We'd planned for a bit of a lie in this morning, most days over the last few weeks have been hectic or we've had to check out by a certain time or something. So today, we looked to have an easy day and had decided a lie in was in order. However, it appears we have the worlds noisiest hotel room. There are roadworks outside the window, and they work through the night here, then come rush hour the traffic just sits there blasting the horn because, well,'merica!
At breakfast Martin made himself a waffle using the machine in the kitchen, this was a disaster as he'd overfilled it plus then it fell apart, unfortunately Mark was too slow with the pic and it looked ok at this point. There was also some random dead guy lieing across one of the tables at breakfast, either he'd had a heavy night last night or the waffle mix was off...we'd find out soon enough.
We left the hotel on a 40 min walk to the park next to Brooklyn Bridge, on the way we saw some guy get knocked off his bike by an SUV at the roadworks, ge was ok, but the worker who was stood doing nothing 2 foot away continued to be helpful and do nothing as the guy attempted to drag himself and the bike out of the road. We crossed to help but he was ok by then so we left before we got sued for bring helpful.
At the park we had a great view of the Manhattan skyline and the bridge, there were lots of choppers swooping around taking people on trips. Unfortunately the jet ski tour we wanted to do wasn't running, so we carried on our walk instead.
We walked over the bridge which is just over a mile long. It's a nice bridge and really busy with hundreds of people walking over, we didn't think anyone walked in America, must be tourists :)
The bridge joined the financial district so we took in the 11/9 monument where the two towers were, it's still being worked on but they've made these two big water features where the footprint of the towers were which are a fitting tribute.
After a stroll to Wall St to try and spot some wolves we caught the subway to Time Square where it all began just over two weeks ago. Here we visited the Marvel Avengers a Museum which was pretty cool. It was interactive and we got to join S.H.I.E.L.D, play with a life size hulk hologram, fly a virtual eye tracking Iron Man suit and test our fitness against Captain America amongst other things.
On the way back to Brooklyn, Mark spotted an American sized mini which was pretty cool:
We'd decided that for our last evening meal we'd have a big steak so we found a place with an array of steaks on order, the smallest of which was a 20oz sirloin so this is what we ordered.
It comes with a bunch of bread rolls, a large salad, veg, chips or mash and onion rings.
How does anyone finish this? Even after cutting the fat off the steak it was bigger than my hand and an inch thick.
Needless to say we ate what we could and felt like proper fat bastards.
We stopped by a bar after and watched the ball game over a few beers. After an attricious game, Seattle claimed victory over the Redskins.
Last day tomorrow :(
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