New York - day 1

24 hours later, we've finally arrived in New York and it is freezing.

Not much happened today, just a whole lot of flying. There was a lot of turbulence from Brisbane to Los Angeles due to cloud patches. Ironic because the night before we flew out, Air Crash Investigations was showing on TV and the episode was about a crash caused by storm clouds. How very reassuring...

Obligatory plane shot enroute to LAX.

Unfortunately I was stuck in the middle aisle during our flight to New York so no scenic shots from the plane :(

New York is just incredible. It's everything I imagined it would be. Flying over I caught glimpses of the suburbs from the windows and all the houses were perfectly arranged with neat square backyards. Everything was covered in white because just yesterday, there had been a large snow fall! SNOW!! At one point during the plane ride I got super excited and shouted out -

'Is that snow?' In a really loud, high pitched voice. The lady sitting in the row across rolled her eyes when she realised that I wasn't a little kid. 

We landed at around 5pm so the sub was already down. The New York skyline is incredibly beautiful. Beats brisbane by 1000000!

Our taxi driver asked us what we wanted to see in New York. My parents said the usual things like - Wall Street and the Empire State Building. 

I said I wanted to go to walmart. 

There was a full half a minute of silence as our driver tried to contain in his laughter. 

Seriously though, for me it's the small differences which I fid so I interesting! In LAX airport during transit, I was just amazed at all the different candy bars available in America. 

There's a chocolate bar called - Baby Ruth. It's next to the Butterfingers bar.

And our accent makes us stand out so much too. I've already gotten quote a few stared in the road and it hasn't even been a full day yet!

So basically all we've done today is fly and settle into our hotel.

Our hotel in NY is pretty small but i guess that's what you'd expect from such a densely populated city. We're staying in the Soho/Chinatown district in Manhattan  and there's lots of really cool street art.

For dinner, I took my parents to an iconic New York food landmark - Katz deli. Katz is really famous for their MASSIVE meat burgers. So I probably wouldn't bring any vegetarian or vegan friends there.

So much meat! Ignore how jet lagged and disgusting I look :S

Father Zhou approves.

Day 1 has been pretty good. I've really enjoyed the brief exploring we've done.

Tomorrow we're hitting all the tourist spots and I can't wait!!!

P.S - my mum is your typical ay-shun mother. She listens to her friends and reveers the opinions of her Asian news papers a bit too much sometimes. She borrowed her friend's adaptor because 'it worked for her' - sigh...

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for us so we have no adapters to convert Australian plugs into American plugs. Except for 1 iPhone charger - because it's from China which uses the same plugs as America. So there goes my laptop. I'll be updating this blog from my phone, so you'll have to bear with really dodge quality mobile phone pics and typos courtesy of autocorrect. Oh well, it'll do :)  

Hope everyone has a wonderful holidays and I'll see you guys tomorrow!