Finally New York

After a great time in miami we headed for the last state on our trip, it was New York!

In New York we wanted to buy souveneirs, go to the top of empire state building, take a walk in central park and place a candle at groud zero. We also wanted to do some shopping. However we first had to wait until the boat reached land.

At 10am we walked of the boat at the New York harbour and we was very hungry since we didn´t had any food on the boat. So the first thing we did after that we gave back the keeys to the strange guy´s brother was to take the buss to chinatown and buy a lot of cheap nudles from a chinese wagon. After a nice meal we parked our car on the nearest parking lot and we went for a walk around chinatown. It was a nice place with a lot of small shops selling to and so on. Farnam suddenly said: "We can buy tee to our grandmothers!!". It was a good idea so we bought some chinese tee. After the calm walk the clock was about 14am and we wanted to visit ground zero before dinner so we called: "TAXI" and instantly a yellow cab stopped just infront of us. That was very cool. When we arrived to ground zero we bought a candle in the nearest shop we could find. We looked a ground zero that now was a construction site, placed our candle and even took a silent minute thinking about the victims :(

Ground Zero

After we had visited ground zero we were kind of sad so we decided to go to the cinema watch a movie to cheer us up a little.Since we´re so cool we watched a movie called No Strings Attached!! It was really funny and hadn´t even had premier in Sweden yet. After the movie the clock was 8pm so we went to a motel, ate some dinner, took a shower and went out to see the night life of New York. The party at the night club got out of control and when we woke up next morning Linus was married...

Farnam and I think that Linus marrige problems isn´t intresting so we won´t mention it anymore.

The next morning we ate a classic American breakfast (pannkakes whit maple syrup) and then we went out for a walk in the central park. The park was bigger than we expected whit a lot of peoples jogging and walking dogs. It was beautiful weather so we took of our shirts and lay to rest under a nice cherry tree, we even ate some cherrys :) After our visit at the Central Park we took a cab to the Empire state building and took the elevator to the top. The view from the top of Empire state building is beyond imagination! We saw the whole city with all the scyscrapers and the view was amazing! I think we stood there on the top of the building for like 30minutes just admiring the view. We didn´t ate there thought since it was too expensive. When we got down to street again we found a kentucky fried chicken resturant which lead to that we two minutes later had a bucket of chicken each. One hour after we bought the food we were finally done and was just on our way to move out from the restaurant. However that didn´t happen... We were so filled up so we had to wait for one more hour until we finally could get up from the table.

Central Park

From empire state building!

We thought it was enought for one day so we went back to the same motel as the day before and went to bed. The next morning we had the clock set on 8am and we were going out shopping. We didn´t had very much money left but we still had enought to buy souvenirs and some clothes :) We all three bought a deck each with motivs of different places in the US. I also bought a pair of fancy socks, Linus bought a rose to his wife and Farnam bought a miniature of a flagpole with the american flagg. After our little shopping tour we decided that we wanted to visit the statue of liberity. We think it´s a really cool statue since it so big and we thought it was a very nice view from the crown. To get to the crown you got to walk up all the 354steps wich is very hard if you had ate like americans for the last month ;) As you might know the statue was a gift from the France as a sign of international friendship however it´s today a sign for freedom and democracy. After the visit of the statue of liberty and we wanted to see how it looked alike from the ocean. So we took the buss to a ferry called Staten Island Ferry wich is a ferry that is free to take and that´s giving you a good view of the statue of liberity and the harbours of New York.

The Statue of Liberity

After have the boat ride we all three got this very strong feeling that the chapter of our lives called the US was about to end. We think that it´s complete now and its time to stop writing. So this is our final goodbye from the three guys that had a wonderful time in the US.

Ps. Canada is nice, but USA is better!