Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Central Park and stuff

This morning I got up and did some faffing and organising stuff. I was pretty hell bent on a run for some reason so I borrowed Andrews bike to ride to Central Park, gotta do the cliche stuff eh?

Riding a bike in NY was pretty exciting. I actually ended up walking my bike a hell of a lot of the time for fear of losing my life to a car door, or a taxi, or a taxi car door. It wasn't too bad though as I was mostly in bike lanes (I went to the Hudson waterfront) where I could huss along and the only things to crash into were people and they mostly just bounced off anyway.

When I got to the park I didn't really know where to run so I just decided to run around the whole thing. I didn't really know how long it was gonna take but I had a bit of water and a muesli bar which is approximately a bit of water and a muesli bar more than I normally take running. I took this photo looking out over the reservoir:


The whole thing took me about an hour and a half but that was with a significant amount of faffing around looking for photos and exploring. The park was pretty damn cool. Such an amazing and large place to be in the middle of Manhatten! I managed to find my bike again and went back home down the east side of the island. On the way home I got my highly reccomended (by multiple separate people in Iceland and in NY) Pastrami sandwich from this diner:


I went home and had a shower before setting out for a walk to the Book of Mormon theatre. It was about 40 min to walk there. For each performance they hold a lottery 2 hours before the show for highly discounted tickets so I was pretty keen to give it a whirl. It is so much more expensive than the west end! Book of Mormon tickets start at $155USD! Ridiculous, but they are pretty much sold out until 2013 so I guess whatever people are willing to pay. The lottery tickets are only $32 but unfortunately I missed out. I think I had about a 5% chance of getting one.

Fortunately I found this sign:


Which made everything better. Instead of the show I met up with one of Carlas friends that is living in NY and we had a couple of drinks and a yarn. Cheers John!

On the way home I ate a Big Mac.

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