| Jun 17, 2006 - Drinks and Dames (Well...one big famous one)
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 | Well is this not the perfect 'On the way home pissed' food ever?
| | This is inside the little cafe Letterman always goes to.
| | Yes the eyes are from the camera
| | A funky building in Times Square
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 | Little Italy from Chinatown
| | The traffic lights here are shockingly wierd
| | Welcome to Wall St
| | They love their flags
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 | They really do have those floating garbage barges
| | Us on the boat in front of the statue
| | The lady in red, white and blue
| | The NY Skyline
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 | We saw her again on the way back
| | We accidentally saw the Smithsonian
| | A load of Bull
| | Back where we began
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 | | Ground Zero, 2 new towers in town
| | The old skyline
| | Some moonshine we saw on the way home
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| We had a chilled out day thursday after a big one the day before. Ended up meeting up with Adrian in the afternoon and having some drinks at his hostel. He left us there to go out with some girl, so we ended up hanging out with everyone we met there and walking home around 6am.
The plan yesterday was to wake up early in the morning and head down to the Museum of Natural History but i'm sure you can imagine that it didn't happen. We met up with Adrian and his friend Trenton again in the afternoon (At a happy hour bar in the city), but didn't really want another big night to ruin the next day for us, so we got some dinner and had an early one.
Today was much more constructive than the last couple. We met Adrian and Trenton again and went out for Yum Cha in Chinatown. Chinatown was so full of people, with dodgy little markets everywhere trying to sell you anything you can imagine. We got a couple of quick photos of this, and of Little Italy up the road before heading off to see the Statue of Liberty.
This was pretty cool. Instead of paying $25 to go to the island (you can't climb up the statue after 9/11 anyway), we just took the free Statton Island Ferry across the harbour in front of the statue. We got a nice view of the Lady and could see some nice views of downtown NY too.
It was kinda funny, because what we could see of the people on Liberty Island was that they were lining the edge of the island only, trying to get as far from the statue as possible to fit it on their cameras.
After this trip we went down to Wall St and Ground Zero (WTC) to have a look around.
There were some nice people at ground zero hawking photos of the buildings falling and stuff, and i'm really surprised nobody told them off. |
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