Photos! New York City!

As a treat from our teacher, we were given a 3-day trip to New York! We arrived in Newark Airport (in New Jersey) and drove to our YMCA to settle in.

The next morning we went to Grand Central Station to take photos and get some food. We then were allowed free time to spend walking through New York City,

Although we didn't get to go to Liberty Island, we got on a ferry to Staten Island and went right past it, here's the statue herself!

We walked past a lot of famous buildings and lot's of people. There were a surprising amount of preachers (see old man in photo above) that were all actually quite funny.

Here's the 9/11 Memorial, visited by thousands daily.

A friend and I went up to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building and the view was spectacular.

It was surprising to see how large Central Park actually is.

The underground glass Apple store was odd.

We went into Central Park and it was amazingly beautiful. The walk through the entire park was quite good, I saw a lot of dogs and a huge pack of joggers all running back and forth across the park from 5th Ave. to 8th Ave.

Being a big fan of the show "Cake Boss" I naturally felt happy seeing the Carlos Bakery store in Times Square. We went in and got cakes (obviously) and various other sweets.

Waiting for my number ton a while, but the brownie i bought was absolutely worth it.

Walked past the New York Times building which was surprisingly quite massive.

Here's the main entrance to Grand Central, which was the meeting place for all of us after we got our 4-5hrs of free time.

For lunch one day, a couple of us went into Dylan's Candy Bar and it was very colourful and fun-looking! We got food and and the desserts were all amazing.

This was the "Poppin' Cherry Coke Float" that was worth the $6 i spent on it. Eventually, I regretted buying the sweet thing, because wow did it make me feel ill. "Good" regret though.

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Times Square at night was amazing!

Lots of people, lights and random street acts!

Our last day consisted of a morning free time before flying home from Newark to Heathrow, and then a coach back up to Manchester. We walked past Grand Central Library and I bought a couple Pop! Figures from Barnes & Noble (U.S. equivalent to UK Waterstones?)

Overall, NYC was amazing, and I'd probably go back for some clothes shopping etc, because it seems that the majority of stores sell things for cheaper than if we bought them here in the UK.