Donnie: You're right, actually. I am pretty- I'm, I'm pretty troubled and I'm, I'm pretty confused. But I... and I'm afraid. Really, really afraid. Really afraid. But I... I... I think you're the fucking Antichrist.
- Donnie Darko
Here are the photos from day 2 of our trip:
We found this great bakery called Junior's right next to the hotel and grabbed some muffins to start off our day. Kevin had to spend most of it at the conference, but Laura and I decided to conquer most of the southern part of Manhattan.
It was gloomy and rainy all day on Friday, but that didn't stop Laura and I shopping at some stores in Soho. (South of Houston St.)
Laura and her new pair of skinny jeans. I got a shirt from H&M. Who knew that place was so cheap?
>We then walked around Little Italy to look for the first pizzeria in NYC called Lombardi's that I had marked on our map. Apparently my marking was vague because we ended up getting a bit turned around. Laura was unhappy and took control of the map for the rest of the day. We eventually found a good pizza place called Pomodoro.
Pizza Pizza
After pizza we cabbed down to the World Trade Center Memorial.
The Freedom Tower.
A church next to the WTC where some of the rescuers stayed.
Next, we walked down to Battery Park to view the Statue of Liberty at a distance. Since I had been there before and was thoroughly unimpressed with its size, we decided not to ferry out to it. It's very diminutive and underwhelming, trust me. I think I deleted the actual picture of the statue. oops.
I think this is one of the ferries.
A sphere sculpture that used to reside near the WTC but was damaged.
After Battery Park, we walked to the Brooklyn Bridge at pier 17. When I was a freshman in high school, this was our first stop in NYC. We all went shopping in the mall on the pier and Alex ate greek food and had the shits all night. Good times.
Laura dropped the map soon after, but we didn't realize it until we had began making our way back towards Chinatown. With our amazing navigation skills, we didn't get lost, although walking through the lower east side without a map was pretty interesting.
We found our way back to Chinatown. This was one of our favorite places to go. The people were really friendly.
Laura was really interested in buying some rip-off purses from the stores in Chinatown. As soon as you turn on Canal St., the women that work the stores stand on the sidewalk and whisper "Coach, Prada, Gucci, Kate Spade" and if you're interested they take you to the back of the store, knock on the wall and say something in Chinese. You then hear somebody on the other side of the wall respond in Chinese and the wall opens up into a small room filled with really good rip-off purses that are illegal to sell because of copyright. Laura ended up with seven purses, some sunglasses and designer perfume.
To say we were tired after walking all day is an understatement. My feet hurt so badly.
Dinner was at Mesa Grill that night. This is Bobby Flay's restaurant. I had a delicious Chile Relleno dish. Our waiter was a twat though.
Back from dinner! We wanted to walk to Rockefeller which was only a few blocks from Times Square. I was excited.
Radio City Music Hall
Where I would have gone in if Conan didn't get cancelled.
Where the ice rink usually is.
Back in Times Square.
Day 3 coming soon! Laters for now!
2 comments:
You lost the map? But I need to borrow that map! haha, jk. It's cool... P.S. did you know your hotel was over $400 a night. You lucky bastard. Darren and i will probably be staying in a hostel in the Bronx. haha, jk. We're pinching pennies for the Crowne Plaza in time square.
Fun! I almost forgot that we all went there freshman year for band, woohoo! Lucky bastard that you got to go back.
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