Hey everyone just a quick update that I just uploaded some jeni.pregnant pictures and some kye pictures, so enjoy.
Month: July 2006
New York Day 1
The adventure continues. I will eventually get through this I promise.
Our first full day in New York was used mainaly for me to get a grasp of the lay of the land. We started our day by looking for a place to eat breafast. We decided after our very expensive hamburger experience we would look for a diner of some kind to try out. We ended up eating at the Brooklyn Diner. Great breakfast, still a little expensive in my opinion, but really good food. It seemed to be one of those places that tries to claim that alot of celebrities ate there. The showed this by placing name plates at each booth of the celebrity that ate at that booth. we didn’t have anyone really cool, but George Stephanopolis had sat at the table next to ours, which I thought was cool.
After breakfast we took a walk into cenral park. This was really cool, and you can see all the pictures in the New York photo set I setup on flickr (see previous post). The picture for this post was taken in central park. I was very excited about catching this moment, and I thought it ended up really well. Much better than an untrained photographer should be able to take.
Anyways, after central park, we walked down 5th Avenue. And we came to the greatest place in New York. THE APPLE STORE. Ahh yes, it was everything I had hoped it would be. Amazing. That is where I did my post from the apple store. In retrospec I should have titled that entry…The Big Apple…but I didn’t oh well.
Moving on, the Apple Store was fun, but since I wasn’t buying anything it kind of ended there. But I will say this about that. I have a theory about the proposal to buy the land to build the store went like this.
Corporate Building Owner (CBO): Oh what a boring foyer area my building has.
Steve Jobs: Hey I want to build an Apple Store in New York that will be Awesome. Hey CBO you think I can buy your foyer, and build a store under ground?
CBO: Um, I guess so ,we aren’t using it for anything.
Steve Jobs: Great, don’t worry the store will look great, and it will be glass so it won’t block your building. Well It won’t block the first 4 floors atleast.
CBO: Sounds good
Steve Jobs: Oh BTW when the lease ends, I want the the cube back.
CBO: Okay, weirdo.
And that is pretty much how I think the conversation went. From there we went to FAO Schwartz cause it was right behind the Apple store. This was a pretty cool store. Both Jeni and I had been there before, but it changes all that time so it is cool. We walked around a bit, bu the hilights of the trip was, me playing DDR (and doing quie badly), Jeni having me ake a picture with a giant Yu-Gi-Oh statue, Jeni aking a picture with a Lego Hagrat, and me taking a picture with Lego Darth vader and Chewbacca. After we were done walking around FAO Schwartz we got the most giagantic milk shake I have ever seen in my life. It was a lot of fun.
At that point Jeni and I were begining to wear down so we went back to the hotel and rested a little bit. Later that night we went out to find another diner to get some food at, and we discovered our breakfast place, I will talk more about that in the next post.
So all in all Day 1 was very fun, we did quite a bit of walking, and saw some really cool stuff.
Baby Poll I
Hey everyone. I know Jeni and I haven’t been posting as much as some would like. So I decided to allow some user interaction. In honor of our ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby on August 2 I have put up a poll for the sex of the baby. As soon as we find out we will anounce the sex and everyone who was right can feel good about themself and everyone else can feel stupid.
New York Vacation
So this is a little delayed, but I figured I would go ahead and do some posting since I am having some issues sleeping. New York was alot of fun. We did a lot, but there was so much we didn’t do. I will just highlight my impressions, and I am sure Jeni will touch on hers on the baby blog.
First thing when we arrived I immediately noticed that JFK is no where near as nice as MCO (Orlando International Airport). I later found ot this is a trend in New York because LGA was just as unimpressive. After we got to the airport we collected our baggage, and when to find out how to get a shuttle to the hotel. I had to call the company because there was no attendant at the transportation booth. I still am not sure how, but for some reason Super Shuttle has my name as Nathan Daniel. Both drivers got on to me for not answering but they had my name wrong, why would I respond to Nathan.
The hotel was all about the location. I liked it, and I am not a pickey person, but for the money we spent I was expecting a little more than a poorly maintained howard johnson. Know I don’t want to give you the wrong impression, I was happy with the accomidations, but I noticed it was a little rough around the edges. We were however on 56th and 7th which is relatively close to a good chunk of manhatten so location was worth the money.
Day 0 was not so eventful. When we got to the hotel we found out 7th avenue was blocked off, which was cool cause there was an art festival of some kind going on, but it was not cool because we had to carry our luggage a block and a half to the hotel from where the taxi could drop us off. After we got situated we ended up walking down 7th ave to see what all was for sale in the art festival. There was some neat stuff but nothing that we decided to buy. The only other really exciting thing about Day 0 was that we paied 50 bucks for 2 hamburgers, fries, 1 soda, and tip at the Hotel restaurant. Now if this was a decent burger I wouldn’t mind. But this was a realy CRAPPY burger. It was on a kaiser roll, and it was not seasoned at all. Later that night we had our first experience at a local restuarant. We went to Ray’s Pizza. I had pizza Jeni got spaghetti. They were both very good, and I marked Goal 1 off of my list (Getting a Slice of Pizza).
That being said, I am going to save Day 1 – 7 for another restless night. I am going to start to have to blog shorter more frequent posts, otherwise I don’t think I will ever catch up.
For those who don’t want to wait for the stories here are the pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielroop/sets/72157594200433563/