The day before Thanksgiving we took the train from New Haven to Grand Central in New York City. The last few times I went to NYC we used the subway exclusively but this visit we were all cold and tired and we didn’t go on the subway (worlds shittest underground) and only used Uber – they turn up instantly and as there was 4 of us it almost wasn’t worth getting the subway anywhere. Bronte’s boyfriend Chris is a farmer from Wiltshire so it was pretty funny watching him stare around at the massive buildings.
We stopped at a Japanese restaurant.
And after that we went to the top of the Empire State Building to see the city lit up at night.
Now somewhere that day Bronte and Kim must have picked something up because they were both super sick that next and the next day and then Chris was sick the day after that (I was fine) which wasn’t timed great as we turned up to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the city.
We got there early and it was absolutely packed and freezing cold at 17f (that’s -8C for you metric chaps).
We were all feeling the cold, perhaps slightly less than these cheerleaders.
Kim, who wouldn’t stay at the hotel for fear of missing out, kept having to scamper off to vomit in a flower bed.
And Bronte managed to keep down the vomit but had forgotten her gloves and just sort of gave up miserably and sat on her handbag.
I had a lovely time though… after a little while we gave it up as a bad job and missed the rest.
And we had to leave Bronte and Chris in the city for the rest of their vacation and make our way back to Connecticut, poor Kimmy slept almost all of the way home and I had to drive her car back but it was still lovely to have my sister and Chris to visit… even if they were all sick! Back home when recovered Kim made my belated cake construction – the theme this year was The Sims. Hmm…
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