All I can say about New York City is “wow”. What a city. I found myself not wanting to return back to Florida after spending time in NYC. Here is a quick summary of what was accomplished:

• Helicopter flight around Manhattan
• Boat cruise around statue of Liberty
• Saw an off-broadway production “Slava’s snowshow”
• Saw a lot of of the districts in Manhattan - Soho, Meatpacking district (nightclubs are big there), Harlem, Times Square, Chinatown, Financial district… the list goes on and on
• Walked across Brooklyn bridge
• Saw comedy acts at Dangerfield’s club
• Jazz at a place called “Smalls”
• A funky salsa-like band at a place called “Cafe Wha”
• Museums including the Intrepid, Guggenheim and museum of modern design.
• Walked though Central Park
• Went up the Empire state building
• Tour through NBC studios
• Whilst travelling on the subway, saw the following: some guys doing flips in the middle of the car; some mexicans playing some mariachi-like music; a guy with a bass guitar playing “my girl”; a preacher woman telling us all to repent.

I did not in fact get to see any of the shows like Dave Letterman, the Daily Show nor in fact did we get our mugs on the Today show (that turned out to be way too early in the morning). The shows actually required a little more planning to see. There is always next time I guess, and there definitely will be a next time. Hopefully for an even longer time :-)

Photos have been uploaded to Flickr here, more below

My long, long, long time friend Steve W called me from Australia just before I was due to leave for New York to inform me that he was now engaged to Carrie. This didn’t come as a shock to me at all of course. But heck, it does make me smile a bit when I think back a few years to a particular pub crawl… Steve did you really know what you were getting yourself into? Haha! I kid, I kid :-)

Again, congratulations!

Well, I actually leaving tomorrow, but *finally* I am heading off to New York. This ain’t a real short trip either as a friend and I are going to be there for 6 straight days. This is also the most unprepared I’ve ever been for a trip as well, in terms of planning what things to see and do. But I really don’t think too much preparation is needed, right? Apart from the obvious places to visit (statue of liberty, times square, empire state building, yadda yadda yadda) these are some of the other things I want to do:

1. Watch “The Daily Show”.
2. Watch the David Letterman show.
3. Get our mugs on NBC morning news.

There are other things, can’t remember them at the moment, maybe I should plan this better…