Yep I felt the same excitement, the same wierd happy feeling of taking my first step in the big city, and if you are still guessing which city am I talking about, its NY. Yep the city of blinding lights, the city that never sleeps, a city full of people, a city of sidewalks, coffee shops, restaurants, hot-dogs, sheish kabak (yep you get it at most of the hot-dog stall, and its good too). The first step i walked into NY was a great experience but the best was yet to come.....
Thanks jigi for checking out my blog and poking at me that i havent updated it in a long time...thanks for getting here and reading it, and most of all thanks for the NY tour and ofcourse thanks to everyone else who accompanied us in NY (Shailes you too).
I know i am not going to be able to write everything about my weekend in NY, but i will give it a shot.
So i landed in NY (or rather stepped out of the train in NY, but "landed" gives it the style) after a comfortable journey of 3hrs appx. Jigi had chalked out the entire route for me, what trains i need to take from what station, where to get down and everything, but thats jigi, always well organised. One things for sure, if we had the subways/PATH in india it would have been much simpler for tourists to figure the directions, but then who needs them, we have got ppl (manpower) in india. You can ask any panwalla for directions and they will tell you the shortest and the fatest route to go places.
So then jigar cooked up a hearty meal for us, mung-masala and garlic bread. The dinner was a rush as we had a movie to catch "Ice age 2: Meltdown". for the first time after coming to US did i see 25+ indians sitting together in a movie theater and passing commentts and having fun. The movie was great, in fact the shot that i liked the most is the one where the mammoth is walking away from his girl and the 2 possoms (i am sure this is not the correct spelling) walk along with their sis. Then one of them whistles at the mammoth and gestures the peace sign (v fingers) at him and turns back in style. Man its the best scene in the movie, its got more style than what John Woo could have directed ;)
Day 1:
We had planned to wake up early and visit SoL (Statue of Liberty) and then a couple of other places. But then plans are ment to go awry. So we woke up late and reached SoL but on our way we visited the American Stock Exchange, the Trinity church, Ground Zero, NYSE.
The boat ride to the SoL was great, looking at the city from the sea was a great view and so was the tour of SoL. We couldnt climb the stairs to the foot of SoL coz that requires prior reservations, so if you are planning to visit it then make the reservations well in advance.
In the evening we walked the Brooklyn bridge end-to-end and then headed to Darshan's place, where Mukul had made us wonderful uttapas. Then we all took off to the Times Square, visited a couple of cool malls/shops on our way there and then ended up in Hollywood Planet. We had a great discussion over dinner (those who were at the table, know what I am talking about) and then headed back home. I have missed out a lot of details but this is all i could cramup in this post, just to mention we also rode the bull and hung by the Dot.
All in all it was one hell of a day....
Day2:
We met up with Sandy and had lunch with couple of his friends at an Indian restaurant, i guess the name was Amia's or something like that. But the most imp thing of all was that we played XBOX on a 62" TV or was it 53" whatever it was a huge television set. Man it was tooo.......mind boggling ;) It was soon time to return.....so i guess thats all.
