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Published: March 17th 2011
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Hi everybody! Happy St. Patricks-day 😊
OK, so i just got back from my first full day of touristing around the big apple 😊
Made a whole lot of pictures, saw most of Manhattan, did a bunch of discoveries, ate well etc.
So basically good times were had.
But I will get to that later 😉
First I’ll answer the comments that were posted.
Obviously a private message is a message to me which only I can read.
While everyone can read comments, but the thing about comments is that in order for them to become visible for everyone I need to log in first and accept them. Personally I would prefer them to be visible by default since that would mean less hassle for me but I guess that cant be helped.
U can see the comments either to at the bottom of each entry I made or u can also find them all bundled together at the 'guestbook'.
Pictures will as of now be included at this blog .. I hope(i am trying to upload them now)
Kay, so my first day in NYC went a little like this 😉
Since the weather forecast was
rainy I wasn’t too keen on getting up early so I slept the clock round till 10am.
Wrote the previous blog entry in bed and then got up at around 11am.
I set out on foot again since I wanted to see NYC at first hand and not trough the window of a bus, train or cab.
After passing trough central park I arrived at the first sight on the to do list … the Apple store of NYC 😊
As u can see on the picture its just a glass entrance with the logo inside and an elevator to level-1, where the store obviously is located 😊
As I am not rlly an apple fan, for me this was just a cool place
But I can imagine that certain people would go wild here.
Basically its a big place where u can try out dozens of shiny new ipads(the new thin ones off course, which I did try out and was pretty cool), ipods, iphones, imacs and god know what else those things are called.
And where u can find any thinkable gadget for your apple device.
After testing most of the stuff in the apple store
I set about to make my way down to st. Patrick’s Cathedral.. of which I forgot to take pictures of the outside(i had just been asked the way by something that well.. would make just about any man loose his wits).
When I arrived inside, there was a mass being held.
But apparently u can still go round in the cathedral and take pictures.
So I went and admired all of the niches with each its own shrine of a different saint, cunningly evading the tens of donation-to-the-poor/church-stands(ye right, they don’t fool me anymore) and even taking the time to follow a part of the mass which was... pretty much the same as it is back at home..
The building itself was not nearly as big as u would expect a cathedral to be but inside it was pretty impressive and nicely finished in detail 😊(receiving a 89% on the great-peter-religious-building-assessment-scale)
When I was done talking to God I went on and made my way down to the Rockefeller center, where I was planning to go up to the observation decks of the Top of the rock.
On my way there I got side-tracked though after noticing a lego-store, which
was pretty neat as it had a dragon made of lego going trough the entire store, going trough multiple walls and ending(or starting :s) above a small replica of NY besides some other giant lego-Atlasses and such.
But ok, top of the rock, here I come.
Well, would've came if I had had cash on me, which I didn’t obviously.
So I went looking for an ATM and some lunch while I was at it.
Since I gave myself a side mission on this trip, being trying out local foods, I went to look for a typical American lunch and found that in … 😊 Mcdonalds yeeeeee
I am not really a fan of mickey D's back home but I thought 'maybe its better here in the states'
And I mean omg, they should shoot that European clown.
The burger I ate there was honestly one of the best burgers I ever ate(and I ate a lot of burgers in my life 😊)
Now I could go on about this burger for a couple of pages but I guess that’s not why you are reading this blog 😉
So then after my ten minutes in burger-heaven, I tried
again to make it to the top of the rock.
Besides me not being to found of heights and the admission price being 22USD there wasn’t really anything holding me back to take the elevator up to the 67th floor and then the stairs to the 69th, where the highest observation deck is situated.
Once up there and admiring the view, I figured that this was easily worth the 22dollars.
Couse man, the sights from up there are just beyond awesome.
Going down in the elevator I noticed that u can actually see trough the glass ceiling of the lift itself on which a little show is projected... which I found to be, well, .. interesting I guess since you're going down a 150meter vertical shaft in a little metal box.
With my feet back down safely on the ground I started walking toward Times square, making a small detour to the Chrysler building(i think this is a really cool looking building 😊 ) and Central station.
Times square is amazingly cool, so many shops, so many people and so much advertisement.
Walked in some cool stores there.
Like Toys-R-US, a 3lvl toy store with a giant ferris
wheel in the middle and a big T-rex roaring his heart out next to the 4meter Optimus Prime... and the list goes on
Or the giant M&M-store or Disney-store to name a few.
From here out I started walking again towards the hostel where I arrived at around 8pm.
Just down the street I saw about seven police vehicles, so I guess this neighborhood is really, really safe 😊
Its called Harlem by the way...
So tomorrow I will go try and see little miss liberty(it IS weirdly quite tiny 😊) ground zero, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn itself, eat some pizza over there and then later at night, go watch the game :o
Thats it for tonight I guess.
Greetings from Harlem,
Pieje.
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anonymous
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Hebde gij die nadars daar zo schoon samengezet :-p