Post New York Post

New York, what a place.. After 2 short flights we finally landed at JFK airport. I thought it was going to be alot busier then it was but I was more suprised by the uncleanliness of it all. It was know time to get the shuttle and holy crap the driving was insane! She was all over the road, driving in and out of lanes, cutting people off, driving in the emergency lane. Once we got to the heart of the city the driving didnt change. But it wasn't just our driver the whole place was teeming with this technique of driving around the city. People would cross the street and the drivers would just barely stop to let them pass. Finally we got to our hotel, checked in and then it was time to hit the streets.

Times Square was a mere 8 blocks up and you learn to move with the crowd. The pollution was not as bad as I thought it would be. There was alot of traffic though, not just cars, but people. Loads of people, from all walks of life. Times Square was interesting, lots of billboards and adverstising and alot of those hotdog vendors on the streets, the smells from these were pretty
bad.



We got onto our double decker bus tour which is the best way to see the city. It took us all around the lower and mid part of New York. Went around the Empire State Building which was pretty cool, its such a huge building. The tour continued all around the downtown area and took us back to times square. It was time to look for some inexpensive food just to tide us over for the night. I got some big slices of pizza while my girlfriend(Megan) decided to get some good ol' Maccas....Huge Mistake. She took one bite of a bigmac swallowed it and then realised the meat was pink inside.. oh man.. I didnt have too much luck with my food either, the pizza was so oily and greasy it was like it was just deep fried and then served. Another mission was trying to get to sleep, it really is the city that never sleeps, u could hear the traffic all through out the night.



The next morning Megan was not feeling good at all. We managed to get outside for our second day of sightseeing, we got back on the bus tour and got off at the World Trade Center site. It's now this huge construction site. We couldnt get any clear photos of it cos they have it all closed off. It was good to be there though. Then we walked down to Battery Park and then walked a huge path to get to the Statue of Liberty ferry. We got there and the lineup was insane! It was a good thing we got our tickets in advance, but still the lineup to get on the actual ferry was over 2hrs long. Megan was just about to throw up when we finally got on the ferry at that point she did go to the bathroom.



Then we went to the Statue of Liberty Island. Drawing closer and closer to the monument was pretty inspiring. I took as many pictures as I could of it and then we headed back. We went back to the hotel and from that point Megan was throwing up till the time we had to head back to the airport. I was seriously scared and no-one in the hotel would help me out, mainly cos none of them hardly spoke any english. Megan decided to tough it out and we finally made it to Laguardia airport. Lineups again through the security checkpoint was incredible but we finally made it through. I bought a souvenir NYC snowglobe, but the security guards threw it away as they percieve it as a threat, and then I find the exact same snow globes inside the airport, I was pretty mad at that fact. 2 short flights and alot of running later, we finally land back in Canada. All in all New York is a pretty cool place, but you need at least 4-5 days to see it all, the only things we didnt get to do was walk through Central Park and go on top of the Empire State Building. I think in the near future though we will be returning to finish what we started and hopefully it will go alot smoother. The one thing I loved about it was how the old fashioned architecture blended together with the modern architecture.