Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Day 7.1 - Christmas Day Antics

Merry Christmas to all of you and yours (even though it is now Boxing Day in Australia).


We woke up to a pristine, brisk, clear -6 degree day, but still no snow in sight. Whoa, she's cold alright.
 
Duplex Lads on the way to the subway at the start of the days outing.


No pressies this year for each other, so we had some breakfast and headed out for the day.  We caught the subway up to Columbus Circle and hopped off at W59.  Made our way across the bottom of central park on foot over to 5th Ave and briskly walked til we found the ice skating rink in Central Park.  Nick, Mack and myself gave it a red hot go.  Well the boys gave it a red hot go.  I had two pretty hard stacks in the first 3 minutes, so I did one loop, holding onto the edge/railing for grim death and then got off.

 
 
(boys in Central Park with a NYPD 3 wheel tuff mobile as made famous by Hamish and Andy during their New York Gap Year in 2011)
 
Pretty Central Park view of lake and bridge.
 
After the skating we hot footed it back through Central Park over to the West Side again and ducked into the infamous Empire Hotel, as luck would have it, at the bottom of the hotel was this relatively hoity toity restaurant called Ed's Chowder House, which is where we had Christmas Lunch. This place was really nice and not overly overpriced.  We were all happy with this find.


Hazza and I cut out from lunch as we had a hot date at Madison Square Garden to watch the New York Knicks play. But that is worth a whole other post of it's own.

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