Top of the Rock viewing at the Rockefeller Centre, NYC March 7, 2009

This would be the final installment or the final post for our trip to New York 2009. We went to the Top of the Rock Observation Deck as we missed that in our previous trip to New York.

At 850 feet above sea level, we were at the crossroads of commerce and culture, atop an art deco masterpiece and monument to progress. It was orginally opened over 70 years ago, the design of the deck was inspired by great ocean liners of the era, the perfect metaphor for floating above New York with unobstructed views in all directions.
A view overlooking the famous Central Park, Central Park Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Zoo, Carnegie Hall, and the former Deutsche Bank.

Magnificent view from the top- looking at the cathedral.

Both of us all in smiles. We love NYC!

Empire State Building.

Look closely and see if you can identify Ernst & Young NYC office?

On our way back to our next stop! :) Can't wait to go back to NY again!

New York, New York, March 6, 2009 Part Two

After lunch at Maze by Gordon Ramsay at the London hotel, we took a stroll and headed off for some shopping in NYC.

I was so excited when I saw Manolo Blahnik store filled with all the beautiful shoes! I wanted to go in but Laughton didn't quite like the idea as he didn't want me to end up buying shoes from there. (after the number of pairs of shoes that I currently have) But I came up with a plan, I will try to wear all my shoes as frequent as I can, start reducing my shoes collection and then it will be time and space for some new ones! ;)
At Tiffany & Co.

Pleased after getting my matching necklace to go with my bracelet. Outside the Apple store.

At the Trump Tower.

Along the Fifth Avenue.

Night scene of NYC.

Part of my MAC haul on the first day of shopping at Henri Bendel New York! Yay!

New York City, March 7, 2009

We began the next day by walking out of our hotel and just realized that the huge departmental store was just behind our hotel and it was Macy's! Haha, we've been here before last year, just that during our first trip to NYC was sort of confusing for me. I was not able to put together the map of NYC and the second trip this time, was much better as everything seemed to make more sense. :)

Gloomy NYC in winter.. Behind me, Bryant Park.

Taking snapshots as we walked to the Rockefeller Building, it was probably like 15-20 streets but since the weather was cooling, the walk was actually quite pleasant as we stopped at a couple of places to look at stuff until we reached the Rockefeller Building.

We found a GODIVA shop in the Rockefeller Building and I could not resist the temptation so we bought some chocolate truffles and they were really awesome, but really expensive! Look at the mouth-watering truffles being displayed..

Before digging into our truffles..

We bought champagne, raspberry and strawberry banana flavoured truffles and they were really good!

The famous Magnolia Bakery and the guy making cupcakes.

Famous cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery, made famous as seen as "Sex and the City".

The red velvet cupcakes were still in the oven, so we bought the chocolate and pumpkin spiced cupcakes for snacks. They were really delicious!!

Look at the boy enjoying his cupcakes. Told you so it was good!

We took photos of the Winter Garden theatre where we saw Mama Mia here on Broadway last year. It was really spectacular performance!

The famous Winter Garden theatre showing Mama Mia. Actually, still showing Mama Mia..

The world's largest M&M store in NYC.

Here is Elmo saying Hello to me and he was more than happy to let me take a picture of him! Then I saw Mickey & Minnie saying Hello. Wow, I thought we were in Disney!

Bryant Park in winter..

New York Public Library.