Day 8 - Bronx Zoo

Today, we braved the Bronx...or the Zoo at least.
Amy and I had no idea where to get off the subway, so we guessed it at 180th East and thankfully, it was a very lucky guess as we were only about a two minute walk from the Zoo.
Bronx Zoo is placed literally in the center of the Bronx, once you were in there it was easy to forget that you were in the middle of a pretty rough built up area, as everywhere you looked there was trees...and animals! Amy's favourite sighting of the day wasn't the girrafes, lemurs, tigers, zebras, rhinos, elephants...it was a chipmunk...
The zoo was packed full of animals, you were never far from one exhibit, my favourite had to be the polar bear. He spent the whole time we were watching him playing with either a log or with a ball, though, he did look lonely.

On the way back we were an hour early at the station, so we found what can only really be described as a sort of street in the station, packed with food stores...and free samples, we made our way up and down taking smoothies, ice cream and pizza. We finally got on the train and returned home to be dragged around by a 5 and 6 year old wanting to play "secret agents"