New York New York!

Our flight to NYC arrived early, but in typical US fashion it was another 2 hours before getting out into the subway...and further waiting until our excitement was completely depleted before arriving in Manhattan (thanks to underground subway no incredible views). We arrived to drunken patrons outside bars at 1am in the morning.But we made up for it the next day.

First thing in the morning we headed for Katz's, the famous deli where in "When Harry met Sally", Sally had a great time! We had a great time also, but not in the same way.  We blissed out on the massive pastrami on rye, charged up with an incredible amount of beef, and pickles on steroids!

We then visited ground zero, where new construction on a grand memorial site was in progress. We went to the memorial museum where the scale of the impact of 9-11 was profound.

We then found our way past city hall across the Brooklyn Bridge where we saw the statue of Liberty and Woody Allen's Manhattan vista from a distance.  We made our way to Grimaldi's Pizza under the bridge in BROOKLYN...where we had to line up for the privilege of trying the "best" pizza in NY. It was pretty damn good.

Afterwards we hit SoHo for some serious shopping.  There was the most chic, sheek, industrial geek fashion shop in the world, all the grey and black making us feel sloppy in our red and black attire (we did have one color right). But new shoes later, both of us walking out of the shop with them on and ditching our old Bijagua mud encrusted ones, we were ready for some comedy at the Gotham Comedy club, highlight was Jim Gaffigan, making us LOL.

We then hit Times Square and blissfully freaked out with all the pretty lights. What a day!

The next day we strolled through east village and lower east side and ate some iconic pumpkin pie and pecan pie.  Yum!

We then wandered around Central Park and watched the ice skating (it just wasn't roller derby!)

We felt like salmon swimming upstream as we walked through a sea of people on 5th avenue looking at the Christmas window displays in Tiffany's, Macy's etc.

For our last night in the Big Apple we paid to line up then line up some more, go up 70 stories and line up some more for the incredible vistas from the "Top of the Rock" at the Rockefeller Centre... Then we lined up to leave!

Beautiful city, but it's time to go back to Mexico... Vamos a la playa!