8th March, Too cold…

 

A rather small Statue of liberty…

Time square classic.

Brooklyn bridge from brooklyn, you can’t tell how cold it really is!

From the brooklyn bridge…

From the empire state building.

Madison Square Garden, Big East (or something) 2 matches lasted in total 5hours. Bloody ‘timeouts’.

I cannot beleive how cold it is here, I know I have been chasing the sun for almost a year but this is ridiculous. It’s much colder than england from my recolection but I havn’t been back for a while. I never suffered from having to run into a warm building because it was too cold outside…

Anyway, been having a good time here. No crazy partying apart from Lisa’s birthday weekend were we finished off the rest of the alcohol we had taken from Cancun’s all inclusive including that tequila we had won from bingo – which we basically give away to moe hardcore drinkers.

Had a strange experience being dragged along to a beauty salon as Lisa had signed up for a whole load of girly stuff, so I had to come along as they did men’s cuts and needed one. Didn’t realise I would have be given a ‘golden’ robe to put on (tres gay – I was feeling gay enough!) but soon didn’t mind as the place was heaving with women and I was the only guy…

Been over the Brooklyn Bridge, did a couple of tours around the city including booklyn, got some good night shots etc, went to a comedy club – funny stuff, went to see the lion king on broadway which was awesome and all the other touristy things like the empire state building and also went through a tour of ‘gound zero’ (as the media coin it) which was really touching as the tour guides were people involved and one had lost her firefighter son. Also went to a basket ball match at madison sq. gardens for something called the big east – we wanted to get tickets for some ice hockey (see some fights!) but got tickets for this which apparently we were quite lucky to get. All good fun but american ‘time-outs’ get ridiculous, with 2mins of play that can last 20 minutes with either teams calling for ‘Time-outs’ and subsistutions. It was becoming a joke at 13sec left of play and even 3 sec left of play….

So plan on checking out the place were John Lennon was shot and the tribute at central park and doing some ice skating at the rockefella centre in the next few days. Still far too cold…