Again, we had no fixed plans today, except for a bot of shopping. So, we left the hotel, turned left onto 6th Avenue - and walked into a huge market. They'd closed off a 3/4 of a mile stretch of on of the busiest avenues, just for a street fair for the USO. Can you imagine them doing that on Oxford Street!? Made for an unexpected but interesting diversion for the morning.
In the afternoon we headed to Union Square and had a look round the farmers' market, before replacing my Sony e-reader, which had just died on me. The staff in Best Buy were less than helpful, so we headed to Barnes and Noble, where a very helpful young man called Bryce set up my new Nook for me, and rescued what he could from my Sony reader. He has ensured that any time we're over, we'll be shopping there.
Next, was a walk up Broadway towards the Flatiron building and Madison Square park. We thought about grabbing a burger from Shake Shack for a late lunch, but no matter how good their burgers are rumoured to be, the can't be worth the queue that snaked halfway round the park. Finished off the afternoon with some clothes shopping and after some people watching in Times Square, we are enjoying a lazy evening.
Off to the baseball tomorrow night - hometown derby again the Staten Island Yankee. Back to Coney, so I must remember my sunscreen!!
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