Week 11

Week 11
Boston and New York
This week at work was not to bad. Back onsite at the Power company but I was in charge so we were working my hours. The work was pretty easy so I just cruised. Matt had no work and was continuously emailing me until he found out he had to go to Germany for 10 days as his client had a German subsidiary that needed internal testing done.

The guys in New York were out of town this weekend so we organized to stay at their house in NYC for the weekend.

We left work at around 4pm and traffic was hell. Friday night traffic is bad anywhere and Boston roads are pretty crazy. We stopped in at Connecticut and picked up Jason. Jason is living in a Hilton apartment but unfortunately there is no Paris. His place is pretty sweet though. Fifty Cent owns a massive crib about 1 mile up the road. It used to be Mike Tyson’s but he had to sell it and fifty bought it. The real G Unit wanted to check out the G Unit’s place but we didn’t have time.

Matt had a kip in the back seat and The Old Fella navigated me into Manhattan. We managed to find a park on 12 St about 2 blocks from where we were staying and we unloaded then went for a walk to times square. By the time we got Times Square it was almost midnight, so we got some food and just walked around. There were stretch hummers everywhere and every other kind of crazy car. There was even a party bus and we tried to get on to catch a lift back to our house, but to no avail. Was reminiscent of the Bus Ditch and I chased in Sorrento.

We got home about 1.30 and I slept until about 10. Saturday was a cracking day, about 15c and sunny. We got up, had a massive brunch and made our way all the way downtown to Battery Park. We wanted to see the statue of Liberty but there were heaps of lines and they were massive. Cause the weather was so good everyone was out and the line was going to be at least and hour. We also went to Ground zero again. Still a massive hole. This time we hung around and read all the signs, pretty interesting.

Then we went up fifth Avenue to the Empire State Building. There was a 2 hour wait for the viewing deck but if you took a virtual helicopter ride and the deck observation combo the wait was only 30 minutes. Obviously that cost a bit more but it was worth it. The virtual tour was a helicopter ride over New York which was narrated by..... Kevin Bacon. Looks like things have been a bit flat for Kevin since Hollow Man. The ride was pretty good though they explained all the main points of NYC.

The view was awesome. Say no more. I took a crap load of photos. Looking straight down was a bit daunting though. You realize the size of the place, massive.

Then we drove Matt to the airport as he was flying to Germany for work for 10 days. Sat night traffic in NYC was nuts and JFK airport was massive also. It took us an hour to get a park back at NYC but we got one. Then Jase and I set about demolishing some Jim Beam and hit a couple of pubs. We just took the piss out of heaps of Americans and some locals loved us. They thought we were hilarious so we lapped it up.

Got home late and I was on baggygreen getting the Aus V SA cricket scores thinking Australia can’t lose this game..... What the f_ _ _ happened there? Old fella passed out hanging off the couch and that’s where he stayed.

Had lunch a nice looking cafe and sitting in the both next to us was Craig Hutchison. Unfortunately he and his mate looked like they were coming off big nights so he wasn’t able to give us any good scoops except that Nathan Ablett is supposed to be pretty good. That’s not really a scoop Hutchy! KL has given me better info than that.

We went up fifth Avenue and to uptown and central park on Sunday. It was a little overcast but still fairly warm, relative, about 10c. Central Park was awesome, massive park right in the middle of the city. It is so quiet, quite amazing really. There is all sorts of stuff in the park too, a lake, a reservoir, a cafe, lawns, swings, a zoo, an old castle, statues a plenty, and I could go on........ i could just start naming athletes alphabetically and I will Aldo, Alonzo, Adrianna... Special. Ok I don’t know where I was going with that one.

We then walked down 5th Avenue home and just about every designer brand was there, Gucci, Tiffany, Versace, Bvlgari and the stores went on and on. We found the Trump Tower and Jason Got Fired.

We also found playboy headquarters. And then there were the churches. There was 3 church’s within a few hundred metres. They were impressive but by far and away the best was St Paul’s. It is the most well known and it was the biggest. We went inside and there was a prayer on. No cameras allowed inside which is a shame cause the place was amazing. Massive inside with huge stain glass windows, marble floors and the detail on the place was incredible. Dropped Jason back in C town and got home by 11pm. I was stuffed and slept like a baby.