The Big Apple

Yesterday, I ventured into one of the most famous cities on the planet ... NYC! We started our day at 3:00 a.m. and were on the road by 4:00. We drove through Connecticut and Rhode Island, and made it into the city by 8:00 (after getting slighty turned around in Harlem!) My cousin Larry works at the American Museum of Natural History as an electrician, so we parked our car there for the day and headed to to SUBWAY! It's quick, and saves a lot of $ money on gas, but I'm from the suburbs, and when that train started to rock, I did too. Apart from that, the best part of the train ride was watching an old black man evangelise to all the people in the station. My favorite part of being there is the diversity. I was no longer the minority (: Our first stop was Times Square/Broadway. It wasn't as big as I had imagined, but it was certainly BUSY.
I kept getting walked in to! I bought some shirts from a street vendor, and we headed to Starbucks and then back on the train to Ground Zero. It's crazy that almost seven years after 9/11, you can still feel the gloominess. There were people working at the site, so we couldn't get a very close view. I was more upset then, than I was seven years ago when I first heard about the attacks. Maybe it was just because I was at the place where everything happened. After that, we got back on the train, and sat in Central Park. We were much too tired to be walking around in there. Cousin Larry met us for lunch and we ate the the Chirping Chicken, and then headed over to the museum with him (the place where Night at the Museum was filmed!) It's so big! Everything in there is awesome. We watched an IMAX film on dinosaurs, which I'm sure was great, but I fell asleep, oops! We had to be back in Boston that night, so we said good-byes to Larry, and headed back. That's where the real fun began! We only printed directions to NYC, not back! We asked about 10 cars how to get back to the interstate , and we got about 10 different answers. We ended up getting lost in the middle of Harlem during rush-hour, and please belive me when I say this, people will try to sell you anything to make some $ there! We got asked to buy bottles of water(which I'm pretty sure were already opened!), shoe shinings, bus tours(like 8990 times), bootleg movies/dvd's, everything! The only thing I regret not buying is a genuine weave from the Bronx. Somehow, after being up for 19 hours, we finally made it home. I <3 NY, but Boston wins, hands down :D