Over a year later, I finally was able to return to the US. I was still with the same man, but things were pinched and struggling with such distance and no visits between. I knew this would be my last trip, and I wanted to make it count. The flight there was packed this time and I was a bigger girl so it was not a comfortable 17 hours at all. Phil and I met in LA this time, and spent time looking at the Hollywood sign, Grauman's Chinese Theatre with it's hand and footprints of the stars, and all the stars on Hollywood Boulevard. Only in LA do you stop and chat and have photos taken with a Captain Jack lookalike, and see Darth Vader crossing the street. We had an absolute ball at Madame Tussauds in LA, was awesome. I really wanted to bring the Leonardo Di Caprio figure home with me! Swoon!
We also went and did the Warner Brothers studio lot tour seeing sets for True Blood, Jurassic Park, Friends, Gilmore Girls (the whole reason I went!), Pretty Little Liars, Lois and Clark and various movies such as Spiderman, Annie, Muppets etc. The garage with all the famous movie cars was so cool as well and we saw the set of Molly and Mike.
We went to a baseball game to see the Dodgers play. No idea WHO they played or even who won now but that was fun! And we made a day trip down to San Diego and back to lunch with a friend. Venice Beach was an adventure in and of itself! Weird. And an enormous pancake brekky with a dear friend was lovely. That was it for LA, I wouldn't hurry back to be honest. It was boring in the end. After this, we flew to New York City for a few days. Now NYC I would absolutely return to. I loved it. I was non stop for the 3-4 days and barely scratched the surface. It was amazing!
In NYC, we saw the wall street bull and the touching 9/11 tribute museum. They were part of the way through building the new tower and memorial and that was interesting to see as well. The lines for a cruise to the Statue of Liberty were enormous and it was raining so we skipped that and saw her from a distance instead. We then hung out in Times Square for a bit. That place blew my mind! Busy vibrant and interesting endlessly. Even at night, after a late attendance of The Lion King on Broadway, the place was packed shoulder to shoulder. I went to the top of Rockefeller Place and admired views of Central Park and the Empire State Building.
Central park was HUGE. The squirrels! The bagels! The lakes! The movie scenes! The Statues (especially the Alice in Wonderland one) The horses! The John Lennon memorial! It was all so beautiful. I spent ages in the Met museum looking at amazing art, likewise MoMA. Van Gogh's, Picasso's, Monet's, Poussin's, Bourdon's, Matisse's... Just amazing.
And what would a trip to NYC be without a stop off at Tiffany on 5th Avenue for some bling?! That trip went far too quickly. I bid the man farewell (for what did indeed turn out to be the last time) and flew home to my darling babies again.
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