This is my 3rd time surfing, 2nd on Macao Beach in Punta Cana, DR. As you can tell from my first video in Macao, I fared a little better this time around =)
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I Wanna Go Surfing
This is my 3rd time surfing, 2nd on Macao Beach in Punta Cana, DR. As you can tell from my first video in Macao, I fared a little better this time around =)
Fresca
- Sweet Potato Fries - with aji verde aioli.
- Yucca Frita - fried yucca with aji huacatay aioli.
- Hamachi Tiradito - peruvian style sashimi, jalapeño, soy, white truffle oil, andean corn.
- Ceviche Mojito - halibut, mint, onion, rum, rocoto, lime juice, sea salt, choclo, cancha morada.
- Empanadas - beef tenderloin picadillo, olives, egg, pickled onion, aji verde aioli.
- Espinacas y cangrejo - spinach and Dungeness crab salad, fried avocado, candied walnuts, feta cheese, red peppers, creamy tarragon dressing.
- Pez espada - grilled swordfish, sundried tomato aioli, mushrooms, onions, lettuce, tomato, jack cheese, toasted ciabatta.
- Ceviche Chino - ahi tuna tartare, guacamole, ponzu sauce, lettuce cups, aji verde, wonton chips
Pisco Punch
I left my heart in San Francisco..
so I'm going back to get it hahahaha! We're off to visit Leesha's mom in San Jose and then visiting her cousin in San Francisco in November!! I can't wait. Most importantly, I finally get to go away for my birthday. For my birthday wish, I will be spending the day at The Monteray Bay Aquarium!!! GYEAH!!! Another one off the list!
JAMROCK
Because I'm FINALLY going to Jamaica tomorrow, I thought I'd leave you with these videos that I swear almost made me piss my pants!!! Keep in mind, you need to know patios to understand this, and when you do, it's the funniest shit ever!
Another one off the list
YES YES YES!!!! I'm FINALLY GOING!!! Yesterday we booked to go to Jamaica! I have been wanting to go here since 2004!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!! Surprisingly Leesh agreed to go and this is what made it all happen!! I'm so proud of her slowly stepping out of her comfort level slowly! She also agreed on another trip with me next year but I won't mention that till then.. in the mean time, COUNTDOWN TO JAMAICA STARTS TODAY!
Couch Surfing
So I joined today to see if I can get and meet people from Japan so that I can finally get my ass over there! This would be the best way to get to see Japan in a well budget way! So far it's kind of weird cause you're basically putting yourself out there to people you don't know asking them to stay at your place, but at the same time these people are on this site for the same thing. I've gotten no replies yet but lets see where this takes me. If this turns out to be a success, OMG BRASIL HERE I COME!!
SAN FRANCISCO - 1 WEEK
It's official! One more week till San Francisco!! I can't wait!!! I'm going to buy all my summer gear there for this year. No point in buying it here when what I want is probably all there! WHOOT WHOOT!!
SAN FRANCISCO - 21 DAYS
Yup thats right! 21 more days and I can't wait to go to San Francisco! We'll be going from the 24th to the 28th and staying with Alysia's cousin, Marilen who came and visited us last summer. I can't wait for this trip since this is the first vacation with Leesh since Mexico last year. My previous two afterwards (Cuba and NYC) were on my own. I can't wait to see the sea lions on the pier! I know Leesh and Marilen kinda don't want to but they've already banned me from museums on this trip =P. I just can't wait!!!! I loved NYC but theres something about the smell of the ocean that I love and this will also be the first time I'll be in California!Things I want to visit in San Francisco
-Alcatraz..AT NIGHT!!!
-Golden Gate Bridge
-Sea Lions
-Japan Town
-Stinking Rose (Reggie's recommendation)
-Surfers (I just want to see people surfing!)
Thats it. I don't really want to have a list because I just want Marilen to do her thing and take us around she lives downtown anyway. They did promise me the Alcatraz at night so I can't WAIT for that!! I know Leesh is nervous about it MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
New York City Day 5 - The Last Day
Throughout this trip, I was trying to coordinate plans with my other cousin Eric to go meet up. Unfortunately, things were so jumbled and all over the place, I couldn't set a fix time to meet up with him and meet his family! So Monday morning, Jim and Adaiah went shopping and I stayed back because I couldn't walk anymore. So I was fine staying in the room and just chilling out before we had to leave for the airport.
