Friday, June 18, 2010

Day Nineteen - Brooklyn Bridge

We slept better in our new comfy bed than that last few nights so it was nice to have a lay in. I popped out into the sunny and warm morning to get some milk and some free coffee from the hotel so we could have some cereal and fresh strawberries in our room. We didn't really have any plans for the day other than a trip to Macy's as a refund that was supposed to come back onto our Cash Passport hadn't as yet.

We took a walk up to 34th Street and the hugest Macy's you've ever seen. It was packed as it's sale season it seems and a browse around turned out to be fruitless with endless floors of sale crap stacked high. We found Customer Service and told them about our non-refund and we got directed to the Shoe Dept. Several people in the shoe dept we asked obviously thought this was a challenge beyond their meagre skills and told us to look for someone with a "red name tag" which denoted a Manager.
We found Roger, the red-name-tagged-manager who was helpful and sorted it out for us after about half an hour on the phone with the San Francisco store - one thing sorted for today.

The Brooklyn Bridge

In the half an hour wait, Jo managed to find some shoes to spend our refund on and a pair for me too both in the sale. The only thing was, one of my shoes was in the box, the other was *somewhere* on the sale stand. Now picture this....a shoe department the size of Greece, 25,000 neatly stacked shoe racks, all sorted into sizes in and orderly fashion. Now picture a F5 tornado going through the area and about 500 sale-hungry women all buzzing around like vultures. Do you think there is anyway to find the missing shoe? Not a snowflake chance in hell. I wasn't Cinderella today but as Jo was paying I did manage to find another pair, in my exact size, just what I was looking for next to the register! Meant to be? I thought so too.


The Manhattan Bridge from the Brooklyn Bridge

By then, it was time for lunch so off to Pret again for one of their yummy hot wraps.
We wanted to walk the Brooklyn Bridge today so we caught the Subway across to Brooklyn and took a stroll around, taking in the views of Manhattan from the Promenade before making our way to the bridge and walking across. You do get great views, especially on a day like today and the crowds were out as people battled with cyclists for a lane. The pedestrian walkway is above the cars and was flooded with tourists and locals alike.

Manhattan from the Brooklyn Promenade

After this, we took another walk around Soho and the village area popping in and out of shops that looked interesting and different. I bought a top and Jo almost bought some jeans but today it wasn't to be. We were exhausted with all the walking again today so when we found a great little noodle house we took our chance and stopped in for some dinner before catching the subway home and to relax for the evening. Only one more sleep until Jo's birthday tomorrow so it will be an early to bed for us tonight.

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