New York, New York!

I haven't posted since we got here unfortunately because now I think I've forgotten a lot of the nice things I'd noticed. We're staying in a really lovely part of Harlem in a house where if you put a penny on the ground it rolls rather quickly towards the wall. In all seriousness though it's really lovely, relatively inexpensive (New York accommodation is *very* expensive last minute), quiet and with lots of natural light which I love. There's computer in each room too which is very handy for the laptopless traveller. The pic on the frontpage is of the room I'm in right now. It's lovely. It is called MichaelNY . I could even learn English here if I wanted, how useful :). So we've done some touristy things, walked around Central Park in which Padraig got some good pics for his steps series, went to the MoMA which is really interesting and I think one of the best modern art museums I've been to, tried to get to South Ferry to get the Staten Island ferry to see old Lady Liberty but were thwarted, went to a huge M&Ms shop with every kind of merchandise imaginable, saw some sealions do tricks at the aquarium, went on the boardwalk at Coney Island, had numerous pints in various Irish pubs, saw the Rockefeller centre ice rink covered in tables and marquees, peered at the city from the Empire State Building, went on the Subway at 3 a.m and didn't get mugged, had some lovely icecream in Madison square park, saw the giant Piano in FAO Schwarz and the suicidal Lego people in the nearby lego diorama of New York, ate some beautiful Carribbean, Japanese, French and Chinese food and pizza within days, went to Chinatown, hung out in the Dominican community in Spanish Harlem (well with our Irish friends and their new roommate from L.A), drank some mate and sake with the lads, got peanutbutter M&Ms, saw Carmina Burana at Carnegie Hall, cheap food, cheap drink. Fantastic. So there ends my little summary of the past few days. This could be the last post I make in the blog. I hope not, I'm sure I'm missing something. In short I really like New York, you can truly do anything here at any time of day. Maybe I should live here too :). Til next time! I'm gonna put up some new pics too.