Let me start by saying this: NEVER take the cheaper option for accommodation at a location you know nothing of, even if the pictures look okay! Remember the movie "The Beach" with Leonardo Dicaprio? Remember where he stayed in the first part of the movie? Well, just to make everyone's stay more "exciting" they have the yellow "do not cross this line" plastic barrier tape the police use to cordon off two rooms... What for? I didn't even want to ask! I did not want to know... Mmmm.. wonder what happened there... if anything! FUN! FUN! FUN ;-)
Anyway, all's well; checked in at approx 4pm and took a nice long shower after travelling forever. Let the games begin! Midtown here I come!
What I could make out from the maps I had I needed to go to Radio City. You would not believe the sea of people you have to struggle to get through just to cross the road!
I proceeded to the famous Rockerfellar Center. This place was built during the Great Depression in the 1930's by about 70,000 workers who started a tradition of setting up a small Christmas tree on the construction site every year. Since then, year after year thousands of people gather to witness the annual lighting of the Rockerfellar Center Christmas Tree. Amazing!
While I was still planning my visit to NY, I read that you had to make a booking to attend the Midnight Mass on Christmas eve at the St. Patrick's Cathedral. To my amazement all tickets were sold out! Yup, you heard me - they sell tickets! I called in October! Being the most beautiful Cathedral in Manhattan, I had to of course at least have a look. It took me approx. 30 minutes from the Rockefeller Ice Skating Rink to the Cathedral. It was SO crowded! It's literary just around the corner from each other! Finally got to the Cathedral and voila; doors are open and I went in! 
