Just desserts...

So 48 hours after 'Crap-Gate' we are finally back on UK soil.

The lovely J picked us up from the airport with our suitcases over flowing and a tired look in our eyes...we managed to get just an hour and a half sleep on the plane, and as Pootle described it, we were so tired we were 'hanging out of our arses man' as we settled into J's little white car.

Nevertheless we still managed to fill J in on all the details of our trip and chatted to her excitedly as she weaved in and out of the traffic like a woman on a mission...
"Out of the way Jerk...I have two classy, internationally jet setting, knackered women in the car!"

We are genuinely exhausted; but a really good exhausted. We also appear to be suffering from a little bit of jet lag and that nice wobbly vertigo feeling that can only be produced by flying or living on a boat for three days...how the hell Victoria Beckham does it one will never know.

We have had an absolutely amazing time. We completed everything we set out to do and more on our itinerary, but we were looking forward to seeing our hobbits and indulging in cuddles...if my body and brain would just stop rocking like it is on the sea for just a wee moment.

J asked us this evening what was our favourite bit and I honestly couldn't give her a definitive answer except for - "all of it."

The whole experience was exciting; enthralling; fun; inspiring and sharing it with Pootle was the icing on the cake...well, actually I am being generous...snuggling up to the NYPD blue may just have been the icing on the cake...

Our weekend was packed. In fact the only time we actually stopped was Monday afternoon in Central Park for about 45 minutes, experiencing some greenery and a hot dog from a street vendor.

To give you a brief resume we tackled; Bubba Gump Shrimp, The Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station (where the handsome NYPD obliged us with a photo...hot, was not the word...bloody steaming was); shopped on Fifth Avenue where we perved over the Abercrombie & Fitch guys; The Rockerfella Center...saw Trump Tower; watched Spider-Man on Broadway, bought limitless numbers of coffee in Starbucks; Macy's, Bloomingdales; visited the very peaceful and humbling 9/11 memorial site, pretended that we were financially viable to purchase something in Prada; appreciated the Statue of Liberty from the ferry to Staten Island; drank five dollar milkshakes that were close to orgasmic and so much more...

Are you surprised that we are exhausted? We walked everywhere and the weather was perfect. Many of you have requested photos so I will choose some good ones for you all and post, so that you can at least share some of the experience we had...

I felt quite sad saying goodbye to New York last night, but we will go back. I am determined that that will not be my only visit because it was awesome...however, we were glad to be coming home...not for the usual run of the mill rubbish...but for our boys.

They were spoilt...but it was worth it to see their faces.

So back to normality...of working, good evenings with friends, playing in the park with the boys and chatting up potentials on the internet...oh, and more importantly above anything else, I now have a book to write...let's hope that I give the last year its just desserts...