On Thursday evening Abi and I went for an adventure on the river!
Abi had got some tickets for us through Living Social, for a night time dinner cruise along the East River. So we walked across from work to the river, heading down some streets we'd never been down before (it always nice going down new streets for the first time) to the river.
It'd been a horribly gloomy day, and raining too, so we were a little worried the weather would be rubbish for the cruise, we had already postponed our dinner date because of the weather a couple of weeks before. Luckily, someone was looking after us up there, and there was a beautiful sunset just as got to the boat...
Abi had got some tickets for us through Living Social, for a night time dinner cruise along the East River. So we walked across from work to the river, heading down some streets we'd never been down before (it always nice going down new streets for the first time) to the river.
It'd been a horribly gloomy day, and raining too, so we were a little worried the weather would be rubbish for the cruise, we had already postponed our dinner date because of the weather a couple of weeks before. Luckily, someone was looking after us up there, and there was a beautiful sunset just as got to the boat...
Our tickets included food and two drinks each, and as we got on the boat people were already queueing and getting their dinner from the buffet!
At the beginning of the evening we were sort of regretting going on the cruise, the buffet wasn't great and was a carb-fest (pasta, pasta, potatoes, pasta, salad and bread!), we had to share a table with another couple and there was Guns n' Roses blaring out of the speakers before we set sail.
Luckily though things got a lot better, as the lights got turned off the views out the window were spectacular and the DJ started playing some James Brown instead, so things were looking up...
As people started dancing things got really fun, it was great for people watching, we even had a little dance ourselves. There was such a mix of people on the boat too, there were people of all ages - there was one couple who must have been in their early 70's who were dancing for nearly the whole evening, to every song, it didn't matter if it was Guns n' Roses or Frank Sinatra, they were there.
The boat went down the East River, under the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge, down by the Financial District out out the see the Statue of Liberty where we stopped for a little while. It was great being able to go on the top deck of the boat, outside and see the Statue all lit up...
The view of Manhattan from the Statue was pretty amazing too...
The new World Trade Center Tower looks fantastic all lit up, they'd lit the bulbs in red, white and blue on the construction site. It was visible from the opposite side of the island - and when we were right at the bottom of Manhattan, by the Financial District is was amazing to see just how huge it's going to be. It was really quite awesome.
It was so wonderful to be able to stand on the back of the boat, away from the dance floor, and just stand and watch all the beautiful twinkly lights shining.
Just before the cruise ended, the boat was turning around just by the old Pepsi advert. We've seen this from the other side of the river, when we've been getting taxi's back to Brooklyn and I've always wanted to get up close to it - so it was fantastic to get this close to it in the boat.
I think New York at night is one of my favourite ways to see the city. Just seeing the skyline from Brooklyn Bridge Park is breath-taking, but seeing the whole city at night by boat is just incredible.
Corny disco boat, or not, it was an absolutely fantastic night.
At the beginning of the evening we were sort of regretting going on the cruise, the buffet wasn't great and was a carb-fest (pasta, pasta, potatoes, pasta, salad and bread!), we had to share a table with another couple and there was Guns n' Roses blaring out of the speakers before we set sail.
Luckily though things got a lot better, as the lights got turned off the views out the window were spectacular and the DJ started playing some James Brown instead, so things were looking up...
The boat went down the East River, under the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge, down by the Financial District out out the see the Statue of Liberty where we stopped for a little while. It was great being able to go on the top deck of the boat, outside and see the Statue all lit up...
The view of Manhattan from the Statue was pretty amazing too...
Corny disco boat, or not, it was an absolutely fantastic night.
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