This morning we took another open-topped bus tour, this time of uptown New York. Firstly we travelled up the west side of Central Park and saw a lot of famous buildings ...
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| Central Park |
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| Columbus Circle, Time Warner Centre and Trump Tower |
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| Dakota Building - John Lennon was assassinated outside this gate and Yoko Ono still lives in the building |
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| Strawberry Fields, Central Park - a memorial to John Lennon |
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| The San Remo Building - Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Steve Martin and Bono live here |
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The El Dorado Building - Michael J Fox and Alec Baldwyn live here |
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We learned that "Manhattan" comes from the American Indian words "manna-hatta", which means "island of many little hills". We moved through Morningside Heights and saw more interesting sites ...
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| Cathedral of St John the Divine - which can seat 9000 worshippers at any one time, was begun 119 years ago and is still being built because each stone is hoisted by hand, not by cranes (don't know why) |
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| Columbia University |
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| Grant's Tomb |
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| George Washington Bridge - the only 14-lane suspension bridge in the world and costs $12 to cross |
Then we drove through Harlem and saw ...
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| Apollo Theatre - where Count Basie, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson all started their careers |
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| Shabazz Mosque |
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| Duke Ellington Memorial |
Then we turned down the other side of Central Park and moved into the Upper East Side. Here, we saw ...
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| Conservatory Gardens in Central Park |
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| The Guggenheim Museum |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art |
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| The Frick Collection |
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| The Plaza Hotel |
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| The Pond in Central Park |
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| Carnegie Hall |
It was a great tour and finished off our "all round view" of New York. Then we went to lunch at Bubba Gumps Shrimp Company - a fantastic restaurant all themed on the Forrest Gump movie. They had great food and we had lots of fun remembering scenes and quotes from one of our favourite movies!
Wayne and I bought t-shirts and I got a key ring.
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| On the other side, it says "Stupid is as Stupid does" ... a classic quote from Forrest Gump! |
Then we went to Madame Tussaud's and met heaps of famous people ...
I picked up another key ring ...
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| Each of the four cubes spins around |
After that we went back to the hotel to relax for a while, then went out to the Broadway Theatre in the evening to see "Sister Act". It was a great show and we all really enjoyed ourselves.
We picked up pizzas and pasta on the way home for dinner and I had tomato & basil soup. We fell into bed after a fantastic day!
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