New York Day 1

First thing we have to say is we both love New York.   We got into New York about 4:30pm on the 4th July.  After we checked into our hotel room a few of us decided to go to Carlo's Bakery, he's from the tv show cake boss.  We bought cupcakes and elclairs and they were awesome, we got back to the hotel and we had our pre-tour meeting.  Once we go that done we went and had dinner with a few of our friends and then headed down to the Hudson river to watch the 4th July fireworks.  It was awesome the fireworks went for half hour and they had ones I had never seen before.  We're so glad we were in New York for 4th July, there's no where better.  We didn't head to any bars after the fireworks cos they were all packed out and you coul hardly move so we headed back to our hotel to get some sleep.  The next morning we started our day by having a city tour and it was awesome to see the places you see on tv.  We saw so much it was awesome.  They took us down to the world trade center site and that was very strange, they are still building the new buildings and they are doing a memorial on the exact site of the two towers.  The building we were in was also destroyed and they had to rebuild it.  After the city tour we had the rest of the day to ourselves and we decided to go shopping in the trendy 5th Avenue district.  Let me just say we only made it Tiffney & Co and spent a small fortune in there.  It was well worth it though. I bought a ring with diamonds in it and Katrina bought a ring with a pink sapphire and a necklace.  They are all really beautiful.   We spent an hour in the store and we didn't have enough time to have a look at any other stores.  We had to head back to the hotel and get ready of dinner.