8:47 am Suddenly around 8:!5 am, I wake up and I can't fall asleep. So I realize it's photolog day and I run out to Broadway in a frantic search for batteries for my dying digicam. I contemplate buying the charger because I stupidly left it at home. But the stores are CLOSED. I am not going to miss a photolog am I...so I use a charge bar on this picture of Broadway. |
9:59 am And so Justin is nice enough to lend me his digicam (Thanks!). Relief. And here the boyz (and weeklong roomies)get ready (when I have been ready for an hour...) |
10:09 am We decide what to do for the day. And we're waiting in the lobby for some people to come down. |
10:30 am Finally we head to the subway, which is right on the corner from the hotel. At west 32nd right in the middle of K-town in NYC! |
10:31 am And it turns out that Hari has worked on the user interface of the NYC subway system. We get all excited and then we all plop $20 on a metrocard. The line that says "dip your card" for swiping a credit card makes me amused. |
10:43 am Oh where is the subway? Fortunately, we don't experience a lag time, because this is NYC! |
10:47 am We take the express accidentally, but we're still happy! |
10:48 am People around us can tell that we're tourists considering the large group of 7 and all of us are whipping out our cameras. |
11:19 am We get on the right train and finally end up at the Museum of Natural History stop. |
11:20 am Pretty fishies in the subway station. Who knew that stations could have so much character? |
11:32 am Our first exhibit in the museum--an exploration of the planets. And how much do you weigh on the moon? |
11:38 am The moon crashes on me. Ok maybe not yet. |
11:57 am We walk the Cosmic Pathway which details the 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. With each foot we take, we walk several million years. |
12:07 pm The majestic Barosarus in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, the world's tallest freestanding mount of a dinosaur. |
12:33 pm We skip some more halls. Carol is sad. :( |
12:36 pm A typical scene in our journey of NYC: cellphone and walking. |
12:39 pm We walk through Human Evolution and not to our surprise, we are made out of bones. Also I am made up of extreme silliness because I can't even give a normal pose for pictures. |
12:40 pm Carol and the circulatory system |
1:13 pm Then we leave to find lunch. Here, people just can't wait for my photosnapping behavior anymore. Wait for me!!! |
1:58 pm Hari is disappointed in my eating skills. I try my best to finish up this FAT pizza slice at Ray's pizza, but I fail miserably. If I can't do this, how can I do a 6 lb burger??? |
2:21 pm And now we walk through Central Park. It's THAT bridge. I get excited again. |
2:25 pm Unfortunately it's the winter so there's no romping on the lawns as the sign says, "The lawn is closed for the season foot traffic damages dormant turf. Allowing turf to rest after an active season will ensure a healthy lawn in the spring." |
2:26 pm I see the Gates (an art installation) in the distance across the lake. Excited!!! |
2:28 pm Rest and enjoy the scenery. Again, I am still the one not doing a normal pose. |
2:37 pm And finally, we have reached a Gate. |
2:39 pm Carol poses me around a pole. |
2:41 pm A guy hands us all each a swatch of the Gates material. We all tuck our own into our pockets for safe-keeping. |
2:43 pm And we continue walking... |
2:57 pm Now at Strawberry Fields. Remembering John Lennon, |
2:59 pm Shoe problem. |
3:05 pm Fields forever...at a nearby t-shirt stop. Remember, if there's something that attracts people (with money) in NYC, there's a way to make money too. |
3:18 pm Lisa and Carol head inside the Tavern on the Green for rest stop while I run excitedly around the building... |
3:20 pm ...to where Rick Moranis' character is torn apart by the ghostly cougars in Ghostbusters! |
3:32 pm At Julliard's Lincoln Center... |
3:34 pm Can we...stop...for...a moment...to...rest? |
3:36 pm Suddenly, someone gets a brillant idea of picking people up. |
4:13 pm At the Samsung Experience store at the new Time Warner Center. Many gadgets to play with. And also apparently a cell phone that you could use to call people...for free. For "security", Shannon deletes the number she just called. |
4:48 pm And we stop at a Tastee Delite (Lisa's favorite) store where I go for my fruity flavors again--strawberry gelato and kiwi sorbet. |
5:17 pm We get hassled by people who want us to buy comedy show tickets in Times Square. |
5:18 pm The MTV studio in the distance. When I was younger, I really wanted to be here to stand in all the superficiality. Now it's an indication of how commercial-like Times Square has become. Also this was the point where the battery sort of died... |
8:32 pm And awhile later after spending some time at the Gap and walking back 10 blocks to the hotel and resting and finally meeting up with Alex (he and I played phone tag all day) and his friend Kim...we get to Orchid Restaurant in Cheslea. Apparently Alex can't make a normal pose either. |