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Botanical Gardens & Coney Island - New York

Botanical Gardens

Off to the botanical Gardens where we met the friendliest duck in the world

This picture is for Les!

Bonsai trees

Don't know what this was but it was very strange

Japanese Garden

Coney Island

Off to Coney Island, which I must admit I wouldn't bother going back, as Stuart put it, it makes Hastings look posh!

We had to come to try out the Cyclone, a roller coaster built in the 1920's

Here's the carriages

Here we are getting on, all quite exciting as we decide to take the back seats!

Back seats!! What a mistake to make, it was terrifying!!

We never got a picture of us getting off, I think we were all to shaken up to do anything!! It was one of the scariest rides we have even been on, the first hill we came down we all thought we were going to die!! I have never heard Stuart sound so worried! It is highly necessary for me to put up the picture that Pat and Les brought of us on it, Stuart and Les are pulling exactly the same "help me i'm going to die" face, I look as though I have eaten my top lip and Pat is just laughing as if she is having a lovely walk in the park!!

We had to go and have a sit down by the sea to recover, we almost lost 2 pairs of glasses and Les' metro tickets flew out of his pocket never to be seen again!

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