Day 12 - New York, New York

Thursday 5th October

Another hot and humid day in prospect.

After breakfast took our now familiar walk up to catch the bus.  Quick ride on the Midtown route to get us to the start of the 'Downtown' route, just outside a shop, on three floors, of anything M&M, in Times Square.

This definitely the most popular and busiest route so bit of a wait for a nice seat up top.  Bus travelled down Manhattan, through Koreatown district, Noho and Soho to the Civic Area.

Off the bus to walk over to the One World Tower.  Collected our tickets and went straight in to ride up the lift.  The lift went up to the 102nd floor in 60 seconds! but you would never know it.  3 floors of views and restaurants and gift shops!  Views without parallel, stupendous, almost like being in a plane, definitely a long way down.  Absorbed all we could and then returned down to ground level.

Outside to view the North and South 9/11 Memorial Pools, which were built on the footprint of the twin towers with the names of all those lost displayed around the 2 pools.

Then into the 9/11 Tribute Museum, a subterranean complex showing artefacts from the disaster, remaining parts of the foundations, stairs used by survivors to get out of the building and a display of photos of the victims.  They also had an area where they played recordings by family members who lost loved ones reading out their names.

On the way back to the bus stopped at Dunkin Donuts, we have been looking to stop at a Dunkin's for the last 2 weeks, another reminder of previous holidays to the USA.

Rode the bus back up via Wall Street, the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Little Italy and the United Nations Building.

UN Building

Dinner and back to our room for some NFL and to prepare for tomorrows transfer to QM2.