Well I've definitly had New York on my mind this weekend! Not only was I in the city both Saturday and Sunday but I also finally made my mind up about whether or not I was staying for another 6 months, and have decided that yes I will! I am so excited about my decision and the prospect of spending another 6 months in this beautiful and amazing, everchanging city!
Saturday I went in by myself, to the International Centre for Photography, they were having an exhibition of a famous fashion photographer's work from the 40s through to the 2000s. It was amazing work, and although I was disappointed that the centre was only 2 floors, and there wasn't more, it was a lovely afternoon! I also wondered up to the Museum of Modern Art (or MoMA) but didn't go in as it was closing in an hour, and the entry is $20). I instead headed back to westchester, and spent the night (and the early hours of the morning) at the river with Sarah, Steph and Matt, giggling up a storm as usual.
The next morning, I took an early train into the city with Matt, and we met Frannie at grand central. We subwayed down to the World Trade Centre site because Matt wanted to get some official merchandise. There's a great big space in the middle of all these buildings, and even without knowing, you would have had a sense that something was missing from that space. They are slowly building the new, freedom tower, so we saw them working on that. They had a WTC tribute museum but we didn't have time to go in because we had to be back in midtown (WTC is lower manhattan) at central park for Matt's LCC meeting. So we subwayed up to Strawberry Fields, Central Park where we met up with Sarah and Steph and the LCC group. After lunch, photos and general lazying about we decided to head to 5th avenue (minus Frannie who had to work), as Sarah wanted to get a teddy bear from the famous toy store FAO Schwartz (where Tom Hanks plays the big keyboard in the movie Big). Since I had already been there, we split up and the girls explored FAO and Matt and I headed down 5th to Best Buy (pretty much like JBHIFI even has a similar logo lol) to get me a camera! We met back up for some naughty spending at clothing store H&M before heading back to westchester. We ate at Sarah's for the second night running (yummy and easy way to save, dinner at host homes!) and met up again with Frannie to see the latest installment of Harry Potter. I'm not a fan but it was pretty good. Home sweet home at about 130, with my head hitting the pillow at about 3am after staying up for a late night online chat!!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Red, White and Blue (not just american colours, but aussie too!)
During the day on saturday (4th july), me, sarah and stephanie decided to get a little pampered and got our hair cut and then went home to dye our hair. We lazed around most of the day until about 6 when Steph and I (sarah was working) headed over to Alissa's for a 4th of July weekend. I had really wanted to go into the city to see the fireworks, but the girls were keen on a quiter night, so I had no one to go with. I had lots of fun at the bbq, though! We played back yard cricket (which I've actually enever played before and was quite fun) and guitar hero (i'm not as good as when i left oz but still pretty ok!) and renamed it 'Australia Day 2'! We even wore our aussie hats for a bit and got out some aussie flags, haha. The next day Sarah, Steph, Frannie and I got the train into New York for a good old fashioned picnic in central park! We got some lovely fresh summer fruits and salads, and found a shade covered rock to eat on. Then we decided to explore the park - we rode the carousel, walked literary path, saw bethesda fountain, people riding canoes in the lake, kids playing with remote control sailboats in the pond, saw the alice in wonderland statue, climbed to belvedere castle, walked through shakespeares garden and past the swedish marionette cottage. It was all stuff I've done 3 times before, but was so much more fun with these girls, who hadn't seen any of it!! One thing we did stumble upon, which I had been searching for all 3 of the other times I had been here, was the Hans Christian Anderson statue! I was so excited when we turned a corner and it was there! After the park, we did a quick breeze through the museum of natural history, before heading back to westchester for dinner at one of our fav chain restaurants, the cheesecake factory.
A Lady Gaga weekend (i wanna take a ride on your disco stick/poker face)
So again, I have fallen a little bit behind in the blogs, but at the moment I am stranded at a Lake House in Massachusetts, so I have time to catch up on the last few weekends.
The weekend after Silverbay, Steph & Sarah threw a cocktail poker party on Saturday night. So Sarah, Steph, Frannie, Matt & I got all dressed up...and had no where to go! hehe. Basically a fun excuse to dress up, take some photos, drink some cocktails and play some poker; we definitly had a lot of fun. We had an abundance of food and alcohol (jimmy, vodka, midori, bacardi, beer, cocktail mixers...) and Sarah and I ended up getting quite drunk (her more so then me, although I did fall down a flight of stairs!) and we all headed to be about 2am. It was such a great night and I had so much fun.
