Notebook and Pen

Today began with a tour of Madison Square garden, led by someone who was obviously petrified he was going to lose somebody and have to tell his boss there was a lost tourist somewhere in the stadium.

The tour included getting to hold a shoe belonging to a basketball player (how exciting) and a presentation and photo opportunity with a 'real life' cheerleader. Even the teenage boys didn't look that impressed.

We did however get to see the stadium itself, from the top row of seats and decided that seeing a concert from the cheapest seats would still give you a pretty good view. Knowing this and also knowing Britney Spears was due to play at the end of the month we (read 'I' as 'we') thought it was worth asking about, despite thinking it would have sold out a long time ago.

I'm not exactly Britney's biggest fan, but when you get a chance to see the new Madonna at the world's most famous venue, you don't exactly spend too long thinking about it. Even more so when just as you're about to get your card out for the $155 seats, the box office worker mentions tickets for $39. Britney Spears for roughly 25 quid, this almost made up for missing Muse's tour going on sale.

A quick visit to a small museum to fill time and we carried on to the Museum of New York. This is advertised to give the impression of displaying the city's current culture, but was entirely focussed on the inhabiting of the island and the history of the civilisation on it, which Dave enjoyed at least.

Without much else open with enough time to get to before it closed we went back for the hostel to cook a rare healthy meal and had a just as rare early night, only to be woken up by Ali and Matt when they got back from a show, several Corona bottles in hand. Oh well, not a bad way to be woken up I suppose.