We are in the most bizarre hotel!

We certainly are in the most bizarre hotel! The Gershwin in New York. I read about it in the Guardian and thought it sounded interesting. It is but it's perhaps a little too interesting! I will explain more later! We arrived in New York early this morning. Cliff and I got up around 4:30 so that we could watch the ship come into port. It was great. I have lots of good pictures which I will post at a later date. We got off the ship around 10:30 and got through customs and immigration much more quickly than I would ever have imagined. I did have my finger prints taken (index finger of both hands). They didn't take Cliff's. I wonder why? We took a taxi in to the city and got to our hotel just before noon. Of course, the room wasn't ready so we left our luggage and went to Penn station to sort out our train tickets for Wednesday. What an experience walking through the streets of New York. Such a buzz. It's a far more multi-cultural than London. The section we went through on the way to the station reminded me of Aleppo. We are not far from the Empire State Building and Maceys. I don't think we'll go up the Empire State Building but we will visit Maceys. We're also going to try and walk up to Central Park. We had lots of plans but I realize now that we need more time. We wanted to go to Coney Island before it closed next year but I don't think that will happen. Ah well! And Emma, I haven't seen any Statue of Liberty statues yet. Would a t-shirt do? With the statue on, I mean. Actually, I haven't seen any of them either! We've found a diner for dinner tonight so at least we'll be able to check that off the list.