Exploring the Big Apple by Max carter

14TH MARCH 2009
Today after staying the night in Syracuse we got up early and headed to the airport. On the way we got a bit lost and our car lights stopped working. You could say mum and dad were more than a little stressed. We finally got there and parked our car. It was about ten past six in the morning. We went inside and went to the security check. Mum was wearing a bulky coat and got frisked. They thought she had a bomb or a gun or something dangerous. We got on the plane. It was the smallest plane I had ever been on. It was rocky and bumpy and my ears were popped. The flight made our voices go spacey. I started singing and this person looked at me. I was just thinking; "mind your own business". We landed in New York and took a cab to the hotel. It is called Days Inn.

The first thing we did was take an hour walk to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. On the way there was a three story candy shop that made the Tilba Lolly shop look tiny. We each got a big lolly pop. It was called Dylan’s Candy Store. At the waxworks works there was George Bush and dad took a picture of me pretending to throw a shoe at him.

There were nine floors of wax works like the hulk, The Rock, Ghandi, The pope, Barrack Obama, John Travolta, Pele, Wayne Gretzky and so many, many more. They were so life like you could turn around and look at them and take a while to figure out if it was a waxwork or a real person. After that we went on a tour bus. It went for hours and we got off at the Rockefeller Centre. We were going to on the NBC tour. It was at the NBC studio were they made Friends and Seinfeld. But it was over. We rode the rock to the top and saw the Empire State building. After that we went to the world Nintendo store. It was three stories high. We then went for dinner at Planet Hollywood. It was really nice. They had lots of movie props there. We walked out on Broadway and looked around afterwards. It was amazing. It was all lighted up and cool. We hailed a cab and went to the hotel. I watched TV to ten O’clock and then went to bed after a long and tiring day!

15TH MARCH 2009
Today I was awakened by our heater, It is really loud. I got up and watched Tom and Jerry. After, we went down to breakfast. For breakfast I had some muffins and bagels. After that, we headed to the underground subway. We got off at the wrong station and went back on. We got off at the World Trade Centre, the site of nine eleven. I got my picture taken with some fire fighters. We went to the bull. It is the symbol of the financial success. You kiss its arse and it is supposed to make you rich. It showed it’s testicles, so I got a picture kicking them. It was funny. After we went to the sports museum of America. I was looking forward to it but it was closed. So we headed to the docks and went to Liberty Island. It had the Statue of Liberty on it. We walked around and looked at it. We went to the gift shop and bought a statue of liberty hat. We then went to Ellis island. That was where the immigrants used to come. We went back on the ferry to NYC.

We then went to a bodies exhibition. It had all these dead bodies on display and explaining how the human body works. There were dead people and the men still had the penis intact. It was disgusting. Also the scrotum had rotted away so the testicles hung to the side. It was gross. They also chopped up the bodies and showed the different parts. Yuck. Nick was a bit scared. At the end you wrote a comment and Nick wrote “Yuck!”

After this tour, we caught a bus to the Empire State Building. There we rode to the top and looked over NYC. We also had a virtual tour. Our seats rocked and shook and everything. It was pretty cool. It was like being at the movies. After we went to dinner at this Italian buffet place. It cost seven dollars per pound. I had two pounds of food. I got to the table and Nick knocked my drink over all my food and mum. I had to eat my dinner soaked in lemonade. YUCK!!! We headed home in a taxi. We had to squeeze dad in the front and the four of us in the back. It was really tight. We got back and went to bed at ten O’clock. Everyone was tired and we went to sleep pretty quickly.

16TH MARCH 2009
Today I was woken up by dad at eight O’clock to the sound of Nick watching Pokémon. We went down to breakfast. I had some Danishes and muffins and bagels. After we headed to the underground subway. They smell like the sewer. We jumped and went to 41st street. We saw this guy being arrested for drugs or something. We went through a shopping mall and out into NYC.

We went to the museum of natural history. We had limited time so we only spent about two hours there. You may think that is a long time but this place was huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was four stories high and really long; at least over three hundred metres. There were dinosaurs and animals of all sorts. There were exhibits of how people used to live. It was pretty interesting! We had morning tea, then got back on the bus and then went to the Guggenheim museum. It was a museum of art. Some of the art was pretty crap. One was a stack of paper and another was a black sheet of paper. It was pretty weird. We then went to the cafe and got a smoothie and cookie. After we went and had dinner at an Irish restaurant. I had barbecued ribs. They were delicious. Then we went to Broadway and caught a bus for the night time tour of New York and Brooklyn. We saw the Brooklyn Bridge and all the New York sites. It was pretty good. We got home and went to bed at about ten thirty.

17TH MARCH 2009
Today I got up at 20 to eight. I watched some cartoons, got dressed and went downstairs for breakfast. First we were going to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was closed till Thursday so we will go then. After we walked around the shops. Mum bought an illegal handbag from a lady in a secret room in her shop. Then we walked around the corner and Emily and Mum had to get into the back of a boarded up van. Dad, Nick and I had to wait at the corner about twenty feet away. Dad wasn’t very happy about it and was a bit worried. Emily and mum eventually got out with Em carrying a Coach handbag. It turns out it probably was stolen and was possibly a genuine one. So that was a bit dodgy.

We got the bus on Broadway and went to the police museum. It was really good and interesting. It had all information on past prisoners including Al “Scarface” Capone. They had a siren you could press and it was really loud. There were also video’s of nine eleven when the plane crashed. It was pretty sad.

After that, we took a bus to the seaport. We then looked around the seaport and took a few pictures and hopped back on the bus until we got to the docks. We were going to go on a speed boat but it was closed so we are going to go on it later. So we headed to the Intrepid museum. It was an old air craft carrier that was commissioned in nineteen forty three. There was a helicopter pilot simulator and it was cool. After we headed to a place called Mars 2112. It was a restaurant. You went into a lift which was a space ship simulator, then went into a room that was like mars. There were people dressed up as aliens. I got a 17 dollar meal which also got you a five dollar card at the arcade. I played some air hockey, lost my money on a pick up thing and played a motor bike racing game. After we went to Broadway and bought tickets to Mama Mia for tomorrow at eight O’clock we hailed a cab and went to the hotel. We went to bed at about ten thirty.