NYC FIRST DAY...!!!

Arrival Day We arrived at Newark airport and went straight to security, it took a good while to get through. By the time we had out bags were on the conveyor. We grabbed them and ran to the air train which we took for one stop then took the free Shuttle bak to the hotel. After dropping our bags off and freshening up we wEnt back to the airport and took the New Jersey Transit to NY Penn then a subway to 14th on 8th ave to walk the high line! Which was amazing. We got on. At gansevoort st in the meat packing district and walked to Chelsea but I would recommend walking the other way as there are many amazing places to eat and drink in the Meatpacking district. After we got off at Chelsea we walked round before making an exec decision to get a yellow cab to Ellen's Diner. In Ellen's Diner the staff sang an array of songs from phantom of the opera and Frozen to Chicago and Sam Smith! Truly brilliant. We had a pitcher of beer and didn't even get id'd! I had a Philly cheesesteak to go with the beer and was most definitely too full for desert. When we left it was dark so we headed to Times Square and took in the amazing sights/atmosphere on the red steps. On the way we stopped to speak to a boy selling comedy tickets was very chatty. We had some issues on the journey home as we hadn't studied the tube map, we had to ask various people where to go and were directed to platform 13 in Penn NY and jumped on the train - where the screen said next station NY PENN!!! Thinking we were going the wrong way we ran off and then realised we were at PENN ! So ran back on, much to the amusement of the man we sat next to who was laughing at us. He explained the tube map to us and gave us the history of New Jersey and Elizabeth! Who knew our history in the UK was so closely linked... We finally got back to the hotel at 4am UK time, feeling weary , tired and her lagged I jumped into bed for a much much needed sleep. Ready for all that I was to discover on day two in NYC I apologize for spelling and grammar mistakes! I'm having to type this out on my phone, and it's very long winded :( I can't upload any pictures yet because the wifi isn't good enough. Will upload some ASAP.