12th July

Well here it is, the last day.... It's been a good trip, if a bit hecktic. Then again thats NYC for you. It's one of the best cities in the world to visit, but I don't think I could do more than a week at a time. I couldn't take the pace of the place for longer than that.....another sign that I'm getting old.... LOL. Yesterday was a good day, spent another couple of hours in the pool with Aims, then John booked an hour for me, him and Nic on the golf simulator. Nic didn't make it due to an over indulgence of vodka the night before....lol. She informs me that she's never drinking vodka again, we'll see.... LOL. Anyway the golf was a good laugh, we played the Belfry.... God is it a hard game. But John is a good teacher and he showed me the basics, so I can now hit a ball at least. I am seriously thinking about taking it up when we get home....watch this space.... LOL.

11th July

Once again spent time with Aimee in the pool in tbe morning. But this time in the outside pool, were I got burned on my head and shoulders,luckily it's not to painful. Later on Nic, John and I entered the golf competition on the golf simulator, I'll just say we didn't finish last....lol. It was Sheilas's birthday so we booked the carvery for us all, including Marie and John, the meal was nice except for Sheila and Marie's soup which was cold.... Later we entered the music quiz in the Golden Lion and finished a respectable 3rd. After that it was Karaoke, which was a laugh...not that any of us sang on the mike, but we did do backing vocals for everyone....but only from our seats...lol

9th July

Quite uneventful day yesterday, spent the morning in the Pavillion pool with Aimee, had a nice lunch in the Kings Court, I watched a little bit of Nick Owen's talk on his time as the royal correspondent for ITV, then went for an afternoon nap....god I'm turning into a real old person.....lol. After dinner we went to see the show in the theatre, it was called “crazy in love”, it was excellent. After the show we went to the Golden Lion pub for Battle of the Sexes which the men won. The girls all went to bed quite soon after battle of the sexes, I had one more pint then I followed.

8th July

Spent the morning in the Pavillion pool with Aimee, it's brilliant how she's taken to swimming, she's got no fear and loves swimming underwater. She can do a width of the pool doing a mixture of front crawl and breast stroke, she can also do a length of the pool floating on her back. Had a sleep in the afternoon, went for dinner about 7pm and was tucked up in bed by 9pm. No alcohol passed my lips yesterday as I was still suffering from the day before......can't take it nowadays....lol. I'd have saved myself a fortune over the years if I felt this bad after drinking when I was younger.....lol.

7th July

God I feel rough, Nic and I drank 3 bottles of champagne between us at the sailaway last night and Sheila told me I'd had 3 pints of bitter as well.... God I feel rough....lol. We had a great time though, we met up with John and Marie, they'd had a great time in New York to. Not much else to report as I was in bed by 10pm lol.

6th July

Well here we are at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, all checked in and waiting to board. We went for breakfast at the Skylight Diner as usual, except for Nic who stayed in bed. We got two taxis from the hotel to the port and the taxi Sheila and I were in tried to rip us off, he didn't get away with it though lol.

5th July

We bought another hoho bus ticket each today so we could do a bit more on the downtown link and also do the uptown tour which we missed on Sunday with the rain. But before we went uptown we went to Little Italy, to a resturant on Mulberry St, to meet Jane, Justin and her dad The Colonel. It was great to see them again. After that we did the end of the downtown tour and went straight on to the uptown tour. Problem was that we had to do most of the tour downstairs on the bus as up top was full, the temperature was bloody hot to say the least, about half way through Sheila and the girls got to go up top so it wasn't all bad.... :-) We then got a taxi back to the hotel and went to Dunkin Donuts for a coffee and donuts, then tbe girls all turned in and I forced myself to go to Twins bar on 9 th ave and 34th st, were I am now having a quiet pint or three before turning in myself...... Nite nite... Hic!