We were so tired when the alarm went off the next morning. We made sure we’d all packed and left the bags in the hotel office for the day. We checked out and made it to Blooms in time for breakfast ... just as they were putting the dinner menus out!
We walked to Grand Central Station and ordered our Shuttle bus tickets for that day. We then decided to hail a cab to take us to the NYC Museum. The museum had a King Tut Exhibition which we were all interested to see. It was amazing! We got to see some many items and relics which were found in Tut’s tomb along with many others. The design on the wooden boxes and tombs were awesome and still in great condition. There was so much information on when he was alive and his family connections, to when he died. There was footage of when Howard Carter found his tomb and when they were taking the things out of there.
An interesting fact for you now. A wooden box was found covered in gold and was surrounded by loads of symbols and relics. Inside the box was the first shrine and in that were three more, all decorated gold like the box. Inside the four shrines was the famous stone sarcophagus, which inside that contained three coffins. The last of the three coffins was made of solid gold and inside that was Tut’s mummy and his famous gold mask ..... amazing !!
Really awesome seeing everything just as it would have been in the 1300’s!
When we got out of there it was time for Mam and Dad to hail a cab and make their way to the airport. We literally caught one outside and said our very quick goodbyes, we watched them drive off. Me and Ben weren’t flying until later so we had a few hours left in NYC.
We made our way round to The Olive Garden Restaurant for some lunch. A very nice and cheap meal for it being in Times Square.
After stuffing ourselves we had a little walk around the shops making sure we had everything. Having our last walk around Times Square and seeing the Naked Cowboy, couldn’t believe it. We wanted Mam to see him and where was he when we needed him for Lisa and Stuarts Wedding Photos!!
We quickly called into the Toys R Us Store, its amazing !! It’s the biggest shop in the world (that’s not a fact, it just feels like that!) It even has a fair in it, a transformer and a dinosaur!! We even got to see Spiderman and Iron Man. Iron Man was the best ever but they wouldn’t let us take any photos of him ..... BOOOOO!!
We walked our last walk back to the Hotel and collected our bags. Carrying our heavy bags we struggled round the corner to Grand Centre Station and waited for the shuttle bus. We only had 20 minutes to wait for a bus to turn up.
An hour later and we arrived a JFK Airport. We got through security really quickly but were really disappointed with the number of shops there. It took us about 10 minutes to walk round all of them!! Although we did get to spritz while we were there and then went and chilled in the lounge.
3 Hours later and we were boarding the flight home, the end of our travel !! Our seats were called first and they were alright, although I had to have a weirdo sitting next to me......nowt fresh there, I always get em!
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