New York City: Day 3

Some other observations about New York:

• NY bus system... not as hot as the subway, at least near Times Square. Jeff, John & I officially outwalked it.
  
• NY tap water, best damn tap water around!
  
• Manhattan = One Giant Tourist Trap. Not that I mind.
  
• Getting tickets for Broadway musicals are: a) expensive, and b) a big pain in the ass. Chuck stood out in Times square for four hours to find that all the musicals he wanted to go to was unavailable, although he was able to get student rush tickets for BKLYN, which he says was amazing.
  

Yesterday I escorted Jeff from La Guardia to the apartment. I was initiated by taking M60 bus to La Guardia, second guessing and got off to go the other way, to only find out I was right in the first place. So a trip that should have only taken half an hour took an hour and a half. Oh well, I know where the rest of Harlem is.

By the way, small world this is. So myself, Jackie, Jeff, & one of Jeff's friends from Spain and her friend are having dinner in this Indian Cafe near Columbia. So apparently she's originally from California but currently working and living in New York. Interesting. So I find out she's from Alameda. Really interesting. What school did she go to? St. Joseph's. Pause.

WHAT?!?!!?

So apparently, she went to the elementary school that was smack dab in the center of my alma mater, St. Joseph Notre Dame High School. She's an Ariate, and her brother was at the high school at the same time as my sister Michelle. In fact, she remember my sister quite well, including her long hair that went to the nape of her back. So after that we just rattled off names that we both knew for like 2 minutes! I never see people from my high school just randomly, especially since we were only a community of about 700 students at any given time (high school AND elementary), so that made my day.

Today was more low key, Chuck was grounded for a good half the day due to some swelling in his legs from the cold of yesterday. I thought it was a good chance to rest up, so I stayed with him and watched Napoleon Dynamite on my laptop (extremely dorky & hilarious!). Around 4 we both left, with Chuck going to meet up with half my friends who were going to watch Brook Shields in Wonderful Town. With the other half of friends going to The Producers, and me being too lazy to stand in line for tickets, I was on my own. I decided to trek on my own to Union Square and NYU. It was cool; I discovered a small row of businesses on St. Mark's in East Village that reminded me a lot of Berkeley: lots of souvenir shops, used music places, a comic book shop, a used video game shop, and some cool restaurants. Had some great pizza and strawberry NY cheesecake on the corner of St. Mark's & 2nd Ave.

Now I’m off to take in some night life. Woo hoo!