Thanksgiving weekend - New York City (Part 1)
Monday, November 27, 2006
So week 6 started with a trip to New York City to celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the secondees there. Mike and Deshan flew into Boston from Detroit and arrived on Wednesday and then we all took the Chinatown Bus to NYC (only $15 each way!) on Wednesday evening.
We got dropped of in Chinatown (we first got taken down to chinatown) and then we caught a taxi to the apartments where we were staying. We met up at a place called the "Sway" lounge, the sign outside said McGovern's Tavern but the bouncer said it was called Sway? As we were going inside a lady rushed out and said to the bouncer not to let any more men in cause its full - luckily we had booked a table so we got let in, but when we got it there were like 6 other people inside? And it stayed like that all night!! So there weren't tons of people but we ended up having a huge one.
The next morning we rose at about 9am to a rainy day. We went straight to times square for the Thanksgiving Parade of which we caught about an hour of, but it was pouring with rain. We met up with Aneen and Joy (secondees from SA living in NY) for lunch at Planet Hollwood in Times Square which was awesome, the food was great - deshtroyed a bacon and cheese burger.
After that we took a walk around, we saw the Rockafeller centre and the ice rink below it, but it started raining harder so we went to a small pub and had a few beers for the rest of the arvy.
That night we got invited to a Thanksgiving dinner (including turkey) with a friend of a friend from SA. Her place was in New Jersey and we caught the subway which is located just below Ground Zero. Ground Zero is crazy - it is a massive hole, the buildings must have been enormous, it must have been unreal to be there at that time.
The dinner was great, we packed in turkey, dessert and some Bacardi. On the way back it was raining again and we ran into a guy taking his dog for a walk and the dog had a raincoat - priceless.
When we got home at about 12, the girls went to bed so we decided to hit the town. We caught a taxi which we drove around in until we found an open club, which happened to be a Jazz Club with a live band. We watched them for about 1 song and became their biggest fans. We then on the way out found another club called the Asylum and we had a few more drinks there and sang Karaoke including "New York, New York". We were terrible but it was too fun. We then got swept out at about 4:30am and we went back to the apartment where we met up with a guy from SA who invited us for some vodka and orange juice. At 6am after no sleep yet I headed back into New York cause the biggest sales started at 6 (day after thanksgiving), when I got there the shop was closed! Bad idea - it seemed like a good one at the time.
Finally I got to bed at about 8am and we woke up at about 11 to go have lunch with Steve who used to go to Boys High with us. We went to TGI Fridays in 5th Avenue. The food was okay. We then walked around the city (saw the Empire State). The streets were packed, you can hardly walk. Later we went back down to Chinatown to catch a bus back to Bosty.
The short two days we were there was great, I will take more pics of the sites when we go again over New Years.
Check out the gallery.
We got dropped of in Chinatown (we first got taken down to chinatown) and then we caught a taxi to the apartments where we were staying. We met up at a place called the "Sway" lounge, the sign outside said McGovern's Tavern but the bouncer said it was called Sway? As we were going inside a lady rushed out and said to the bouncer not to let any more men in cause its full - luckily we had booked a table so we got let in, but when we got it there were like 6 other people inside? And it stayed like that all night!! So there weren't tons of people but we ended up having a huge one.
The next morning we rose at about 9am to a rainy day. We went straight to times square for the Thanksgiving Parade of which we caught about an hour of, but it was pouring with rain. We met up with Aneen and Joy (secondees from SA living in NY) for lunch at Planet Hollwood in Times Square which was awesome, the food was great - deshtroyed a bacon and cheese burger.
After that we took a walk around, we saw the Rockafeller centre and the ice rink below it, but it started raining harder so we went to a small pub and had a few beers for the rest of the arvy.
That night we got invited to a Thanksgiving dinner (including turkey) with a friend of a friend from SA. Her place was in New Jersey and we caught the subway which is located just below Ground Zero. Ground Zero is crazy - it is a massive hole, the buildings must have been enormous, it must have been unreal to be there at that time.
The dinner was great, we packed in turkey, dessert and some Bacardi. On the way back it was raining again and we ran into a guy taking his dog for a walk and the dog had a raincoat - priceless.
When we got home at about 12, the girls went to bed so we decided to hit the town. We caught a taxi which we drove around in until we found an open club, which happened to be a Jazz Club with a live band. We watched them for about 1 song and became their biggest fans. We then on the way out found another club called the Asylum and we had a few more drinks there and sang Karaoke including "New York, New York". We were terrible but it was too fun. We then got swept out at about 4:30am and we went back to the apartment where we met up with a guy from SA who invited us for some vodka and orange juice. At 6am after no sleep yet I headed back into New York cause the biggest sales started at 6 (day after thanksgiving), when I got there the shop was closed! Bad idea - it seemed like a good one at the time.
Finally I got to bed at about 8am and we woke up at about 11 to go have lunch with Steve who used to go to Boys High with us. We went to TGI Fridays in 5th Avenue. The food was okay. We then walked around the city (saw the Empire State). The streets were packed, you can hardly walk. Later we went back down to Chinatown to catch a bus back to Bosty.
The short two days we were there was great, I will take more pics of the sites when we go again over New Years.
Check out the gallery.
