This morning everyone in the house had a pretty late start. Trish and Andrew didn't leave the house until 10am! I thought NY was all go-go-go but I like these flexible hours. I jacked up a lunch with the guy I am going to stay with for 3 nights from tomorrow but I wanted to go to the 9/11 memorial first. Andrew was very kind and said I could use his computer and printer to get a ticket and print it. It all sounded very easy so they left for work. I booked the ticket and went to print it but unfortunately the page was mostly blank. I tried again and still no luck. I want to blame the Andrews apple computer but I guess it is more likely it was out of blue ink. Nothing is ever easy is it. Instead I had to book another ticket (lucky they were free) and choose to pick it up (discouraged apparently). That was OK but I wasn't counting on making a stop on the way so now I was pretty pushed for time. Luckily I didn't have to be there dead on when I had booked the ticket for so that was good. It was very good that I decided to book online and pick the ticket up too as there was a massive line for getting tickets at the door.
The memorial itself was pretty cool. Very simple which I thought was a bit out of character for the US. It must have been a nightmare to try and think of something to embody such a tragic event but I think they pulled it off. While I was there I tried to compare it in my head to Dachau and Terezin but kinda failed. I know it wasn't nearly as bad but I think the main reason I couldn't draw any comparisons was because it is just so damn unbelievable that it happened at all. Which doesn't mean that Hitler murdering all the Jews is any more believable. I feel I am digging myself a hole here...
Pictures, The North tower pool:
A new tower that is under construction:
Survivor tree:
After the memorial I high-tailed it to Union Square to meet EZ. When had lunch and he showed me some of the stuff he was working on. He works for a web development company and the office was exactly like I would imagine a relatively new web development company to be. Free coffee, people in T shirts and jeans, USB foam missile launchers, big room with bean bags and soft chairs in it. It was a very cool space and I couldn't help but think that MLL lives in the dark ages of office environments.
I then went to have another go at the Book of Mormon lottery. I didn't win this time either. On the way home I stopped in at a discount Broadway ticket office to see what they had on. I decided to buy a ticket to Fuerza Bruter ($55USD). I biked home, which reminds me: I have been borrowing Andrews bike a bit and biking around New York is awesome. I imagine it is much the same as biking around any big city but I have never really done it before (hell I used to be scared of biking around the bottom of the hill between the bottom of the downhill tracks on the port hills and bowanvale ave!) but it is so much fun. I am not sure what is more dangerous: Biking down the flying Nun or biking down Broadway avenue, both have about the same adrenaline rush! I dropped the bike off and walked to the show.
So the show: Holy mother of god it was crazy shit. If there is a chance you will ever go to it don't read on cos it would be amazing if you had no idea what was going happen. It was just the most mental show I have ever seen, including the Blue Man Group. It started out with a guy running on a treadmill with walls coming at him and then he got shot. Then he got up and they sent tables and chairs at him and then some people. Then there was some aerial dancers running around above our heads. Then there was a small room of dancers, the dancers then destroyed the walls and ceiling and they went mental. Then there was the suspended clear water bath thing with people in it doing all sorts of crazy shit. Then there was more dancing, there was a hose pointed at the audience at one point. All this with a DJ making pumping music the whole time. Bloody epic and an amazing experience.
In the evening I went to a cool we club in the basement of a building (mole people) for one of Andrews friends, Michael, who is leaving to live in Berlin. I bought 2 drinks of Crown Royal and dry ginger ale which cost me $12USD each plus tip. It tasted pretty good but not like gold.
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