Then I get a text from Eric asking me if I wanted to meet for lunch. He worked just up the street from me and I said SURE! Since this was the only time I was going to be able to see him during my stay there. So I met him at the corner of 40th and 5th avenue and there he was struttin in his business suit! I felt so under dressed and I was hoping that we were going somewhere for a casual lunch but low and behold, my cousin takes me to The Grill in Bryant Park! Now earlier on this trip Clecia and I saw this restaurant and said "OOOO WE SHOULD EAT THERE!!". We never got the chance to but thanks to my cousin my opportunity came up.
I had a good conversaton with Eric. Also finding out that he recently just had another baby girl, about 4 months old. I felt like a dumb ass not knowing this but then again, I haven't seen this guy in 16 years as well. I wish I got to spend more time with him and actually meet his family. Next time I will for sure!
So there you have it, my trip to NYC. I am planning to go back again and bring Alysia since she's never been there but first things first....
SAN FRANCISCO IN 23 DAYS!! WHOOT WHOOT!!!!
Then I get a text from Eric asking me if I wanted to meet for lunch. He worked just up the street from me and I said SURE! Since this was the only time I was going to be able to see him during my stay there. So I met him at the corner of 40th and 5th avenue and there he was struttin in his business suit! I felt so under dressed and I was hoping that we were going somewhere for a casual lunch but low and behold, my cousin takes me to The Grill in Bryant Park! Now earlier on this trip Clecia and I saw this restaurant and said "OOOO WE SHOULD EAT THERE!!". We never got the chance to but thanks to my cousin my opportunity came up.
I had a good conversaton with Eric. Also finding out that he recently just had another baby girl, about 4 months old. I felt like a dumb ass not knowing this but then again, I haven't seen this guy in 16 years as well. I wish I got to spend more time with him and actually meet his family. Next time I will for sure!
So there you have it, my trip to NYC. I am planning to go back again and bring Alysia since she's never been there but first things first....
SAN FRANCISCO IN 23 DAYS!! WHOOT WHOOT!!!!
New York City Day 4 - GG Night!
Darryl and Clecia left Sunday morning. I thought I heard them but knowing how tired all of us were the day before, they didn't wake anyone up to say bye. I remember just waking up going "Did they just leave?". So Jim, Adaiah and I just looked at each other and tried to figure out what we wanted to do. We had no set plans besides the fact that we knew we had to get out of the apartment cause Joel (Jim's co-worker) was coming back. Jim and I went out to get some breakfast while Adaiah cleaned up a bit.
For the life of me, I can't remember the place where we got breakfast. We went there everyday and they had the best breakfast ever! The freshly squeezed OJ didn't help either. I swear that place spoiled me. Now a few Puerto Ricans work behind the counter and they were nice to us the everytime we went there. So being that it was our last time that we were going to order from there, I said to the guy "Gracias Amigo!" when he handed me my order. LOL!! I guess he really took offense to this cause the look he gave me was the look of DEATH! I felt so bad that I said it but like I said to Jim, it was just habit since everytime I hear someone speak Spanish, I think I'm in an All Inclusive joint somewhere in the Caribbean LOL! So to that guy behind the counter, I'M SORRY! I didn't mean no disrespect at all!!
By the time we finished breakfast, we realized that alot of places were not open since it was Easter. So what do we do on Easter Sunday? Go to the Museum Of Sex! LOL!! This was on my list of things to do! We went in and pretty much found some very interesting stuff. The first floor was very artistic, basically taking sex toys and making them into art. The second floor however, wasn't. Porn was playing BUT they had some very interesting read while it was playing. It just gave you random facts about the movies and you actually weren't looking at the porn, you were reading the information! I obviously didn't take pics of the Porno but you can see some of the pics I took here.
The funniest moment in there was when I saw this Japanese girl walked up the stairs and she realized what was showing and she was so offended of what was going on that she was in utter shock and disbelief. My question to her was "WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU THINK YOU WERE GOING TO?!?!
