My longest ever day + arriving at the Big Apple

Tuesday the 30 of September was the longest day I have ever and likely will ever live through. To be honest I don't think we really need 30 hrs in the day, or whatever i had. I think we'd sleep for a very large portion. Maybe it would be much more useful if the time wasn't spent in a seated position; within the confines of an airplane seat. Actually it wasn't so bad, I ended up watching 5 movies or so in the end. Let me break it up first, the Sydney to LA part was about 13 hours i think, we actually caught up with last nights darkness before it caught us once more somewhere near the West Coast Shore; i'm really not sure how that all worked. That leg we managed through a bit of sleep, a lot of movies, a couple of drinks for me and a large portion of excitment also. This was more challenging because the plane was packed and our seats where the two middle seats in the middle aisle. Fortunately Frederick the German lad on my side and the Indian woman on Alyson's were not bad companions. The second leg from LA to NY was actually particularly enjoyable. The plane was empty, well far less full than the previous much longer leg. Hence thereforth we went and found ourself some prime seats with a viewing window from which we were able to admire the West Coast of the US of A. Aprrox. five hours later we were looking over New York city and the East Coast of America, the joys and marvels of modern transportation. In this time period Alyson was found sleeping just about the whole time. Can't blame her, but I myself had to use up my rights to TV, Movies, Games, a pretty empty 747 and Alcoholic beverages and non. Quick run through of the movies i watched were Hancock, Zohan, Get Smart, Looking for Alabrandi and What Happens in Vegas. All were pretty equally average. In fact most of them I fell asleep very close towards the end. Also enjoyed a few shows, chasers, doco on Michael Moore; trying to prove his hyporcicy and what not,wasn't particularly convincing or riveting, a brief look at a doco on the A380 airbus, and i tell you that i didn't even watch the Top Gear episode they had!! I had seen it before of course, but still i'd usually watch it again, crazy.
Alright i'm taking far too long, lets see if i can do the rest in 7 mins.

Our accomodation. It's growing on me. It's really quite good, clean, nice comfy beds, the free breakfast is awesome but let me get back to that, the only bad thing is that you share the single (but clean) bathroom with at least 12 people, at most about 25 or something. Pretty bad, but again, somehow hasn't affected us that badly yet. Well the breakfast let me tell you. They have heaps of bagels, and heaps of muffing. Also OJ, tea and coffee. First I like to use the most savoury bagel of the bunch, spread with Phille cheese and ricotta or something similar, next a bagel with butter and grape jam, and finally a croissant with peanut butter and Nutella. Forgot to say theres croissants too, theres croissants.
Also they have a great little tv area down stairs, including lots of lazy couches, a couple of tv viewing areas and rugs everywhere, quit cool indeed. As well as this you get a courtyard area beside the building, and at the top of the building. A reasonably nice view at night, have yet to view it in daylight.
I need to go and get more money to continue so this will be the final sentence of this Blog.

Well what do you know i can update anyhow. I will leave the old sentence there anyway in memory of a time when i didn't have this knowledge.
The subway is pretty grotty, I should just say, it's not really frightening or anything, just heavily vandalised and the stations resemble modern day ancient time dungeons. They're very efficient, have not had to wait long at a station at all, and reasonably cheap as far as i can tell, therefore making them worthy and effective. So when we took our subway ride from the airport up to Harlem all i was trying to do most of the time was figure out which station we were at, because there are at least 100,000, probably closer to a million. So when you first get there its hard to figure out just whats going on, even though the map is pretty good it just can't fit some of the stations on is what seemed to be the case. I think it's just the leg from the airport that was particularly difficult because it wasn't so bad today. Also New York is such a big city that the streets are named in numerical order according to latitude, and a mixture as far as I can tell in the Longtitude between letters, numbers and names. I think i got my latitude and longtitude right, and my spelling of both. Anyhow although this would seem the most straightforward way to layout the city's streets it still becomes quite difficult. Downtown it isn't so bad.
Back to the Subway. Well after we changed over at 42nd Street or Central station we had our no. 2 train heading up to our stop on 116th street. The further uptown we got the greater the percentage of African Americans to otherwise it became, until it was 99% with just Aly and I the only non Gangsta's left. It was in no way threatening but it is different. Getting off at the station though becomes a bit frightening. When you walk up the stairs out of the subway and it's dark and everyone around you is much more of a G then you, and the rumours and reputation you've heard about the place, it is playing in your mind that someone might just pop a cap in yoo ass. Feels quite likely.
Didn't happen though all the G's were friendly as far as i can tell, the only conversation that happened was someone from a particularly chilled looking group stating that the maroujana was is good. Just thought he'd let me know i think. Wasn't implying i purchase any, just stating haha.
Alyson also felt that we really should be packing some heat. But i don't think we could ever be Gangsta's, they have serious style that you just can't attain when your born with a white complexion. Another quick mention, i do think I saw a pimp on this night, very exciting.

