We didn’t venture too far because it was our last day in New York City. We drove to Forest Hills, which the staff at our hotel told us was a nice leafy and green suburb that had some unique shops and excellent restaurants. They also told us we were lucky to have hired a car in New York, because some of the bus drivers don’t like to take people to Forest Hills; one of the staff told us how he didn’t know that the buses wouldn’t accept a $5 bill, that he would only take quarters, and then the bus driver told him to ask the other passengers on the bus, to give him change for the $5! The passengers readily gave him the change he needed, which he never thought would happen in New York City.
 
When we drove into Forest Hills, we found a nice coffee shop, which reminded us of back home, an English Tea Room. We treated ourselves to cake and tea. Afterwards we parked our car and went inside a nearby shopping mall. We are here to report that we didn’t make any purchases. We didn’t think anything seemed unique or unusual, maybe we needed to have asked our hotel staff what shops they were referring to. So, we had lunch a an Applebee’s. Forest Hills was leafy and green, but after driving around for about an hour, we really didn’t see any shops that we were interested in, so we drove back to our hotel and packed up our bags, because it was time to return our car hire and catch our flight back to England from JFK.
 
We were about 10 minutes into our drive, when we realize that we had forgotten one of our bags at the hotel! We turned right around and it was great to see one of the hotel staff members holding on to our bag up at the front desk! New York, didn’t thrill us like we thought it would, we really weren’t sure what all the hype was about.

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