Then came the highlight of the trip!! PINKBERRY! Poor Clecia wanted to try this so bad but she basically ran out of time! Let me tell you, I didn't get what the big deal was until I tried it. GOOD LAWD!! This was SOOOOO GOOD! Marilen told me to try the Green Tea yogurt but when I went there they ran out but for some miraculous reason, as soon as I sat down, Green Tea seemed to be in everyone's hand! FRAUD! Seriously though, THIS WAS SOOO GOOD!! I couldn't believe how good it was. It was just so refreshing. Like REALLY refreshing! Enough about that, the picture says it all..MMMMMMMMM!!!
So we get back to the apartment, pack up and walk to our new destination, The W Hotel - The Court. I've always wanted to stay at the W and I was really glad that I was FINALLY going to get to stay in one! I love the whole atmosphere of it. It's basically like a club. I didn't take that many pics since I was so tired of taking pictures by this point but the hotel was really nice. There was a white fur blanket there which I called my "Chinchilla" and I thought I would take a pic of me lookin' like a baller but as you can see, the pic just turned out gay LOL!
That night, Joanne and her boyfriend Gensen came down to meet us. I hung out with them at the bar and had some good conversations. I don't have pictures of that night since Joanne took them all but I will post them up as soon as I get them. This was the first time I got to meet Gensen and he's such a good guy! I'm glad that my cousin is with him. He's so chill relaxed and just easy going. It wasn't as crazy as Friday night, but it was good to hang out with Joanne again and Jim and Adaiah got to meet them as well. We basically just sat around and had some drinks and then Joanne got hungry so we walked up the street and found the only thing that was open which was some restaurant. As we walked in, we realized that there was a HUGE cat running free in there and Joanne had her reservations about eating there but she was STARVING that she agreed to it anyway. I didn't eat there, I was smart enough LOL! Right after that, they kindly walked me back to my hotel and I said my goodbyes! It was really cool for Jo to come down again considering she lives so far from the city. She's basically an hour away by train and I was and still am very appreciative that she took time out to come back down. We tried to call Derek out again but he unfortunately couldn't make it. Still, it was good times for everyone LOL!
For the life of me, I can't remember the place where we got breakfast. We went there everyday and they had the best breakfast ever! The freshly squeezed OJ didn't help either. I swear that place spoiled me. Now a few Puerto Ricans work behind the counter and they were nice to us the everytime we went there. So being that it was our last time that we were going to order from there, I said to the guy "Gracias Amigo!" when he handed me my order. LOL!! I guess he really took offense to this cause the look he gave me was the look of DEATH! I felt so bad that I said it but like I said to Jim, it was just habit since everytime I hear someone speak Spanish, I think I'm in an All Inclusive joint somewhere in the Caribbean LOL! So to that guy behind the counter, I'M SORRY! I didn't mean no disrespect at all!!
By the time we finished breakfast, we realized that alot of places were not open since it was Easter. So what do we do on Easter Sunday? Go to the Museum Of Sex! LOL!! This was on my list of things to do! We went in and pretty much found some very interesting stuff. The first floor was very artistic, basically taking sex toys and making them into art. The second floor however, wasn't. Porn was playing BUT they had some very interesting read while it was playing. It just gave you random facts about the movies and you actually weren't looking at the porn, you were reading the information! I obviously didn't take pics of the Porno but you can see some of the pics I took here.The funniest moment in there was when I saw this Japanese girl walked up the stairs and she realized what was showing and she was so offended of what was going on that she was in utter shock and disbelief. My question to her was "WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU THINK YOU WERE GOING TO?!?!
Then came the highlight of the trip!! PINKBERRY! Poor Clecia wanted to try this so bad but she basically ran out of time! Let me tell you, I didn't get what the big deal was until I tried it. GOOD LAWD!! This was SOOOOO GOOD! Marilen told me to try the Green Tea yogurt but when I went there they ran out but for some miraculous reason, as soon as I sat down, Green Tea seemed to be in everyone's hand! FRAUD! Seriously though, THIS WAS SOOO GOOD!! I couldn't believe how good it was. It was just so refreshing. Like REALLY refreshing! Enough about that, the picture says it all..MMMMMMMMM!!!
