Monday, October 20, 2008
After the group of us partied the night away, we caught a few hours of sleep before we headed off for another long day..
1st stop was the infamous Central Park!
I was thinking all about the Central Park murder case that I studied just a few days ago before the trip, hehe. But the park was really really beautiful!
They had an indoor zoo!! But I only caught a glimpse of the seals...
The park was crowded- packed with tourists and joggers. The moms here jog while pushing their babies along in their prams! Isn't that cool!
Me: " Hi, do you happen to know where the Apple store is ?"
Officer: *gave an extremely puzzled look* Erm... I don't think there is an apple store around here"
Yuankai: " The store selling MacBooks...?"
Officer: " Oh, you're looking for the book store?"...
Me: " - _- ||| " Noo no no. It's the shop that sells MacBooks, iPods...."
After a long silence...
Officer: " OH. THAT Apple Shore...." (burst out laughing..)
The officer really thought we were really looking for apples amongst the high-end shops of 5th avenue leh!
Oh well, but we found the Apple store in the end! And I'm still tempted to get my hand on the iPod nano chromatic...
The bus drove us to explore Chinatown too....
While the others decided to do some shopping... Me Geraldine and the 2 guys decided to indulge in some good Chinese food instead.
Why didn't I go shopping? Because most of the stuff on sale were fakes.. And I really didn't want to spend my money on those...
It was pretty dramatic when people got lost in Chinatown and didn't meet back at the subway station at the agreed time. To our u
tmost horror, we found that the only 3 people who were there, were precisely the only people with handphones that were charged. Some of them didn't bring their phones, others' phones had flat batteries! So we had to wait and wait and wait... Truddy and Andrew went off in search of a toilet, but they were lost too.....
(you get the drama)
But in the end, all ended well, and we found each other... And headed back to Times Square for the night.
Then, it was back to Times Square.
A lot of drama happened again when we couldn't get our Broadway tickets, and Geraldine was visibly upset because she really wanted to catch the show "Chicago"...The group of us split up and we both went off to check out the huge Toys R' Us store they had here. We spent like 3 hours there because there was just so much to see.
Check out this candy! It's like dog food lor!
The group of us met again at 1030, and headed back to the hotel for a popcorn party! Ended up playing ugly doll and bridge for hours!
After that, we plonked back to sleep, because we were so so exhausted.
Headed back to Toronto, bright and early the next morning. But not before stopping by a factory outlet store!!! Because we were rushing for time, we were only given 2 hours!
I guess that helped curb our spending as well lah. But everyone went pretty crazy and I was like running from store to store.
Geraldine bought like 4 Coach Bags! And the coach was instantly filled with huge shopping bags!
Oh well... :)That pretty much sums up my trip to New York.
It was amazing to have been there, but part of me misses Toronto for its serenity...
Looking forward to more trips to come!
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