Washington Failure

"I think the main thing we have learned from this trip will have been...do not use greyhound bus service if you want to get somewhere"

Bus from charlotte 12.30. Time we left, 1.30am. We were scheduled to get to DC at 10am. We get in at 4pm. The time our bus is meant to leave for new york is 4pm. This was due to a disablede woman who was rude and irritating (dont feel sorry for her) and she basically broke the bus and shouted at staff. We don't get Nandos or get to the white house. We get to new york around 8 or 9. Dan's booked the bus a day early so turns out we dont have a place to stay as our hostel on broadway is booked up until our room becomes free the next morning. We wonder around broadway and the upper west side looking for a hostel that has availability on a friday night. We finally find a HI (hostel international) of which i am a member so i recieve discount so this makes the rip off rates seem slightly redeemable for me. Unlucky boys. We're only going to be at the hostel for 12 hours but we take it anyway. Get dressed, convince the boys to go to times square at ten at night because it's a cool place to look at with all the lights n such. We eat pizza in a Sparro's, i have fruit too. Jamie and Dan decide to walk back. It is warm and muggy. Times square is busting with humans. Me and mark go to get cake and walk about and explore instead. It's $17 bucks buut we only have $15 and some change between us. The guy at the counter kindly lets us have the cake for that. Fucking american tax charge. I have strawberry cheesecake, it's possibly one of the nicest i have ever had and mark has vanilla and chocolate cake which he dosen't quite finish-understandibly. Mine was sickly sweet bus amazing. We stroll into a three storey m+m shop and i instantly regret not bringing more money out. Peanut m+m's are one of my favourite chocolates. We find madison square garden and get lost in penn station. Get continually panhandled but we dont have a cent to our name. They dont believe us. We try to find the empire state building and when we do mark is disappointed with its size. I am too, it seemed bigger when i went up it before. We get the subway home.

Day 2
wake up pretty early to change hostels. Go to the metropolitan museum for the day. Walk around looking like pseudo-intellectuals