Friday, June 03, 2005
Day 8: DC to New York
June 3: unfortunately it is pouring in maryland, washington DC and also new york! got up early this morning and said my goodbyes to Beth. Arrived in New York mid morning (by plane), to be greeted with overcast skies and 15 degrees C. Met a nice couple at the airport, with whom I shared a taxi to midtown. My hostel is nothing too exciting, but it will do for the night.
Caught the subway down to Macy's to buy some more comfortable shoes, but ended up getting nicer ones at Skechers nearby.
Trying to avoid the rain and casually appreciate the concrete-high busy new york city life. Meeting up with someone for dinner tonight (meant to be going up Empire State Building too, but don't know if we will with the weather the way it is), then off to the hostel to try to get some sleep before starting my Contiki tour tomorrow.
Well it decided to keep on raining the whole day of my New York experience... so I didn't go up the Empire State Building. In the end, I chilled with a friend, Jeremy, round Times Square and had dinner at the funky ESPN Zone restaurant. Met some other Aussies round the place and even saw a National Geographic program on TV about a crocodile farm that is having to compete against Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo in order to survive. Surprised to see this on TV, then again, that's the US for you.
Caught the subway down to Macy's to buy some more comfortable shoes, but ended up getting nicer ones at Skechers nearby.
Trying to avoid the rain and casually appreciate the concrete-high busy new york city life. Meeting up with someone for dinner tonight (meant to be going up Empire State Building too, but don't know if we will with the weather the way it is), then off to the hostel to try to get some sleep before starting my Contiki tour tomorrow.
Well it decided to keep on raining the whole day of my New York experience... so I didn't go up the Empire State Building. In the end, I chilled with a friend, Jeremy, round Times Square and had dinner at the funky ESPN Zone restaurant. Met some other Aussies round the place and even saw a National Geographic program on TV about a crocodile farm that is having to compete against Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo in order to survive. Surprised to see this on TV, then again, that's the US for you.
# posted by mishij @ 2:42 PM 
