1st up! New York City!
We woke up early and went to rent a 8 seater, so we could drive up towards NYC. It was like a 6 hour drive, so we took turns to drive... HAHA. At New Jersey, we finally could eat our most wanted White Castle burger! Remember "Harold and Kumar - Search for White Castle" the movie? YES! WHITE CASTLE!!
The burgers are quite small, almost the size of ur palm only. You could devour the whole thing in 3 mouthfuls... they are very very very nice! Each burger is like USD1.20 I think. Very nice burgers!
I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many photos, so I can only share some with you guys, unless 1)you all come up to my house or 2)my desktop is portable, then only I got time to show you all. HAHA.
So here's a couple of pics taken in NYC. We bought a 3 day pass for USD96 which entitled us to many free visitings!
First of all, the view from top of the Empire State building. For those who don't know what that is, it's the building which King Kong climbed and fell down from.
Next up, we also went for a tour at NBC, the broadcasting station!
You cannot don't go watch Broadway theatre shows since you're already at that place!!! The Mariott Hotel sells tickets at discounted prices, there are alot of shows! For example, Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, Lion King, Mamma Mia etc etc etc! There are also matinees, and long queues. You have to be there early to get better seats.
We watched Chicago! USD60.
Both Roy and Bee said they were very impressed with the music, dances and cheorographing... but I was quite disappointed! didn't quite enjoy it probably because we had a top + angled view which wasn't very good, but the main reason is that the casts didn't change their costumes AT ALL!!!! Should have watched Phantom of the Opera. GRRRR.
We also went to Central Park Zoo, where the movie "Madagascar" was based upon. Although it wasn't very big, it was a very fun place to be. Serious! It doesn't feel like a zoo at all, the animals like polar bear and penguins were especially cute! Most impressive was the open space tropical rainforest, where snakes can twine round your legs, birds can just fly past your head, water can drip on you (joking about the snakes).
Here's the seal feeding session. They are very acrobatic and cute!
Here's a shot of New York Times Square, the most happening place to be. It never sleeps! The street lights and signboards and buildings are all brightly and attractively-lit, even the Macdonalds has neon lighting ahaha! What you can see below is the Madame Tussad's Wax Museum...
(you can see the Mac in the background, and the famous NYC yellow cabs!)
We met Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie!!
And I had to save everyone from the Hulk, who was enraged by all the camera flashes at his half naked body.
I told Mr Einstein I'm pursueing a mechanical engineering degree, he replied alot of crap which didn't make sense to me. And I gave him the namecard of a hairdresser in Tampines.
We had a total of 4 days in NYC, on one of the afternoons we went to catch a baseball match between the New York Yankees and Tampabay. How can you not watch the world champions play? Don't worry if you don't know baseball rules, you'll soon learn it after watching it! The stadium was huge and the atmosphere was not bad too. When the home team had a homerun, all the crowd will cheer, it's a MUST thing to do at NYC!
When it was break time, theyd play the song "YMCA" and the people with brooms will come out to smoothen the sand. They dance along to the song! So entertaining!
The 3 day pass also entitled us to take the Circle Line Cruise, which we board a ferry and take a 2 hour tour of NYC. We saw the Empire State building, 3 very magnificent bridges Manhatten, Brooklyn and W-something (forgot the name, argh!)
Still on the ferry, another thing to see when you're at NYC - the statue of liberty, of course.
It was an awesome sight. Ms Liberty stood there holding the torch, grand and majestic. You could actually also take another Circle Line Cruise and go up Ellis Island, and take photos up close with her.
Another afternoon, we had a tour of Madison Square, home to the New York Knicks (basketball) and New York Rangers (ice-hockey). We were fortunate there was a WNBA match playing later that evening, so we bought USD10 tickets to watch it!
The New York Liberty was unluckily to lose that game by 2 points, but the whole game was very entertaining, and the atmosphere was awesome too. Whenever the visitors are attacking, there'd actually be what you always see on TV - crowd chanting "Defence! Defence!". And not forgetting the half time interval where cheerleaders will entertain the crowd! In fact, I like watching the bball match better than the Yankees.
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NYC is the place to visit if you ever go to USA. It's just so happening, so many things to do over there. There is also the Ripley's Believe it or not museum, Rockafeller Centre, lots of shopping at Times Square, Chrysler Building, Ground zero, etc etc, and the best thing about NYC is that every place is very accessible by the subway train, and it runs 24 hours! We were all quite sad to leave the beautiful place NYC after 4 days.
Off to our next destination.... by Greyhound bus. To Buffalo City! Still located in New York state, it's where one of the world's 7 wonders are located....
Behold NIAGARA FALLS... next entry! =)
