Friday 25th July

[09:06 US]

Linda's birthday today, so we spent the early morning with breakfast-in-bed and opening Linda's cards. This was followed by a hour long chat with Shirley.

Time was pressing, however, as our first planned outing today was at 11:30 where we're doing the Circle Line cruise.

[18:28 US]

We did a fast walk down to the Circle Line quay. We had to wait in line as it was very busy. However, luckily, we were the last people allowed on the boat, the next sailing was 4 hours later!

The weather was lovely and cool on the river and the views were very good as you can see in the photos below.

On our return, we caught a bus across town to the Rockerfeller Center. Here we visited the Top Of The Rock, observation on top of the GE building (70 floors up). It was a little hazy up there, but a far, far, cry from the freezing temperatures that we had last time we were there (March 2006).

Finally, we're back in the hotel and getting ready for our last night out - we're off to see Grease on Broadway.

[23:53 US]

Back in the hotel after a show and a bite to eat. We walked back through Times Square for the last time which is even more manic than during the day. Still, it'll look good on video, hopefully. Linda's started the packing already. We picked up a spare bag to come home with as our previous spare was damaged coming home in March. I think it'll be mostly full !