We’ve had a fun day today.

We slept in until 8:00am this morning and by the time we got Jackson out of bed and everyone was ready for the day it was 9:30am when we got to a diner for breakfast. There’s a few places within a block or two walk which will be good to go to for a quick meal. This morning’s breakfast took only 8 minutes to be served after we’d ordered it. ( I dont make a habit of timing how long it takes food to be served – it was just that this morning i’d just told Kylie the time before the waiter took our order and we couldnt believe how quickly our order arrived & no – we weren’t at a mcdonalds)

After breakfast we caught the subway to SoHo, Jackson loves the subway! After we’d been on the train for a while, I had to play a little joke on Jackson and tell him the next station was Cannon Hill. He looked at me as if to say “Noooooo!”, but he thought it was funny after I told him I was joking.

SoHo was nice, there seemed to be a lot of roadworks going on and the the roads and pathways were a lot narrower than midtown and it was a bit bumpy with the stroller…. There were some good stores down SoHo way. We walked up and down quite a few streets and went into many stores – the ones we bought things from were Ben Sherman, Ted Baker, the Scholastic Store (a great kids book shop) and Kenneth Cole.

We caught a cab back from SoHo at about 230pm and had a late lunch at one of the places near the hotel. We had a restful couple of hours at the apartment and then we went to Macy’s – a large department store. We caught the subway to and from Macy’s, which is only one stop south of our apartment (but quite a few blocks).

We had a few “moments” with Jackson and the subway where he thought we were going to miss the train, or we werent going fast enough to get to the train… at one point, kylie and jackson had swiped their metro cards and gone through the gate and when I swiped my card, the gate didnt work and then when I re-swiped the card, the gate showed a message that the card had recently been used. I couldnt get through… I was worried that Kylie and Jackson were on the other side of that gate and I couldnt get through – that they were on the station and I wasnt – that Kylie COULD go to Macy’s with no adult supervision… Jackson was worried that I was on the other side of the gate and couldn’t get through… he wasn’t worried that we were seperated, he was worried that I was slowing them down and he might miss the train… it’s nice to be loved….

Kylie had a tip that if we went to an information counter in Macy’s, as an international visitor we would get 10% off purchases. Macy’s also had 30% off a lot of their stock – so we were shopping at 40% off… how could we NOT buy stuff?!

A scoreboard update on the purchases to date will come through tomorrow… I think I (chris) might be keeping up with Kylie at the moment – however, I’m more a sprinter (an unfit one) and Kylie is I am sure pacing herself…. still no shoes for Kylie though!!

The weather is pretty chilly here – a minimum of 6 degrees celsius tonight and up to a maximum of 13 tomorrow, for a minimum of 4 Saturday night! The weather for the NFL game I am going to on Sunday is currently forecast as fine – but a chilly 13 degrees celsius…

We’re off on a guided tour of New York with a tour guide / photographer. this was Kylie’s birthday present from myself and Jackson – it should be fun and we will have some nice shots of us as a family in New York.

Tomorrow afternoon / evening sometime Kim and Ian arrive.

having a ball – lots of photos, just not much time to get them off the camera and posted here….

Hope all is well at home. We’re not missing the election carry on – but we will be going to the consulate here in New York to vote… what a fun morning out! The news on the wire about the election over here is – nothing. I havent heard anything about kevin07 or Little Johnnie since we got to the US of A.

bye for now.

Chris, Kylie & Jackson