The 17-year-old wanders in to the bedroom as I'm packing, surrounded by cases and piles of clothes. He watches for a few moments and then, in a slightly confused tone, asks 'Mum, why on earth are you packing those?'
Me, looking up with a pair of long black socks in my hands, 'What?, Oh these, they're my flight compression socks.'
Him: 'Your what?'
Me: 'Flight compression socks, you wear them on long flights to stop deep vein thrombosis.'
Him: 'Deep vein what? What's that?'
Me: 'Blood clots in your legs.'
Him, nodding at socks, 'Well, they won't be any use.'
Me: 'Why not?'
Him: 'They're my football socks.'
Ah, ok.
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| Just arrived, 4am UK time, a huge bed each! |
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| Rockerfeller Center. |
The 11-year-old, ordering breakfast: 'I'd like some eggs please.'
Waitress: 'Sure, how would you like them?'
Son, looking a bit unsure: 'Er, I'd like them fried please.'
Waitress: 'Would you like them sunny side up?'
Son, looking more than a little confused: 'I don't know what that is'.
Waitress: 'That's when they're looking at you with the yolk facing up.'
Son: 'Oh right, so is the other way rainy side down then?'
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| Look what I found in Battery Park |
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| Ah, so that's the real one....... |
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| Times Square |
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| Central Park |
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| Central Park |
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| Hot chocolate in The Boathouse, Central Park |
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Bell given by London to New York in rememberance of 9/11 |
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| Freedom Tower going up at the World Trade Center site |
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| Taxi! |
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| The amazing Flatiron building |
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| One boy's idea of WWE heaven, ToysRus, Times Square |
Busking New York style....wandering through Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village.
The 11-year-old: 'Wow, there's a man playing a piano.'
The 17-year-old, looking around,: 'Blimey, how did he manage to get that here? Oh it's on wheels, perhaps he was dropped off by someone in a van.'
Slight pause while we listen to the music.
The 11-year-old: 'Well that's not something you'd see in Bath every day.'
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| Busking Greenwich Village style |
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| Empire State, one tall building.... |
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| What a view.....from the Empire State |
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| My favourite building, the beautiful Chrysler Building |
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| And again....breathtaking at dusk |
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| Downtown skyline from Staten Island ferry |
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| And finally.....well, every girl deserves a treat....... |
Flying home.
Settling into my seat on the British Airways 747 waiting to leave JFK for London.
'Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I'm Captain Mandy ****** and I'll be flying you to London this evening'....
Oh great, six hours of not being able to get 10cc's 'I'm Mandy, fly me' out of my head.
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