NEW YORK IS AMAZING!!!! Its cold , but yesterday was really nice, the sun was out and so it want too bad. Its so nice to be here and to see chris. ..big relief. Although the flights were all quite horrible, didn't get much sleep but watched a few good movies.
Yesterday we went for an incredible breakfast then walked the entire length of central park! 50 or so blocks. There were huge icicles on all the waterfalls and fountains, leafless winter trees (i found it strange that there isn't many evergreens). Theres lots of different areas, theres the great hill, the highest part of the park, that has stunning cityscapes, theres tennis courts, bridges, beautiful old tunnels, and even a castle that you can climb up through and look out over a turtle pond. Theres even a little labyrinth of pathways called The Ramble! One of my favourite parts though would have to be the Jacqui kennedy lagoon. its huge! and theres a walkway all the way around. We got there just at dusk and the light on all the buildings on the opposite side was the best it could have been :D
After walking from the northwest corner all the way through to the southwest corner we stopped for a coffee break and then headed into the main part of manhattan. 5th avenue has all the expensive label shops, with eccentric window displays. Rockefeller centre still had the huge christmas tree up, with tons of people ice-skating around in front of it (good thing we went there coz it was the last day for the christmas display). Bryant park is another ice-skating rink and then we made our way to Time Square. There was massive big tv screens bigger than buildings and if it wasn't neon then it wasn't interesting. Even the NYPD sign was flashing neon. :P there were glowing red steps that we climbed to look out over all the people to the brainwashing advertisements.
After we walked the length of time square we went to Macy's, apparently the biggest shopping centre in the world. It was like ten stories and packed full of people even at 8pm. Theres a sale on there today and tomorrow so i hate to imagine the crowd that would draw in. My mission was the find a coat. we got to the eight floor and felt nauseous from the elevator ride so sat for a while. i looked on the sale racks and was beginning to doubt id find one i liked that was warm and within my budget. then, there on the rack, the only one, and happened to be an xs, brown with coloured lining and green cuffs, was my dream jacket. I bought it and then we had pizza and took the subway home.
In total we calculated we walked at least one hundred blocks!!
After walking from the northwest corner all the way through to the southwest corner we stopped for a coffee break and then headed into the main part of manhattan. 5th avenue has all the expensive label shops, with eccentric window displays. Rockefeller centre still had the huge christmas tree up, with tons of people ice-skating around in front of it (good thing we went there coz it was the last day for the christmas display). Bryant park is another ice-skating rink and then we made our way to Time Square. There was massive big tv screens bigger than buildings and if it wasn't neon then it wasn't interesting. Even the NYPD sign was flashing neon. :P there were glowing red steps that we climbed to look out over all the people to the brainwashing advertisements.
After we walked the length of time square we went to Macy's, apparently the biggest shopping centre in the world. It was like ten stories and packed full of people even at 8pm. Theres a sale on there today and tomorrow so i hate to imagine the crowd that would draw in. My mission was the find a coat. we got to the eight floor and felt nauseous from the elevator ride so sat for a while. i looked on the sale racks and was beginning to doubt id find one i liked that was warm and within my budget. then, there on the rack, the only one, and happened to be an xs, brown with coloured lining and green cuffs, was my dream jacket. I bought it and then we had pizza and took the subway home.
In total we calculated we walked at least one hundred blocks!!
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