As promised, this is what we did yesterday.

Woken up around 8:15am, Céline and I took our time to prepare ourselves since we didn't want to take our breakfast, the previous day diner still aching our stomaches. We were ready around 9:30am and went to the bank for our friends.

In the mean time, I called the post office to have some information about our mailbox keys and they told me that I could come and get them. And this is what we did :). Since we were near Avalon, we went to the leasing offce to ask them some question about holes in the wall.

This done, we called Benoît and meet them at the Hotel to go to New York City.

This is now that the day really began. As usual, we took the PATH up to the 33rd street (Madison Square) and went to the Empire State Building. We bought our tickets and went to the 86th floor : the view is really amazing ! Even though it was really cold up there, we took the time to shoot a lot of photos of New York City. Seeing Central Park from there was awesome !

Empire - Central Park

It was really nice to see the city from so high and we felt really really small up there. It was just so sad that we couldn't see the World Trade Center ... But the view was still amazing with the 5th Avenue !

Empire - 5th

After spending around 30 minutes up there, we went down and took the road direction Time Square (again ?). The three peoples with us who never came to NYC were really impressed by the city. Since it was almost 2pm, we decided to stop somewhere and it something. This was were we tried the McDonald's ... I can't understand why this fast food is okay in other countires like France, China, Australia ... but really digusting here ! Even the Fanta is not good ...

Nevertheless, this didn't stop us on our "journey". We then went to the M&M's store and even though this was my second time there, I was also amazed by what I saw ! It is impressive how much things they have made around this product and we could see how popular this chocolate candy is !

M&M's wall

After that, we headed to the Apple Store (again ?) by the 5th Avenue. Our Apple Fanboy Fabien was in his world there ! This place is quite beautiful and is openend 24 hours a day ! No wonder there is so much people going there just to use a mac.

Apple

As scheduled, we finally went to Central Park ! We only visited a little portion of the south area of this big park and what we saw was beautiful.

Central Park - Tower

We took our time to walk around and discovered the famous Ice Rink :

Central Park - Rink

This is a place we will sure visit again and we can't wait to see some leaves on these trees ! We were told that the USA were full of squirrels, but we haven't seen any of these little creature since our arrival here. But Central Park were the place where we could finally see those. There were so much of them even though we had only seen a small part of the park. Their way of moving was funny and it seemed like they were posing in front of our cameras.

Central Park - Squirrel

Since it was starting to get dark, we decided to go home and get some rest. This day at New York City was quite tirering but worth it :) !

Around 9pm, we started to get hungry, so we took the car to find somewhere nice to eat. This is when we saw a Diner restaurant on the road and decided to try it. The menu was full of different sandwiches, burgers and more elaborate meal but we decided to take the cheapest. Three of us took some Chickent "special" sandwiches and the fourth one took a Cheese Steak Wrap. It cost us around $10 for each but it was really big and was like a battle for us to finish what we ordered !

Diner

This is a restaurant we will often visit :) !