Friday 23 January 2009

More flying surprises planned for today – we walked to Heliport (Pier 6) and took flight over Manhattan, over Govenors Island, Liberty Island and Ellis Island and over Central Park and the Hudson River (we saw the barge which was recovering the second engine from the flight which had come down in the river just a week before – oooh glad I wasn’t on that flight!). It was an amazing flight with crystal clear visibility (the best flying day they had had for ages – must be the fact that they had me on board hee hee!) It felt so strange though to be hovering around – and no wings on the aircraft!! And once again I had my picture taken with the pilots – think I should start charging for this!!
Afterwards we took the ferry to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty – wow that’s so huge too! We then had sushi for lunch (hmmm not sure I liked that!) and later we went to Peter Luger’s for dinner (which is at one end of Broadway-in Brooklyn- not the end in Manahattan but we found it in the end!) It’s all eating over here (I’ll be putting on weight!!) – but they do have one of the best steaks in the world!!