So we get back to the apartment, pack up and walk to our new destination, The W Hotel - The Court. I've always wanted to stay at the W and I was really glad that I was FINALLY going to get to stay in one! I love the whole atmosphere of it. It's basically like a club. I didn't take that many pics since I was so tired of taking pictures by this point but the hotel was really nice. There was a white fur blanket there which I called my "Chinchilla" and I thought I would take a pic of me lookin' like a baller but as you can see, the pic just turned out gay LOL!That night, Joanne and her boyfriend Gensen came down to meet us. I hung out with them at the bar and had some good conversations. I don't have pictures of that night since Joanne took them all but I will post them up as soon as I get them. This was the first time I got to meet Gensen and he's such a good guy! I'm glad that my cousin is with him. He's so chill relaxed and just easy going. It wasn't as crazy as Friday night, but it was good to hang out with Joanne again and Jim and Adaiah got to meet them as well. We basically just sat around and had some drinks and then Joanne got hungry so we walked up the street and found the only thing that was open which was some restaurant. As we walked in, we realized that there was a HUGE cat running free in there and Joanne had her reservations about eating there but she was STARVING that she agreed to it anyway. I didn't eat there, I was smart enough LOL! Right after that, they kindly walked me back to my hotel and I said my goodbyes! It was really cool for Jo to come down again considering she lives so far from the city. She's basically an hour away by train and I was and still am very appreciative that she took time out to come back down. We tried to call Derek out again but he unfortunately couldn't make it. Still, it was good times for everyone LOL!
New York City Day 3 - The Longest Day EVER!
When I woke up at Tom's place, I realized that I left my cellphone on the whole night and to my surprise, it died. Stupid me didn't even think of packing the cell phone charger in my backpack, but oh well. I figured it was just a minor set back. So I gave Jim a call from Tom's house and asked them where they were and what were they up to. They were on their way to the Statue Of Liberty and he asked me to come down. So I asked Tom how to get to the Statue Of Liberty. He said the following.
"Take the PATH to Christopher St. When you exit the station, make a left and after 1 BLOCK you will see the entrance to the subway. Then from there, you take the 1 train down to South Ferry Station."
Easy enough right? Yup, IF YOU'RE FROM THERE! So knowing I had no access to a cellphone, my lovely cousin sent me on my merry way to find my friends.
So the first task of taking the PATH to Christopher Street. That was an easy one. It was funny though because when I went down to the platform, a train had arrived and I was looking at my map to see if that was the right train and this lady who makes sure everyone gets in the train looks at me and says
"YOU WAITIN' FO SUMTHIN?!?!"
Right when I was about to ask her if this is the right train to Christopher St. She said..
"TOO LATE!"
and closed the train and it took off with out me. LOL! I figured it would only be a 5 min wait for the next one but it fucking ended up being 20 MIN! Finally the train came and I was on my way to my little adventure. The train stops in Christopher St and I exit the train and Tom was right, there is only 1 exit to this place so I followed everyone and as soon as I exited the station, I made a left.
To my surprise, the area looked very different from what I've seen so far in NYC. Thats when I realized I was in Greenwich Village. As I adored the scenery, I realized that I was walking for more than 1 BLOCK (as Tom stated) and still no subway entrance. So I figured that I would just start walking south since thats the way I had to go anyway. But which way was south?
Now I'm really fucking lost, no cellphone and I knew that those guys were waiting for me. I didn't want them to wait too long since I knew they wanted to go to the Statue Of Liberty and if you don't line up early enough, you'll never get in. As you can see from the picture, this was the line up when they arrived there.
So as I was walking in Greenwich, I decided to make a left on a street, thinking it would get me closer to where I had to go. As soon as I made a left, all I said was "OH FUCK, NOW WHAT". Next thing I knew I was surrounded with a SLEW of rainbow flags. YES, RAINBOW FLAGS!! Now I'm not homophobic or anything, but I haven't even been to the gay area in Toronto, let alone NYC! So just being in the area made me REAL uncomfortable. Now I'm not dumb, I know what everyone thinks when they first meet me so the last thing I wanted to do was get picked up LOL! I saw this asian family with a stroller and I decided to follow them, close enough so it looked like I was with them, but they thought I was trying to rob them. So the first cab I saw, I jumped in and said "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
So I got in the cab and I asked the driver, "Was that Greenwich Village?". He said "NO, thats on the other side, you were in West Village, lots of gays there" LOL! Now I wouldn't have gotten all freaked out if my fucking cousin just told me thats where I would end up. Then again, this is the same guy that let me roam NYC without a cell phone so fuck, whatever!
