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May. 21st, 2009 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gardeniabeeFrom 5/19:
Today was spent touristing in downtown Manhattan. Went up the Empire State Building (after waiting in line for a very long time) and saw the sights. It is pretty amazing to see the urban life in its entirety from above. I especially enjoyed the older buildings with shiny metals roofs- very ostentatious!
For some reason, the phrase "what horrible things man has wrought..." kept whispering through my mind. It is neat to see all of the buildings and construction, but I have the feeling that an undeveloped countryside would be more beautiful.
We ate at the "Heartland Brewery," enjoying fish and chips (yum!) and some dark chocolate cherry cheesecake, which home-brewed root beer and ginger ale.
After food was Times Square, which was smaller than I was expecting from seeing it on TV for so many years. I think Times Square would be a lot of fun if you had some major $$$ that you were looking to burn. As I am mostly NOT looking to burn $, it was less fun. Lots of lights, though, and I'd like to visit again when I have more of an idea of what to do there.
The subways have been neat and cool, for the most part. Maybe it will be worse when we get more into summer.
Going into Downtown today makes Uptown seem rather rural, by comparison. There are swarms of people milling all of the sidewalks in Downtown. There are always some people out in the roads in Uptown, but not nearly the same volume...
Today was spent touristing in downtown Manhattan. Went up the Empire State Building (after waiting in line for a very long time) and saw the sights. It is pretty amazing to see the urban life in its entirety from above. I especially enjoyed the older buildings with shiny metals roofs- very ostentatious!
For some reason, the phrase "what horrible things man has wrought..." kept whispering through my mind. It is neat to see all of the buildings and construction, but I have the feeling that an undeveloped countryside would be more beautiful.
We ate at the "Heartland Brewery," enjoying fish and chips (yum!) and some dark chocolate cherry cheesecake, which home-brewed root beer and ginger ale.
After food was Times Square, which was smaller than I was expecting from seeing it on TV for so many years. I think Times Square would be a lot of fun if you had some major $$$ that you were looking to burn. As I am mostly NOT looking to burn $, it was less fun. Lots of lights, though, and I'd like to visit again when I have more of an idea of what to do there.
The subways have been neat and cool, for the most part. Maybe it will be worse when we get more into summer.
Going into Downtown today makes Uptown seem rather rural, by comparison. There are swarms of people milling all of the sidewalks in Downtown. There are always some people out in the roads in Uptown, but not nearly the same volume...