The plan for this day was to get up early and FINALLY do the Top of the Rock. Fail. Guess it's just another reason to go back!! We instead, chucked our things in a locker at the hostel, then headed down to Times Square where we had some brekkie and did a bit of wandering, then heading to Madame Tussuad's. We were there for just under 2 hours pretending we were friends with the rich and the famous, then caught the Subway to FAO Swartz! This place was amazing! All the kids toys you could ever imagine! Amazing!! This is also the place that has the piano that Tom Hanks plays on in the movie Big. We had to have a go, it was heaps of fun!! There was a 2 minute time limit though... Fair ... read more

We got up and headed to the Milford for another sad goodbye… This time it was Lauren’s turn. We said goodbye, to which she replied, “I’ll see you before Christmas!!” Looking forward to it LV!! We left and headed down to the Ground Zero site. It’s a bit odd being there, remembering all the images from that day. The site itself it really big, you can only imagine how tall the towers themselves were. We basically did a lap of the site; you can’t really see much anymore, it’s just a building site now. We did see a mural on the wall, on the side of a fire station that’s across the road from the site. The mural had the names of all the fire fighters that lost their lives that day. Whilst we were standing ... read more

We had a mini sleep in, then got ready and headed down to Times Square to meet up with Loz before we started our TV & Movie Sites Tour. Quite an interesting tour, as well as seeing the sites, we got a good overview of the entire city, as the sites were all over the place. Sites we did see included the Ghostbusters fire station, houses from I Am Legend and the Cosby Show, Ben’s Pizza from Men In Black II (we also had lunch here, yummy!), the Friends apartments, Law & Order Courts, Bowery Ballroom from Coyote Ugly and the tour finished outside the Gossip Girl Hotel. From there Mich, Lauren and I headed down the road a little to Grand Central Station. It’s such a beautiful station - and in so many movies and ... read more

9am off to the coach to get a ride into DC. Michelle, Lauren and I decided to make our first stop the Holocaust Museum. It’s been said it is the best museum in DC, and after going there I have to agree. We were there for around 2 hours, and it was so well set up, and if you were to read everything and look at every picture you could just about be there all day. It was really heartbreaking though as well… A very touching tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. Our next couple of stops were fairly rushed, we knew what we wanted to see so we kinda just walked in and out. We went to the American History Museum, where we saw the original Star Spangled Banner - the one the song ... read more

8.45am Bags to Coach! Stopped at a truck stop just past the Virginia border… Had a lunch stop in Richmond, the capital of Virginia. Cute little area where we stopped - it was here I found blocks of Cadbury’s chocolate!! Was super excited… Tried it later and it was horrible… pathetic excuse for Cadbury’s!! Got to Washington, we were staying just out a bit, in Cheverly at the HoJo!! Haha the Howard Johnson Hotel… Had buffet dinner at a little Italian restaurant next to the hotel, then hopped on the bus for an Illumination tour of Washington Dc. We started at the Capital building, got a few photos, then went to the World War 2 Memorial and Jefferson Memorial before it got dark. We then saw the Lincoln Memorial, Korean Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial. ... read more