn't resist a photo outside his favourite - the late show.

Of course Charlie and Katherine couldn't resist a photo outside their favourite either - Tiffany & Co on fifth avenue after also being unable to resist some ahhhh *small* purchases?

And that was it - 10 days in New York and we loved every minute of it, even playing kill the cockroaches in Chelsea.