So off I went to South Ferry Terminal. Keep in mind at this point I had no sense of time since I don't wear a watch cause usually I check my cellphone for the time. I get to South Ferry Terminal and I realized something. Ground Zero and the Statue Of Liberty are basically in the same area! Now, how was I going to find 4 people in a crowd of thousands?!?! I asked the information guy for the pay phone and he directed me to it. On my way up the escalators, there were 10 NYPD cops on the right side and another 10 on the left. None of them paid any attention to me until I got to the pay phone. Now here I was on the phone, with a backpack, black jacket with the collar up, black shades and as I was talking on the phone, I was suspiciously looking from left to right, trying to find those guys. Well wouldn't you know, this caught the attention of the 10 cops on my side and they all started to stare me down and I got paranoid and didn't even ask any questions when Jimmy said "Meet me on the street". I just wanted to hang up the phone and leave. As I was leaving, I was shitting bricks cause they were all just staring me down and I wanted to run, but you know if I did that it would be totally over lol!
After another phone call from another pay phone, I finally saw Jimmy and Darryl and ran to them and screamed "I don't ever want to do that again!!" and gave them the gayest fuckin hug ever! LOL!!
So after this, we met up with the girls at Century 21 and went on our merry way to visit Ground Zero. I didn't want to take any pictures of this place when I got there. I just find it really grim knowing that all these people died in one spot. It was just sad and I didn't want to take anymore time in there so off we went to CHINATOWN!
We get off and then here we were, Canal St. I remember Canal St. from back in the day cause thats where we would always drive coming up from Jersey. It was that one street that really stuck out to me. The main purpose of us going down here was so that Cless could get her good bootleg purses. We found a store and Cless and Darryl walked in and 15 min later Cless came out and said "Fucking Darryl!" LOL! So it turns out, D had tried to negotiate for a bag, and when the opportunity came for him and Cless to see the real good ones at the back, the lady turned to him and said "You not want to pay full price, you not come back here!" LOL!!! SHUT DOWN! There goes that!
So off we went for lunch. We were starving at this point and using Jimmy's trusty Blackberry with GPS, we found Nyonya! A restaurant my cousin in law Marilen told us to go to. You can see the food we ate here. The food was great! I really enjoyed it. Especially the Sting Ray. Yes we ate Sting Ray. It tasted just like regular fish!
After that, off we went to find dessert. So we walked and went to another one of Marilen's recomendations, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory! I had the Green Tea and Lychee. It was quite cold to eat it, but whatever we were there and we just walked around and ate it still.
It was Clecia and Darryl's last day so we tried to squeeze in as much things as we could. So after Chinatown, we went "On the 6" train to go to the Upper East Side to have some frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity 3. By this point my feet were aching so badly. Keep in mind I walked roughly about 85 blocks the day before and I wasn't wearing comfortable shoes so I was struggling by the time we got to the Upper East Side. We walked to Serendipity only to find out that it was a 90 min wait to get seated. All I really wanted was the frozen hot chocolate but I guess we had to sit to get it. Off we went to Bloomingdales to use the washroom and Jim and Adaiah went back to the apartment since Adaiah wasn't feeling well and Darryl, Cless and I went to shop some more.
We decided that this is a good time for them to see Grand Central Station. So we took the train there and stopped for a bit to take some pictures. A funny comment that Clecia said was, "Wasn't this place in a romatic movie or something?!?!" I quickly said uhhhh before I tell you, lets get out of here first. Then when we were away from the place I said "Ummm remember Independance Day?!?!" LOL! After this we started to make our way to The Rockefeller Center.
If you have been reading my blog, this was one of the places that reminds me of NYC. I just love it. Since it wasn't Christmas time, I thought I would see it anyway since I love the place. When we got there, it was even better than what I remembered. I seriously love this place, the whole skating, the building and just the energy in the area makes it special.
I wanted to see NYC from "The Top Of The Rock" so we went in the building and made our way up the elevator. The view was just spectacular as you can see in the picture. Seriously, for the cheezy tourist factor of it all, this was worth the $14! So after this, we thought we would try to hit up Daffy's which is basically Winners but better. I was told that we had to go here by Stfne so we did. We took the train to 34th street and as we got to the street, we realized it was just across the street. Cless and I freaked out and ran towards it leaving Darryl behind LOL! I found a nice casual blazer for $30 with an additional 30% off but I left it. I didn't need it. I'm kicking myself for it now but at the time I was just tired and I wanted to go home and eat. We had reservations at Ayza Chocolate and Wine bar at 7 and at this point, we missed it. After shopping we finally made it back to the apartment.