The next morning however, was not the most fun! Trying to get four partially hungover/partially still drunk girls out of bed and ready to make 10am train...not the best idea! We eventually made it onto the 11am train, all dressed up, ready for a day in the city - watching the gay pride parade in greenwich village. Steph and I had made our own custom singlets, with 'Pride 09' on the front of both of them; then I had 'all you need is love' on the front too and Steph had 'I wanna take a ride on your disco stick' from the Lady Gaga song, on her back. The back of Steph's singlet definitly got a lot of comments and some photos! When we got to the village, we went into a nearby party store to grab flags (Frannie opted for a rainbow feather boa) and found a perfect spot to watch the parade. It was right at a corner section, so we got to see the parade come down one street, and go down another, getting a longer view, and we surprisingly didn't have many people on our side of the street, which meant everyone wasn't uncomfortably squashed together! I had slip slop slapped before coming to the parade, but I did forget to put some on my back and the girls forgot theirs all together so after standing four hours in the hot hot sun, we were all ridiculously fried. My black beret was like a beaker for heat, so I took that off and tried to hide under my flag as some sort of hat! I think it was about an hour, an hour and a half after we arrived that the parade actually started, because where we were was about 1/2 way down the parade route. The first group was people on bikes, which was then followed by either groups of organizations, companies or people and some floats as well. Alot of floats were playing Michael Jackson, and all floats, groups and parade watchers were full of fantastic energy during the entire parade. Screaming, yelling, cheering, dancing, singing, applausing and supporting! The parade hadn't ended at 4ish, when we decided to leave before fainting amongst the crowd, but it was definitly one of the hottest days this summer and it was too much to be in the sun that long. We had seen most of the parade, and had been their through lunch, so we headed off into the village to find a nice little restaurant to eat at. We had some Italian, before finding a random stoop to sit on for the remainder of the afternoon before eventually getting back into Westchester at 8ish.
The weekend after Silverbay, Steph & Sarah threw a cocktail poker party on Saturday night. So Sarah, Steph, Frannie, Matt & I got all dressed up...and had no where to go! hehe. Basically a fun excuse to dress up, take some photos, drink some cocktails and play some poker; we definitly had a lot of fun. We had an abundance of food and alcohol (jimmy, vodka, midori, bacardi, beer, cocktail mixers...) and Sarah and I ended up getting quite drunk (her more so then me, although I did fall down a flight of stairs!) and we all headed to be about 2am. It was such a great night and I had so much fun.
The next morning however, was not the most fun! Trying to get four partially hungover/partially still drunk girls out of bed and ready to make 10am train...not the best idea! We eventually made it onto the 11am train, all dressed up, ready for a day in the city - watching the gay pride parade in greenwich village. Steph and I had made our own custom singlets, with 'Pride 09' on the front of both of them; then I had 'all you need is love' on the front too and Steph had 'I wanna take a ride on your disco stick' from the Lady Gaga song, on her back. The back of Steph's singlet definitly got a lot of comments and some photos! When we got to the village, we went into a nearby party store to grab flags (Frannie opted for a rainbow feather boa) and found a perfect spot to watch the parade. It was right at a corner section, so we got to see the parade come down one street, and go down another, getting a longer view, and we surprisingly didn't have many people on our side of the street, which meant everyone wasn't uncomfortably squashed together! I had slip slop slapped before coming to the parade, but I did forget to put some on my back and the girls forgot theirs all together so after standing four hours in the hot hot sun, we were all ridiculously fried. My black beret was like a beaker for heat, so I took that off and tried to hide under my flag as some sort of hat! I think it was about an hour, an hour and a half after we arrived that the parade actually started, because where we were was about 1/2 way down the parade route. The first group was people on bikes, which was then followed by either groups of organizations, companies or people and some floats as well. Alot of floats were playing Michael Jackson, and all floats, groups and parade watchers were full of fantastic energy during the entire parade. Screaming, yelling, cheering, dancing, singing, applausing and supporting! The parade hadn't ended at 4ish, when we decided to leave before fainting amongst the crowd, but it was definitly one of the hottest days this summer and it was too much to be in the sun that long. We had seen most of the parade, and had been their through lunch, so we headed off into the village to find a nice little restaurant to eat at. We had some Italian, before finding a random stoop to sit on for the remainder of the afternoon before eventually getting back into Westchester at 8ish.
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