First 2 Days!

After an emotionalish goodbye at the airport we started off on our trip round the world with our heads held high and our backs bowed low. We arrived at JFK airport 10 minutes earlier than expected even though the pilots had to deice the wings at Heathrow. We heard the fateful 'we have some good news and some bad news' ploy from the pilots twice during our flight. Last time we heard that our flight was delayed by eight hours so we were'nt too optimistic of the outcome. However our fears were short-lived and we arrived all in one piece. However we were slightly scarred by the image of the American flight attendants who checked us onto the flight pulling a rubber glove tight over his hand while grinning. This was the man who had to give us a full body search. Thankfully a body search does not include a full cavity search also (you have to pay extra for that). We arrived at the hostel at around 11 o'clock local time after an enjoyable transfer with a nice man from Brooklyn. One of the other prospective passengers refused to get on the bus as she said she didn't like air freshener. Good luck finding a cab without air freshener. After walking up the stairs to our dorm we opened the door to find an asian guy asleep on the bed only a metre away from me! We tried our hardest to be quiet but we ended up waking him. We climbed into bed and fell into a blissful sleep. However this would only last a few hours until we were woken by the combination of stifling heat and the sporadic snoring of a man with more sinus problems than we have money problems. Little sleep ensued after this. We were both awake by 4 o'clock however in an attempt to maintain civility with our roommate neither of us moved until seven when we both got up and got ready for a hard day in New York. We went downstairs to the reception and booked another night in a different room in an attempt to get a good nights sleep. we left the hostel around 8 to venture for the first time into New York. First we took a stroll round Central Park, here Henry befriended a squirrel. We bought our breakfast from a street vendor for me a blueberry muffin for henry an egg and sausage sandwich. Whilst wandering the upper East Side we chanced upon the Beautiful Guggenheim Museum. In the museum we were intercepted by a young girl who insisted on giving us a small tour of the first level and asked us as we were going 'what do you think progress is' this stumped us and thankfully she passed us on to the next person. I think they were trying to give us an idea of progress in action as each tour guide was older than the next. There was also an interesting feature on the groundfloor of s couple making out. They kept at this for at least the next hour. We left the Guggenheim enlightened and a little poorer. From there we ventured back into central park winding our ways along the paths looking at the different exhibits. One that particularly caught our idea was a sculpture of Alice in Wonderland. From Central Park we ventured into downtown Manhattan. We winded our way down 'The Avenue Of The Americas' until we decided to embrace our tourist nature and go find Times Square. Here we featured on a worldwide webcam so our parents could see we were alive (pictures on facebook). We slowly walked further downtown until we reached New York University. One of my favourite buildings along the way was the Flat Iron building in Madison Square Park. We then walked back to the hostel and arrived footsore and weary after walking at least ten miles. This is the end of our first post so we must say goodbye and don't be a stranger!