Coney Island

This morning we went for breakfast at Clinton Street Bakery, a bakery that Plan 9 had recommended as the place they aspire to be.

They were having a pancake week, so I got to have apple pancakes with walnuts and maple syrup.

To burn off breakfast, we decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. It was such a clear day and you could see for miles.

From one side of the bridge we could see the Statue Of Liberty all the way along to the Empire State Building.

When we got to the other side of the bridge, we could see our future dream home – the amazing Dumbo clock tower penthouse. It looks sooooo pretty.

We then jumped on the subway to somewhere I’ve always wanted to go… Coney Island!

It was even weirder in the snow, as the boardwalk was completely deserted. The fun fair doesn’t reopen until March but it was still fun to see. I wished we could have seen Shoot The Freak, “with live human targets”.

Tom made a snow angel on the beach.

I managed to buy a Coney Island mermaid tshirt, which I can wear with my tail to Mardis Gras and then we warmed up in Nathan’s, which turned out to be quite a famous cafe.

Tom ordered more root beer than we could drink and that was only the medium size.

We then headed down to a port, where we were hoping to catch a ferry back in to Manhattan but they don't sail in the winter.

We did get a nice view though.

We headed back to Manhattan and had a look around Grand Central Terminal which is such a lovely station.

We were advised that the view was way better than from the Empire State Building because you can actually see the Empire State Building. You could see all the way to Coney Island and I tried to take a photo through the binoculars.

You could also see down Central Park all the way to The Bronx on the other side of the roof.

We stayed for an hour so we could watch the sunset. The city lit up and looked so pretty at night.

Afterwards we went on the hunt for food in Times Square. I managed to get a Twizzler pen from the Hershey store.

We went for dinner at an awesome place with the tagline “we cure our own corn beef, our chicken soup cures everything else”. The coleslaw was amazing and I don't even like coleslaw.