Let me try and be a little quicker when talking about today.
Well as i mentioned earlier the bfast was very impressive, looking forward to more tommorow. After eating we wanted to get out and see everything, so we got ourselves ready, went outside and headed south. We walked through Central Park for most of the way, i think we came out at around 60th st. maybe a bit lower. The Park is amazing, it's so wonderful that in a city so full and amazing and undoubtely ridiculous in real estate expense, it's great that they have maintained the Park. It is a beautiful beautiful park, inside you could be anywhere, the air feels clean and theres squirrels every where, very cute squirrels might i mention, i still want to see the Fat squirrels from your photos bvic n jacko. Maybe they get fat in winter, like triple their size. more actually I just can't spell anything higher than triple. Also there are so many little nooks and cranny's to the park that I think would take a few days in itself to look at them all.
Coming out into the city, honestly one of the first cars I saw was a Maybach, honestly i was stunned. I know you guys said there were heaps, but i just didn't believe you. For everyone else, only two have every been sold in Aus, they're like merc S class but the best you could possibly make one, with ugly but subtle and unnoticing styling. That's the one different selling point that makes it appeal to the ultra rich but retarded above the Roll's Phantom. Its just for the ones who want to go unnoticed. Also the cheapest one is like 1 million, most expensive about 2 i think.
Back to blog.
If anyone's still reading they've done an excellent job. I've fallen asleep way back when.
Just putting another dollar bill in the machine. Ahh, that's better. Another 10 mins.
The buildings are soo impressive, their size is unbelievable, and they're endless. One of my favourite things is looking down the street and seeing for like another Km that the smallest building is about 15 storeys, it looks spectacular. I recommend Brisbane do the same. Then there are so many amazing pieces of architecture in there, the Mac store has a Glass little cube coming out of the ground and a glass staircase and glass cylindrical elevator that takes you below to where the store actually is. Quite stunning. I would mention more but that's the only one I know. Other than the Empire State Building which is just magnificent mainly due to its' size, which is endless. It has no roof. Keeps going, as far as i could crank my neck at least. Trump Tower is pretty nice a marble or Granite waterfall inside, and I had a little experience in there, I went to walk down the esculators, however when i stepped onto it i walked backwards into Alyson. Big surprise because i honestly hadn't realised it was one coming up. I just expected it to be on the LEFT hand side but the crazy Americans use the right for everything don't they. Bit of a chuckle.
At the NBA store today Alonzo Mourning made an appearance to sign his new book, unfortunately I didn't get to see him though, probably didn't put in enough effort there.
Another thing that happens here is young hopeful rappers stand on street corners trying to sell their albums and just get recognised and get the word out about them. I didn't know this happened so often, felt kinda special the first time, especially when he started freestyling for us, wasn't really our choice but he did it, and he wasn't really that good.
Other crazy thing was seeing a motorbike rider and a taxi having a driving fight, turning into eachother and cursing, bikey kept punching and kicking the taxi that i think cut him off dangerously. The bike was a Ducati 1098, very nice. In the end the taxi cut him off hard enough that he had to stop and get off and they yelled for a bit. Really gotta go now. we also had good nachos and pizza today.