The Home of Marky Homez: More to See in NYC (Part 2)

Friday 2/12 (local)

I mentioned that the tour was very informative and it was, no joke. On the tour our attention was drawn to Bono's residence, Yoko Ono's residence, Madonna's old residence, the Dakota hotel (where John Lennon was shot), Regis' work residence, the shooting location of Will and Grace, and much much more. There were so many facts that i've forgotten most of them :).

The Uptown Loop tour passed through several New York City points of interest, besides points of modern pop/celebrity culture. We as a sightseeing tour group passed through the largest gothic cathedral in the world - St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Apollo Theatre, the resting place of General Ulysses Grant, Harlem, and Museum Row.

I got off at one of the stops on Museum Row, that stop was the closest one to the Guggenheim Museum. The Guggenheim Museum has to be one of the most known museums in the world, right up there with the Louvre and the Smithsonian Institute. Unfortunately for me the museum was undergoing a rennovation - but there was still an exhibition on. The exhibition showing was Russia!, a collection of Russian artwork through time. Probably not the greatest collection of works around the world but I learnt much - so it wasn't all that bad.

To top off an intense two days of sightseeing one more tour was taken. This tour was a special tour only during the December/January period, when all of New York City (or large tranches of it) are illuminated by Christmas lights. Unfortunately for me it was a 2+ hour trip. I thought it would be a quick drive around Midtown as that's where Macy's and the Rockerfeller Centre were. It was unfortunate because I needed to go to the bathroom about half way. OMG.

Lesson for everyone - before doing tours and things like that make sure you go to the bathroom! Even if you don't really need to go at the time. To finish off the story and the day i'll say that I didn't make it to the end of the trip. I got close but I didn't finish it off. I made it to the last leg of the tour (Rockerfeller to Times Square)... but I had to get off at the Rockerfeller and bolt to the dunny. LOL. Almost ran straight into the female toilets as well (as the two bathrooms were in completely different locations and signage wasn't so obvious). The trip was great though.

The night lights tour drove around a fair slice of the island of Manhattan. We went through Broadway, over to the Chrysler buliding and Grand Central Station, past the Empire State Buliding, up to Columbus Circle, and back to Macy's and the Rockerfeller Centre. I'm sure that there were more locations but bear in mind that for half of the trip I was desperate to use the loo.

Anyhow, that's pretty much it for the day. Quite alot to take in for a day - information overload. One more day in America left (and it's not even a full day).