Leaves to avoid argument number 2 and let's Laura sleep and
then casually prepare for the day.
Mary returns after skip diving. A board is found to make a placard for the potential Brother Fox music video to be filmed on the 'Earth-Cam' at Times Square. Well done Booth!
Buffalo Vintage Exchange Expedition. Booth buys a nice hat which now seems permanently glued to her head. Laura buys pretty dress number 3. To make a bit of money we're thinking of taking some of our UK clothes to Buffalo Exchange to make some spare dough. It's a great idea for clothes shop and a great shop.
Time to get lost. Our first subway experience. Ooooo - it's air conditioned. Oh My! It's clean. Take note London. We navigate successfully from Driggs Ave to Union Sq where we come across our first social activists; Hey Albany, transit isn't your money train! Check out their website. Www.riderrebellion.org. "Stop the price hike".
Right, to consume in Union Sq:
- jeans ( no importation required thanks mummy Booth)
- flip-flops
- iced latte
- blackberry charger
- i-pod charger
- whoopie pie
- camera (unsuccessful)
Mary keeps getting hot fella's smiling at her. Here comes number 3.
Right! To the Highline, waint, no turn aorund, straight on, left at 5th, are you sure? Yes. Onto West W 14th St, Ooooo Chelsea Hotel is 7 blocks away. Let's go! This road isn't supposed ot be here. Are you sure? No. Ok, let's keep going. Shit. We're lost!
We've walked past Chelsea, Greenwich and encroached onto Soho. What a mission on a gammy foot.
Let's plan out day better next time.
We've noticed each area of New York have their own very distinctive feel, even neighbouring districts.
We end up on McDougal St and dine at the Olive Tree.
Event of the century. We ask for a Bud each and the waitress ask if she can see our ID.
Laura " how old are you Mary? nearly 35?"
Mary "mmm mmmm"
ALRIGHT!
The Olive Tree is so-so. Meh. Not bad. We leave.
The Big Black Pussy Cat. Apparently the best open mike in the world. With gospel, rnb and funk acts, and according the the doorman it's great.
Mary look up. What? Look up! Ooooooo!
Blue Note Jazz Club, photo opportunity and the only touristy thing we've seen today. $35 for entertianment. $20 to use the bar, but we're going to see the free Blue Note music event for thier 30th Anniversary in Central Park on the 11th June. Can't wait.
Back around.4 Rum and cokes at Stanes Ale House. Errrrr Mary Booth, are those Geordy accents? Ah yes. Mmmmm. They sound nice.
Laura says she wouldn't livein Greenwhcih. That she prefers Willimasburg. Mary says she could if she met a rich man.
Do the prices keep going up in this bar the longer we stay? Are they inadvertantly asking us to leave?
Smile number 4. Guitar toting bowler :-)
We see military boys and girls promenading the streets in their sailor suits. No lack of attention from the local girls. All the nice girls love a sailor.
A saunter to the subway. It feels ghetto. Boys shooting b-ball outside the school.
So, we catch the wrong subway train. We chanced a connection. We knew we'd catch the right train at Union Sq but, no, we took a chance, took a chance, took a chance chance and messed up.The subways often make no sense.
We've mastered London and Barcelona undergounds but New York remains illusive.
Lucky Dog. A bar on Bedford. It's the Rabbit Hole's second favorite after themselves. It's cool. It's hip. It's moody. It's got a nice beer garden. All important beer garden. Fizzy golden ale for our fizzy golden souls. Ahhhhhhh.
We're in search of some new souls to meet but the Luck Dog isn't lucky for us. Too salty. So Mary keeps calling it the Salty Dog. Ho Ho.
Quotes of the Day
"We even sell none physical spectacles. You don't even know you're wearing em"
"What's up Doc?"
"A boy bouncing 3 basketballs"
"does bum mean fanny like fanny means bum? Because I called someone a bum head earlier and they might have thought I meant fanny head "
I think bum means something completely different.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather be a fanny than a bum walking the streets of New York...
Miss yous plenty.
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