Today when we went out for breakfast, we went to a diner. It had old posters advertising chocolate flavoured milkshake for 10c and banana splits for 25. My dad says that that's what America was like, years ago. Everyone went to diners and that's what they all looked like only the chair covers would normally be red and white; the diner we were in had blue and white covers. I ordered strawberry and banana waffles with maple syrup. In Boston, my aunt made everyone palm sized waffles but I got a waffle the size of a medium plate with strawberries and bananas on top! I drizzled it with the syrup but I didn't finish it because my dad said that because America's portions are bigger than ours, we should leave a bit behind. After breakfast, we went to Macy's. I bought a dress there on sale for $15. After that we went to look at other shops. I didn't get anything there, and then we went to an art museum called MoMa (Museum of Modern Art). My sister and I, and my mum were supposed to be shopping while my dad went to it but they changed plans, much to our annoyance. but the museum wasn't as bad as we thought it would be. Across the road was a shop called MoMA designs so we went in. It was all furniture and decorations and purses and bags based on the art in the museum. I liked the bags, but they were expensive, like one was $125, another $450! I found these cool purses/pencil cases. One was a circle shaped purse with a photo of a cookie on both sides. Another was a pencil case with a photo of a wrap on it. There also was a pizza slice that I bought to use as a pencil case next year. It was $8. Expensive, I know, but I thought that it was cool. After that we took the subway back to the hotel and here we are. Tonight we are going to Mamma Mia! at 8, so we are getting ready for that. Bye!

New York

I'm in New York now! it's very big. I'm in Manhattan. This morning my family took a three hour tour of the island. It was boring but we saw the Statue of Liberty. After that we went back to the hotel and bought tickets to Mamma Mia! on broadway. they were like, $190 a ticket but broadway shows are supposed to be very good! Yesterday when we arrived in New York we went looking around in some shops. We went into Toys R Us which I would have loved to go into, 4 years ago, but my mum and dad wanted to see it. I saw an American Eagle clothes shop so we went in. Nice stuff but they are expensive! Like a pair of denim shorts for $25 or a check shirt for $40! I haven't bought anything yet, but today was our sightseeing day, tommorrow is our shopping day. It is really hot here! Yesterday it was 101 degrees which is supposed to be the hottest in 10 years or something in New York. Today we saw Ground Zero and a memorial place. It had pictures and videos and times of what happened then and people whose friends or family members died on September 11 2001. And it told us about what they are building to replace the twin towers. They are building a memorial place with all the photos of the people that died in it. It was sad to see the photos and videos. My mum went up in the twin towers years ago when she went to New York. Then they were the two tallest buildings in New York. Now, the Empire State Building is the tallest. We saw that on our tour around the island. Here it's 11:37 pm so I'm going to go to sleep now!