And upon arriving at the centre, the line up of people allowed us to change plans and go up to the top of the building for the lookout instead.
It still makes me shake my head at the organisation required (and the fees involved) simply to catch a lift to the top of a building and look out over this sprawling city, however I do admit it is well worth it.
The wind picked up whilst we were up there and became completely unbearable, so we cut the viewing short and headed down town to our next experience which was called “The Ride”. This is a great big modified bus where you all sit sideways staring out at the buildings and footpath and spend the next 75 minutes being entertained by the two hosts and some not so random actors on the side walks.
Apart from the very funny and entertaining hosts, it is so interesting seeing a person on the side of the street suddenly break out into dance and/or song on the footpath, all the time with the rest of New York walking past as if they weren’t even there.
I am pretty sure that even Tyler smiled a couple of times during this tour.
Our next step was possibly one of our bravest. We ventured down underground and caught the Subway to Brooklyn. We did manage to survive the trip and so far, believe we have not caught any unnamed incurable disease.
We escaped out into the sunlight above and spent the next hour exploring the quaint little eateries dotted around the area known as Dumbo.
We eventually settled on a burger joint and got ourselves a years worth of unhealthiness in one meal.
By the time we had finished, it was dusk and our walk home began - which was the whole intent of this trip.
We joined a few thousand other people and walked back across the Brooklyn Bridge, watching the city light up before our eyes.
We took our lives into our own hands again and caught the Subway back up to 50th street.
This gave us a 5 minute walk back to our steamer where we could finally sit back with our feet up and enjoy a quiet drink or two.
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