You can just call me the Karaoke Champion (Khampion? I do love alliterations). After a perfect fresh lobster dinner we headed over to the bar for Karaoke night. I attempted Adele's Someone like you (forgot about those high notes - whoops) and Diva'd it up to I will survive resulting in a mini Dancefloor and standing ovation. Couldn't get Doug on the mic, which was unfortunate for me (could have made a great embarrassing video) but probably for the best as his vocal styling leave something to be desired.
Someone may have slept in Saturday morning and almost missed their Dive... but he did end up getting on the boat.It was a Double dive session which gave me a blissful 3.5hrs of Beach and Book time. D got back at 1pm, just in time for our last Jerk Chicken lunch :( We then mucked around in the pool for the afternoon before our final dinner at the fancy restaurant.
Our flight was at 1pm on Sunday but as we were 1.5hrs away from the airport we had to leave around 9.30am. We got up and had breakfast before heading to the beach to take a few final photos. Then off to Manhattan we went.
After 4hrs we landed at JFK and Douggie decided catching 2 subways was the quickest/easiest solution... Hmm not really. It was very difficult for us to buy Subway passes as there was no attendants and the machines wouldn't accept our Credit Card (kept asking for a zipcode and my trust 90210 wasn't working!!). We eventually made it to the city, dumped our bags at our midtown hotel and headed down to NoHo for Dinner at Saxon and Parole (Mum and Brians suggestion). We shared some calamari and had the most amazing burgers ever, definitely has a place in the top 3 burgers of my life. As it was 11pm and we'd been flying all day we headed home to our hotel via Times Square to unpack, rewind and ... become obsessed with a show on the discovery channel (honestly, Naked and Afraid is amazing).
Monday morning we both woke up a little under the weather but headed out in the 4 degree temps to do a bike riding tour. The tour was a 2hr Private Tour of Brooklyn/Willamsburg where we saw lots of art (and even got to do our own graffiti), ate lots of food (Doug willingly ate, and enjoyed, a vegan choc chip cookie) and explored the area. Then as we were a little under the weather we went home for a nap before the Ice Hockey.
We saw the Ice Hockey at the new Barclay's Centre in Brooklyn. We got great seats for around $40US as the stadium is quite small. It was great but unfortunetly no fist fights (my favorite part of the Ice Hockey). However they do have Tshirt Cannons and Doug caught a NY Islanders Tshirt!
Tuesday morning we both woke up very unwell, although somehow Douggie much worse than me. We called our Travel Insurer to see what doctors they recommended/what the procedure was and they advised us that there are basically no GPs in NY and we'd have to go the hospital. Well, let me tell you - if Doug is willing to go to a doctor, he is definitely sick enough to go to a hospital (last time he had glandular fever and ignored it for 6 weeks).
We headed over to Bellevue Hospital and walked into the ER, it was packed! Luckily after we waited 30mins just to be registered to see a Dr we were advised that as we are under 25 we are considered Pediatrics - winner as we were seen within the hour by a doctor and tested.
$2,500 later (thank god for insurance) we were told it was likely the Flu and nothing could really be done so we were prescribed fancy Panadol and sent home for bed rest... via pancakes... because pancakes and ice cream always make me feel better. We spent the rest of the day napping and ordered Chinese food in for dinner (Douggie's version of pancakes.... Chinese always makes him feel better). Think we will have an early night tonight to hopefully fix us up for more NYC Exploring!
- K x
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