USA Day 4: Cupcakes

Our mission for today was a Cupcake Tour, in and around Chelsea. We headed off to the subway, and promptly caught the wrong subway, and ended up at Long Island City. We turned around, and eventually arrived at Chelsea.
The first Cupcake shop was very cute, and the cakes and coffee was delicious. We then made our way to the next stop, which was in Chelsea Markets. The marketplace was great, we looked in a few clothes shops, and had really yummy soup for lunch. We skipped actually eating the cupcakes this time, as we were still digesting the first lot. The next shop was the Magnolia Bakery, which was featured in an episode of Sex and the City, and therefore had a line out the door, had a delicious red velvet cupcake, which was enjoyed by all. There were street markets happening in Chelsea at the time, so we did a bit of browsing and shopping. We headed towards the next cupcake shop,  which was down the road from NYU, so there were heaps of students around the area. Again, we didn't make it in to the actual cupcake shop, instead we had juices at Whole Foods, and did some shopping at Forever 21. Exhausted, we headed home on the subway.

USA Day 3: In a New York state of mind

Our ride from JFK to the Upper East Side (where we're staying) took about 45 minutes, then it took almost another 45 to drag our bags up three flights of stairs. Our apartment was bigger than we were expecting, and very homely. We dropped our stuff and went for a stroll down York Ave.

After a quick (four hour) nap back at our apartment, we headed out for dinner at the pizza place down stairs, which was absolutely delicious, and the slices were huge. Still toured and jet lagged, we had an early night. 

USA Day 2: Travel day

We headed down stairs for breakfast in the hotel before packing up, checking out, and heading to the airport. One observation about Hawaii was that nobody is ever in a hurry. Everyone here goes on 'Island time'. This was frustrating at times, as everything was disorganised, but it's very relaxing, and it's hard to be angry in Hawaii. After a nine and a half hour plane ride, we finally arrived in NEW YORK!

USA Day 1: Hawaii

Today was a travelling day, we flew out of Brisbane Airport at 6.40pm on Tuesday, and arrived at Honolulu Airport at 7am on Tuesday, Hawaii time. Longest day ever, right? Our plane was delayed, so we had some time to look around. After checking in to our hotel, we headed to the outlet mall, got our first American Starbucks, and had sushi for lunch. After getting off the bus too early, and having to walk what felt like a thousand kilometres in the Hawaii sun and humidity, we finally arrived back at our hotel, and had a rest. We headed in to the tourist area for dinner, and stumbled upon a food market. We bought some Hawaiian Island ginger beer, and charmed the shop keeper with our Australian twang ('I love your accent, where are you guys from?'). We also ate a delicious Hawaiian wood fire pizza, which had no pineapple, by the way (they're doing it wrong! ). After some ice cream, we successfully caught the bus home.