Our honeymoon was in New York City and we had an amazing time. In hindsight, though, we could have done with a relaxing honeymoon after our frantic last few weeks with all the preparations for the wedding. But, New York won’t let the weary rest, there’s simply too much to see and do.
Our 8 hour flight from Heathrow was okay, but there was a moment when the flight attendant asked if there was anyone on board who is a doctor! Fortunately, it turned out to not be a serious matter. Once we landed and gathered up our bags, we set off to find a taxi cab, when suddenly, this bloke pounced on us insisting he was a real taxi driver and he’d take us to our hotel. He actually grab my bags away from me and proceed towards his taxi. We did our due-diligence about New York with all the guide books, and the most we would be charged to go to Manhattan was $50 US, this guy wanted $70 and said all the guide books were wrong. We wrestled our bags back and headed to the taxi queue. He yelled at us to whole way! Welcome to New York!
It was hot in New York and by the time our taxi driver dropped us off at one of the top New York hotels where we had reservations, we were sweating up a storm. We were so thankful to enter the lobby of our hotel where there was air-conditioning. We basically stayed in our room for most of the day and then most of the night. But, the next day, we hit the pavement ready to experience the Big Apple. We weren’t disappointed, except for losing one of our tickets for the open-top bus tour, $60 US down the drain. To bad really, we enjoyed the open-bus tour. We went to see a couple of Broadway plays: Mary Poppins and Matt’s Choice; that last one wasn’t my choice after seeing it.
On our last night, we were at a pizzeria and I broke down in tears when they played our first dance song from the wedding; all the wait staff was giving my new husband the evil eye wondering what he did to make me cry, which made us both laugh.
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