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.