America. Post Four. New York.

A little story about a whale a fish and a crab....

Last Sunday most of the Internationals at camp went to New York, we all travelled in together but went our separate ways when we got to Penn station as we all had different things that we wanted to do. Sarah, Ryan and I wanted to go see some of the sights in Lower Manhattan. When we first got to New York we had a look outside and a quick peek inside of the Empire State Building. I didn't go up it this time as I am going to save it for when I am in New York for five days or so.
Literally within five minutes of being in New York we passed about six Irish pubs, my Dad always says that if you out all the Irish pubs over the World back in Ireland it would sink.

Sarah and I lost Ryan for a coupe of minutes, and then he came running out of a pub... and we agreed it was in everyone's best interest to go back inside the bar and watch the New Zealand game. We found a New Zealander in there and there were also a group of very noisy Italians.... who I am not convinced have ever been to Italy. Matt (the New Zealander) was hilarious.... and very much into the game. When New Zealand and Italy were drawn and there was still i love sandwiches  time left Ryan was shaking like a leaf. Bless his cotton socks... it was so sweet and funny.

So when the final result was a draw, Ryan was beyond ecstatic as it just was not expected of New Zealand at all. It was the perfect start. After the game... we stepped outside and it was so sunny and warm it was unbelievable seeing as it had been raining beforehand. We were proper happy and giggly skipping around the streets.

We decided to walk to lower Manhattan via fifth avenue... this of course lead us to the Museum of Sex. Bloody hilarious place, with a very impressive dildo sculpture. We only went around the shop section, admiring the books, postcards and vibrators.

Whilst walking towards China Town, we bumped into a a lady who used to go to the camp we work at fifty years ago. Mental. anyway... the heat got ridiculous towards the middle of the day so we found ourselves a lovely little Chinese place in China Town and met the others there for lunch. It had Air Condition and was freakin' DELICIOUS. very very yummy. It was called 69 and awesome.

the conversation between Sj, Ryan and myself just progressively got more and more rude and sex orientated. Not entirely sure why, just the way things went.... but it did result in several bouts of the giggles.

After Chinese, because of how hot it was we decided to get the free Statton Island Ferry there and back... to get a looky at the Statue of Liberty. Twas weird seeing it for real... and not with some master mind criminal climbing up it with a bomb and with several helicopters shooting at him.... (movies are definitely realistic.)

It cooled down quite a bit, we had a look around ground Zero - and at the little church next to it, which is very sweet. Then for dinner in Little Italy with the biggest damn pizza I have ever seen. I couldn't finish it.. and for me that is very upsetting and weird. I felt like I let Ella down. We then grabbed a cab to Union Square and ran around like loony's trying not to get run over so that we could find a cinema.

We went to see Karate Kid, with Cokes bigger than my head, and it was awesome. I cried from start to finish. Though the three of us got freaked out when we saw that I had a missed call from my boss and one of our housemates. The film finished at midnight (much later than we anticipated) and we then were rushing to get back to the station....

we thought we were going to be in trouble for not being back or for not being contact or something, and then we had the wrong train timetable so had to wait an extra hour for a train home. The the cab man from the station to the house was just rude and argumentative. What a twathead. So we finally got in at 3am and we had to be up for work at seven am... it was not a pleasant morning. Sigh. However it was an AMAZING day and i love how beautiful New York is, I could happily spend many days there just wandering around. It is completely crazy of course, but I wouldn't expect it to be any different. I;m so tired I can't really explain how much  I loved this trip to New York. And I had the best company ever....the whale, fish and the crab actually had the best time. Lots of giggles... and food.


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