Noone wanted to go out since everyone was just exauhsted from the day so we decided to order in. Now this may sound weird, but we ordered wings from a Korean Place. It was called BonChon! Trust me when I say this, THESE WERE THE BEST WINGS I HAVE EVER EATEN!! Even Jimmy said it and Mr. Frat boy himself has eaten some wings in his time, so these were DEFINATELY a MUST when you go to NYC!!
So there you have it. The LONGEST DAY of my life! My feet sure paid the price, cause the next day, I couldn't even walk!
"Take the PATH to Christopher St. When you exit the station, make a left and after 1 BLOCK you will see the entrance to the subway. Then from there, you take the 1 train down to South Ferry Station."
Easy enough right? Yup, IF YOU'RE FROM THERE! So knowing I had no access to a cellphone, my lovely cousin sent me on my merry way to find my friends.
So the first task of taking the PATH to Christopher Street. That was an easy one. It was funny though because when I went down to the platform, a train had arrived and I was looking at my map to see if that was the right train and this lady who makes sure everyone gets in the train looks at me and says
"YOU WAITIN' FO SUMTHIN?!?!"
Right when I was about to ask her if this is the right train to Christopher St. She said..
"TOO LATE!"
and closed the train and it took off with out me. LOL! I figured it would only be a 5 min wait for the next one but it fucking ended up being 20 MIN! Finally the train came and I was on my way to my little adventure. The train stops in Christopher St and I exit the train and Tom was right, there is only 1 exit to this place so I followed everyone and as soon as I exited the station, I made a left.
To my surprise, the area looked very different from what I've seen so far in NYC. Thats when I realized I was in Greenwich Village. As I adored the scenery, I realized that I was walking for more than 1 BLOCK (as Tom stated) and still no subway entrance. So I figured that I would just start walking south since thats the way I had to go anyway. But which way was south?
Now I'm really fucking lost, no cellphone and I knew that those guys were waiting for me. I didn't want them to wait too long since I knew they wanted to go to the Statue Of Liberty and if you don't line up early enough, you'll never get in. As you can see from the picture, this was the line up when they arrived there.So as I was walking in Greenwich, I decided to make a left on a street, thinking it would get me closer to where I had to go. As soon as I made a left, all I said was "OH FUCK, NOW WHAT". Next thing I knew I was surrounded with a SLEW of rainbow flags. YES, RAINBOW FLAGS!! Now I'm not homophobic or anything, but I haven't even been to the gay area in Toronto, let alone NYC! So just being in the area made me REAL uncomfortable. Now I'm not dumb, I know what everyone thinks when they first meet me so the last thing I wanted to do was get picked up LOL! I saw this asian family with a stroller and I decided to follow them, close enough so it looked like I was with them, but they thought I was trying to rob them. So the first cab I saw, I jumped in and said "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"So I got in the cab and I asked the driver, "Was that Greenwich Village?". He said "NO, thats on the other side, you were in West Village, lots of gays there" LOL! Now I wouldn't have gotten all freaked out if my fucking cousin just told me thats where I would end up. Then again, this is the same guy that let me roam NYC without a cell phone so fuck, whatever!
So off I went to South Ferry Terminal. Keep in mind at this point I had no sense of time since I don't wear a watch cause usually I check my cellphone for the time. I get to South Ferry Terminal and I realized something. Ground Zero and the Statue Of Liberty are basically in the same area! Now, how was I going to find 4 people in a crowd of thousands?!?! I asked the information guy for the pay phone and he directed me to it. On my way up the escalators, there were 10 NYPD cops on the right side and another 10 on the left. None of them paid any attention to me until I got to the pay phone. Now here I was on the phone, with a backpack, black jacket with the collar up, black shades and as I was talking on the phone, I was suspiciously looking from left to right, trying to find those guys. Well wouldn't you know, this caught the attention of the 10 cops on my side and they all started to stare me down and I got paranoid and didn't even ask any questions when Jimmy said "Meet me on the street". I just wanted to hang up the phone and leave. As I was leaving, I was shitting bricks cause they were all just staring me down and I wanted to run, but you know if I did that it would be totally over lol!
