Day 2 Midtown

7th Jan

We started off at 8am for breakfast downstairs, which involved muffins and tea. Around 10 me, Alix and Abbie went off to the the FIT museum - without following the rest of the group! The displays inside were interesting but I think an hour there was enough. On the way to Times Square we walked past a museum called 'The Museum of sex' which called for several photos and countless innuendos. Times Square was amazing, the amount of adverts crammed into one space was crazy. We took a few pictures then ventured into Sephora, which has the most amazing collection of make-up. Luckily inside they had the 'Kat Von D' range which I had been searching for ages. The card system over here is bizarre as they never ask for PIN just a signature or just to swipe the card.

Just before the Rockefeller we saw a massive ferris wheel in the Toys R Us and decided it had to be done. The best part was we were the only people on the wheel and it went all the way up through the levels of the shop.

The Rockefeller was next on the agenda and we got tickets to go to the top. The view from the roof was incredible. It was such a clear day as well, seeing central park bang in the middle of all the crazy skyscrapers was so strange but really cool. Also up top was a special light room where you ran around and the lights on the walls would follow you around. Which of course led to us frantically running around and taking videos. Lunch was a McDonald's, which had to be done at some time. I think this was the point that really confirmed that Americans have a completely different concept of the word 'large' to us. I foolishly agreed to a large meal, which turned out to be enough to feed about 10 English people.

After lunch we made our way to 5th avenue, we spent hours looking into some fabulous shops such as Chanel, Prada, Juicy Couture, Burberry and Gucci.

Also randomly down one of the streets we walked past the creator of Lost, JJ Abrams, which was pretty cool. Especially as I had just watched 'Cloverfield' before I came to New York.