New York part 3

Central Park was the first stop for our day. The first thing we saw in Central Park was a frozen lake! It was brilliant, testing out how thick it was and gazing at it (give us a break, we hadn't seen one before) while all the locals stared at us.
Next to the lake was what we thought was a huge pile of snow, but a guy walking past told us it was where they dump the shaving from the ice rink next door, but it was snow to us :)
Central Park didn't look so good because there were no leaves on the trees, but it was nice to be able to walk though a place with no traffic noise and lots of trees and bushes and things.

Esther wanted to look at some design related museums, but in the end we only made it into one of them because one didn't exist, one only had one exhibit on (which they let us see for free) and the other was being refurbished.

We spent quite a while looking through FAO Schwartz as it was a pretty great toy store. Esther bought herself a toy kitten because her father won't let her have a real one (apparently he's "allergic" or something, whatever Geoff!).

Running out of time to do typical New York things, we bought some tasty big pretzels from a street cart that Esther didn't like and I loved, bought a HUGE piece of cheesecake (when I say huge, Esther and I just ate the thing between the two of us) from a shop who's name I can't remember right now but lots of famous people go there for food, and then took a look around Grand Central Station. On the way to the station some dude hit me with his newspaper and wanted to fight me, which was a bit weird.
The station was really nice. The inside was all decorated and adorned by a HUGE USA flag (the yanks love their flags, I spied 19 on one short bit of street alone!). Some dude with a camera started talking at us because he was a 'professional' photographer and we were taking photos. He gave us his card and after checking online we found he wasn't that good.

That night we had to repack because the next day was Salt Lake City.