After another phone call from another pay phone, I finally saw Jimmy and Darryl and ran to them and screamed "I don't ever want to do that again!!" and gave them the gayest fuckin hug ever! LOL!!
So after this, we met up with the girls at Century 21 and went on our merry way to visit Ground Zero. I didn't want to take any pictures of this place when I got there. I just find it really grim knowing that all these people died in one spot. It was just sad and I didn't want to take anymore time in there so off we went to CHINATOWN!
We get off and then here we were, Canal St. I remember Canal St. from back in the day cause thats where we would always drive coming up from Jersey. It was that one street that really stuck out to me. The main purpose of us going down here was so that Cless could get her good bootleg purses. We found a store and Cless and Darryl walked in and 15 min later Cless came out and said "Fucking Darryl!" LOL! So it turns out, D had tried to negotiate for a bag, and when the opportunity came for him and Cless to see the real good ones at the back, the lady turned to him and said "You not want to pay full price, you not come back here!" LOL!!! SHUT DOWN! There goes that!
So off we went for lunch. We were starving at this point and using Jimmy's trusty Blackberry with GPS, we found Nyonya! A restaurant my cousin in law Marilen told us to go to. You can see the food we ate here. The food was great! I really enjoyed it. Especially the Sting Ray. Yes we ate Sting Ray. It tasted just like regular fish!
After that, off we went to find dessert. So we walked and went to another one of Marilen's recomendations, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory! I had the Green Tea and Lychee. It was quite cold to eat it, but whatever we were there and we just walked around and ate it still.It was Clecia and Darryl's last day so we tried to squeeze in as much things as we could. So after Chinatown, we went "On the 6" train to go to the Upper East Side to have some frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity 3. By this point my feet were aching so badly. Keep in mind I walked roughly about 85 blocks the day before and I wasn't wearing comfortable shoes so I was struggling by the time we got to the Upper East Side. We walked to Serendipity only to find out that it was a 90 min wait to get seated. All I really wanted was the frozen hot chocolate but I guess we had to sit to get it. Off we went to Bloomingdales to use the washroom and Jim and Adaiah went back to the apartment since Adaiah wasn't feeling well and Darryl, Cless and I went to shop some more.
We decided that this is a good time for them to see Grand Central Station. So we took the train there and stopped for a bit to take some pictures. A funny comment that Clecia said was, "Wasn't this place in a romatic movie or something?!?!" I quickly said uhhhh before I tell you, lets get out of here first. Then when we were away from the place I said "Ummm remember Independance Day?!?!" LOL! After this we started to make our way to The Rockefeller Center.
If you have been reading my blog, this was one of the places that reminds me of NYC. I just love it. Since it wasn't Christmas time, I thought I would see it anyway since I love the place. When we got there, it was even better than what I remembered. I seriously love this place, the whole skating, the building and just the energy in the area makes it special.
I wanted to see NYC from "The Top Of The Rock" so we went in the building and made our way up the elevator. The view was just spectacular as you can see in the picture. Seriously, for the cheezy tourist factor of it all, this was worth the $14! So after this, we thought we would try to hit up Daffy's which is basically Winners but better. I was told that we had to go here by Stfne so we did. We took the train to 34th street and as we got to the street, we realized it was just across the street. Cless and I freaked out and ran towards it leaving Darryl behind LOL! I found a nice casual blazer for $30 with an additional 30% off but I left it. I didn't need it. I'm kicking myself for it now but at the time I was just tired and I wanted to go home and eat. We had reservations at Ayza Chocolate and Wine bar at 7 and at this point, we missed it. After shopping we finally made it back to the apartment.Noone wanted to go out since everyone was just exauhsted from the day so we decided to order in. Now this may sound weird, but we ordered wings from a Korean Place. It was called BonChon! Trust me when I say this, THESE WERE THE BEST WINGS I HAVE EVER EATEN!! Even Jimmy said it and Mr. Frat boy himself has eaten some wings in his time, so these were DEFINATELY a MUST when you go to NYC!!
So there you have it. The LONGEST DAY of my life! My feet sure paid the price, cause the next day, I couldn't even walk!
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