On a New York Monday….

We woke up at 7:30am and went next door to EuroPan for breakfast. I didn’t sleep too good the night before. My foot felt okay, but still hurt from all of the walking and standing that I had to do at the airport the day before.

This is me trying to get a photo while we were driving past….and that’s why it’s only half a picture

We met in the lobby of the hotel around 8 o’clock, piled onto the bus and headed out to the Empire State Building.

We got our own buses for everywhere we went. The Empire State Building has 102 floors total. We just went up the 86th Floor Observatory.

We looked around the Observatory and then went back inside and went down to the 80th floor where the gift shop is. I picked up some souvenirs there for my family. Then we went to the Skyride which is basically a moving chair and a movie but makes you think you are looking out of a helicopter. You see all the different tourist attractions around New York. They still include the Twin Towers because they were a part of New York and they don’t want them to be forgotten.

Taken from the 86th floor Observatory

We went back to the main floor, piled back on the bus and went to Mickey’s Mantle which is a restaurant owned by a guy who likes baseball. There we were fed what I like to think of as a family style buffet, where they brought a bunch of food out in large quantities.

After that we were gonna go for a carriage ride, but it ended up getting too hot for the horses. So instead we went back to the hotel (our rooms were on either of two floors, 37 and 39, and there was a suite on floor 42 that was kinda like a common room area where there were TVs and board games and cards and couches and we could use our computers I later found out.) At first I went to my room and read while I iced me ankle, but then I got bored and went to the suite, where I played cheat, and won, then Scrabble, and won by like at least double everyone else. Then we had to clean up fast and head back to the lobby to go to a Chinese restaurant that I din’t catch the name of.

An interesting thing I saw when I was there was; there are McDonald’s EVERYWHERE!!! Like one on every block.

There were some pretty interesting signs in New York!

At the Chinese place we had another family style buffet type meal, then walked a block or two down the street to the Blue Man Group.

It was so AMAZING!!!

OK, so a few years ago in Abbotsford, in Elementary school, there was a group of guys that came to our school, they had all these tubes and bicycle wheels and tons of stuff that you’d find in a junk yard. And they’d found a way to use these things to make music. The Blue Man Group was like that only like 100 times better, and they found a way to add colour and to make it look kind of techno and add, like, a mime-ness to it, the Blue Men didn’t talk or make noise themselves, they used the tubes and pipes and things. They got the audience to go up, and they gave out paintings that they made right then, and near the end they had rolls of toilet paper attached to the roof and they got the audience to throw it foreword so it looked like really really long streamers while they used strobe lights, it looked SO SO SO COOL!!!!!

When the show was over we got pictures with the Blue Men, and I bought a t-shirt and a Blue Man CD to take home.

Then we went back to the hotel where we had to go straight to our rooms, it was like, 11pm, and get ready for bed. Me and my roommate, Mia, watched some TV, and ended up actually going to sleep around 1/4 to 1, and that was my first day at New York.

To see the rest of the pictures from Monday, click here!