First Day of Few in the Big Apple

Wednesday, February 28

After getting all we could of free Internet...we head off to see the big apple. First stop? Breakfast at a Columbia Bakery. Yum Cream cheese and sleep aid medication advertisement coffee sleeve.

Second stop? Central Park.. at the end of the block of the hostel.









It's quite a nice place.








Ashley, Karen, me, Ann

Then we started walking...

Sucker is getting a ticket.


We saw the Central Park Zoo.. and Alpacas!


How depressing is this photo?


When we hit the "Times Square Shuffle" zone, we decided to get on a bus.


We saw this while on the bus. "No Honking, $350 Penalty"

We wanted to get to Time's Square, but missed the stop.


Madison Square Gardens.


Needle and button.


Reuters! Apparently only I knew what that was.

Finally...

Time's Square





We decided we'd get tickets to a Broadway show. We couldn't really find any cheap ones...but then went to the nearest theatre. After getting our tickets to Beauty and the Beast, we went wandering through the city. I wanted to get a sweater or something because it was freezing cold...well windy and I of course was not wearing a coat.

I got a sweater at the Gap and we went to Toys'R'Us

Best


Store


Ever.


Ha.


Follow me guys.

When we came out, we wanted to get pretzels/hotdogs from one stand but alas, this happened:


We grabbed some pizza on the run and headed to B&B



Unfortunately the part of the Cheesegrater was played by Ron Smith.

It was possibly the most hilarious thing that's ever happened to me. It was low budget and full of cheering children. Lumier's accent went from dirty Quebecois to Mexican, it was amazing.

Post B&B and aching guts from laughing so hard...we headed over to Ground Zero.

Where the towers once stood.




Photo chronicle.





Afterwards, we headed down to Battery Park...which I for some reason or another, remembered. I hadn't been to New York since grade 12.







There she is.. Lady Liberty in all her glory.


Pier and stuff.


Aww. You know you want it Karen.

Then we stumbled upon this:



Sadly, these were the most inappropriate things we could think of.

It was nearing 7:00 PM and we decided that we wanted to go for dinner in Little Italy... instead we somehow ended up in Chinatown at a Vietnamese/Thai place recommended by our book.

You see that stuff on the plate? It's chimp.. Chicken+shrimp.


It was amazing.


The amazing food did not stop us from making asses of ourselves. Nothing ever does. Actually, Karen is demonstrating chicken and Ann is demonstrating shrimp, which results in chimp, what they had for dinner.





After dinner we decided we'd check out the comedy club thing we'd bought two two-for-one tickets for. It promised us laughter and entertianment and a first rate comedian.
Apparently there was a two drink minimum we were not aware of.. d'oh! Though the tickets only cost us $5 a piece and then $10 in drinks, so not too bad for our first scamming.


We did get a real comedian though:

Jim Gaffigan from "My Boys" who did a 20 minute bit about the greatness of bacon...

Also, we sat next to the most beautiful man that ever was..and his wife. They were Norweigan. We got back to the hostel around 11:00 PM to meet our very Brazilian roommates. And so concludes Day 1 in NYC.