Another day & another crandberry muffin to start it. I really am starting to aquire a taste for coffee. There is hope for me becoming a true new yorker yet !

So we ended up getting of a stop to late to walk to the 'ground zero museum'.... So we ended up walking through Soho to the edge of the Meat packing district which turned out to be an awsome walk.

Started at Prada with the awsome concave arch with the models. We then walked up to Bleaker St which allowed us to find some amazing little boutiques & deli's, it was such a lovely place to live in terms of the area and the lifestyle.

We went into 2 deli's, Amy's Bread which had a vast variety of a bread and pastries and then Murrays appeared. It was like a place where people of come dine with me would go to make themselves look good. or .what i would imagine a french deli to look like. Absolutely full of cheese, salami, pastrami and chirizo...literally any type your could think of. The cheese straws were yummy !

We came across some little boutiques in the cutest little shops in this quaint area on Bleaker, including Ralph Lauren, Baby Marc Jacobs & Mulberry.

So eventually we got to a place where the museum should have been (9th Ave 14th street) and we couldnt see it! so we went into the mac store & he even lookd it up on the net with one of the stores computers & still didnt know what we were on about until he told us that it was down by the site. We had walked for an hour to place that didnt even exist !!

So we walked back along the route of the tour bus which had taken. It wasnt so bad though as i got to have a closer look at the 'impromtue' memorial by the local school children made from tiles which was so touching & beautiful.

We ended up missing two buses as they passed us so we decided to take our time and enjoy more of the sights. The mini arch de triumph with the christmas tree was beautifully lit up by the sun. Rhianna however was more interested in the different coloured colleflowers growing in the base of the trees along 5th Ave. In fairness they were slightly odd !

i introduced rhianna to Urban outfitters & it turned out to be a happy and joyess occasion where im sure a fine friendship will grow !It was here i gave up a life long dream of owning a pair of uggs & instead chose to invest in yet more stylish pieces, including a $ 68 toupe bag, a skirt for $8 and a brown hat for $4.99.

A delpaidated shoe warehouse captured our imaginatin and had it been busy would of made me think of a desiginer sale, however prices were high so we left the forigers to there work.

A mobile cupcake van certainly grabbed our hungry eyes. At $1.50 per mini cupcake & a continued wait for the bus, me having the breaking strain of a kit kat emerged, & i indulged in 2 red velvet & the creamiest butter icing as well as 1 choclate and vanilla. they were absolutely gorgeous !

Hopping onto the bus we had yet another crackers tour guide. VERY health and safety concious. Jumped off at Allen Street 14th street to go to katz Diner. (the process of ordering in pictures)

The grilled cheese sandwich was ok but sickly, chips & a cheescake which was yummy too but again so sickly. managed to finish the tour& then hopped off ready for uptown. Whilst we were waiting for the bus we went to the m&m store which was immense !absolutely filled to the brom with m&ms

Bus around uptown saw amazing, so glad we did it reallu otherwise we wouldnt have seen any of it. The tour guide was brilliant - a minister/ social/ youth worker/ lecturer of history/ a londerner and a keen jazz man !

Saw trump tower, twin towers in terms of the ones where jay z and beyonce live, yoko ownos house, american natural history museum, the guggenheim, harlam, the place where ella fizgerald was discovered and adopted, the public library, churches everywhere, the westside story playground where the fight happened and many more!

The tour guide pointed out a bear which sits in a window along 5th Ave which changes its dress ,according to season holiday or event occuring, it was a nice litle quirk to know something different from what others would know.

Coming to the end of the tour i realise her sounded like Bruce forsyth!

Between the night and uptown tour we went to american eagle which reminded me again of jack wills, we went to our chinese again for the last time :( it was very upsetting !we had a picture taken with the owner to capture the moment of satisfied yummy goodness

Whilst waiting for our bus we had touristy photos taken on times square which along with the ones we took on the night time tour were awsome !

Times square - hudson river - meatpacking district - ground zero - battery park - pier 17 - china town - manhatten bridge - brooklyn - skyline of manhatten ( the view from here was absolutely stunning i couldnt even begin to put into words how beautiful it was)- ladys mile - 5th Ave - 6th ave - macys !

the tour guide was yet another nutter, potentially drunk, throw in a smokers cough and excentricity at its best and you get him ! Finished off the night with the hit show Jersey shore !good old fashioned american trash telly with schnookie, ronnie viny sam and the rest !