November New York Travelogue

We are now in New York, cozily settled in an excellent suite hotel The London NYC that seems to be in the center of most attractions interesting to us: Central Park, six blocks; fifth avenue shopping, four blocks; Times Square, five blocks (or something, has not yet visited there — but the lights can be seen here).

The local time is 4:45 AM and I and Aapo are awake. He has been for an hour or more, I tried dozing with no avail. Now I’m writing this in the living room of the suite and Aapo is watching a Goofy DVD we bought along with a portable player from Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Classic Goofy episodes are fun to watch…

The flight was surprisingly easy, albeit it was late for 45 minutes or so. The immigration takes its own time when going to the US — to be honest, I don’t know why they bother with these procedures, reminds me of a third world country. Anyhow, after stepping on US soil, we got the bags immediately and then boarded AirTrain to NYC metro. The metro took us to the next block from our hotel, so we had literally walk around the corner and cross a street to get here.

I run some business during the rest of the evening. Yesterday, we woke up early and visited a traditional US diner for breakfast. The amount of fat was staggering, but the sausages were excellent. Then we visited Central Park, strolled around there, found a children play area and Aapo got fascinated with ducks in The Pond.

Then we visited a number of shops and bought a load of stuff, including one new bag for bringing them home. We nod off already at seven.

Today, we’ll go to Central Park Zoo and visit a few more shops around the Fifth Avenue and Times Square for some sights for Aapo and then there’s also Toys’R'Us. More of this later.