The Big Apple

As I've mentioned on a couple of occasions, the Big Apple was conquered last week by the reckless n' flamboyant road trip crew of K-town. We departed Kingston last Wednesday just after six o'clock in the morning and got back home late into the night on Saturday. The trip can be summed up as being awesome, a success, and a perfect choice for us seasoned road trip veterans! :p

We were able to squeeze in a lot of activities and by the end of the third day everyone's legs were beginning to feel the endless walking that had occured ever since we got ourselves into the beacon of mixed things on the Atlantic coast. From seeing art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA for short) to shopping at a discount department store situated only a block away from the WTC-hole (they're just making the foundations for the future buildings, so it's merely a gigantic hole in the middle of the finance centre of NY), and having an oriental dinner at Chinatown (...and an Italian dinner in Little Italy:), our trip was a flexibly structured mixture of everything the city had to offer. And to think that we barely scratched the surface...

Leaving Aman hang to dry at the UN Building (sorry, mate!), we headed to the Brooklyn Bridge and enjoyed the wonderful views the structure had to offer. A breathtaking walk indeed. On our way we were able to eat lunch at a traditional American diner and see the Gotham-cityish City Hall.

After seeing the same facilities that top politicians use, e.g. the General Assembly Council, we decided that it was time to enhance the relations between India and Finland. After many bottles of consumed Bacardi 151 and Canadian Sola white wine, the successful and warm-hearted negotiations between the two middle-sized nations came to a happy end in front of the UN emblem.

Chillin' in da Big Apple.

Some of the veterans of road trippin' pose in front of the New York Stock Exchange. The weather was beautiful during our entire trip which meant that no umbrellas that had been forgotten in Kingston were missed. One cell phone, on the other hand, was left behind. No one will ever know where it was lost, but to our knowledge, it's still out there. Someday, Kaisa, it'll find its way back home.

One is a bit in awe of Times Square, when they're introduced to it for the first time. It's a good mixture of pop culture icons as well as everything superficial in America. Other places which we we're able to visit and experience included a bar called "Off The Wagon" in Greenwich Village, where you basically go just to fall of the wagon with 7$ pitchers *enter drum solo*, Fifth Avenue, a surprisingly bad Broadway show called Christmas Spectacular (for me the show was a spectacular piece of sh*t!), and the soothing atmosphere of Central Park.