Saturday, July 02, 2005
Day 37: Long Island/ New York City
July 2: Long weekend here, everyone's celebrating!
Picked up my photos that my cousin burnt onto CD for me, then spent more time with other cousins back down at the beach cabanna. The beach we went to is between Jones and Long Beach on Long Island. It's a private beach and only people from the area or owners of cabannas can enter.
Heaps of people at the beach sunbaking, boogie boarding, swimming, the usual. Lifeguards sit on yellow high chairs and wear navy blue. Sand is very white, unlike our yellow.
Had lunch down there and chilled with a range of cousins - great to meet some of them for a first time, others to see them again.
Returned to Manhattan by train in the late afternoon.... only to see Times Sqaure is a manic state: MTV was broadcasting live the LIVE 8 concert from Philadelphia and a stretch limousine was blown up and burnt out on 44th Street, right next to where "Fiddler on the Roof" is being performed. Coincidence or not, not sure?!
Adam and I then headed to see the musical, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", based on the movie, starring John Lithgow among others. Very funny, lots of laughs - recommended. We then met up with some of Adam's friends and went to Luna Park (bar) at Union Square, Tonic (a strange underground club - for someone's birthday), and a Jazz bar (underground too, on Avenue C).
Adam is very kindly putting me up for the next two nights before I leave the US.
Picked up my photos that my cousin burnt onto CD for me, then spent more time with other cousins back down at the beach cabanna. The beach we went to is between Jones and Long Beach on Long Island. It's a private beach and only people from the area or owners of cabannas can enter.
Heaps of people at the beach sunbaking, boogie boarding, swimming, the usual. Lifeguards sit on yellow high chairs and wear navy blue. Sand is very white, unlike our yellow.
Had lunch down there and chilled with a range of cousins - great to meet some of them for a first time, others to see them again.
Returned to Manhattan by train in the late afternoon.... only to see Times Sqaure is a manic state: MTV was broadcasting live the LIVE 8 concert from Philadelphia and a stretch limousine was blown up and burnt out on 44th Street, right next to where "Fiddler on the Roof" is being performed. Coincidence or not, not sure?!
Adam and I then headed to see the musical, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", based on the movie, starring John Lithgow among others. Very funny, lots of laughs - recommended. We then met up with some of Adam's friends and went to Luna Park (bar) at Union Square, Tonic (a strange underground club - for someone's birthday), and a Jazz bar (underground too, on Avenue C).
Adam is very kindly putting me up for the next two nights before I leave the US.
# posted by mishij @ 8:42 PM 
