New York Update

Apologies for the lack of recent updates, but with Rosie visiting for two weeks I’ve been far too busy doing things to write about any of them! Unfortunately Rosie has now gone back to Cambridge leaving me with little excuse to put off various work-related tasks any longer… 🙁 A quick summary of touristy-things we did:

  • One Wednesday we abandoned our regular footie game to experiment with two other forms of football, American and rugby (both in their “touch” form, not full-contact!). After much confusion of these games’ horrendously complicated rules, we decided to stick to the beautiful game.
  • We went to see some live music—a festival of top Chicago bands— at the famous Arlene’s Grocery. (We even got to meet one of the bands as my colleague’s uncle was the lead singer of one of them!)
  • We did a weekend of intensive tourism in Washington D.C. (more on that in another post).
  • We hung out and window shopped in SoHo (there’s an Apple Store… so many beautiful gadgets!)
  • We took a ‘Lights of New York’ cruise around Manhatten to admire the pretty buildings all lit up. (This was really impressive as you get a very different perspective a couple of hundred metres off the island compared to when you’re actually in amongst it all!)
  • We saw the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 at baseball (I’m still not convinced this is actually a sport: absolutely nothing happens for long periods of time, then there are a few plays of incredible tension, then it’s time for a change and the atmosphere is gone… Nice excuse to hang out with friends and drink beer though!)
  • We partied with my colleagues, including a trip to Cafe Wha for more great music, amongst other places.
  • We ate some very good Italian food!

All-in-all, it was a very busy, but highly enjoyable two weeks — work can get so busy sometimes it was nice to have someone else to organise my social life for me!

2 Responses to “New York Update”

  1. Rosie Says:

    I quite liked organising your social life for you, I wonder if I can turn that into some kind of job? (Not working for you obviously, as that’s not going to increase our combined income very much!) New York and Washington were fantastic fun, but two solid weeks of sight-seeing are enough for me for another year. So maybe I should stop swanning around going to circuses (the Chinese State Circus was very impressive!) and the cinema (as a major fan of Firefly I definately want to see Serenity) and look for a job!

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