Friday Feeling
Today we went to the Central Park a for breakfast, then took in some sights around there. Didn’t see the friends building though. Checked out the Apple flagship store on 5th Avenue (on the corner of 53rd street if I remember right). Even if you don’t like computers, it’s worth a look just for the experience. It’s a big glass cube at the top, then you walk down some spiral stairs and then you can play with all the toys, it’s huge. If nothing else; it’s a chance to check emails, etc, as there is free internet on most of the machines. Free WiFi too.
From there we went to Madison Square Garden, but unfortunately the tickets for the Knicks were sold out for that evening, which was a bit disappointing because the game was against Boston Celtics, and since we were in Boston only a few days ago, it would have been good to see. This somewhat altered our evening plans.
After yet more wandering, it was getting towards 6pm, so we went to Wall Street to find a bar which had been recommended to my friend Pete last time he was there. We didn’t actually find that pub, but we found a good substitute just of Wall St called the White Horse Tavern, which had 2 hours of happy hour left and just $3 per pint and offers on food. Needless to say we made the most of that.
Decided to head to Greenwich next to check out the bars we had seen yesterday. We went to get on the subway, but there were two buskers – one on sax and one on bass guitar and went by the name of ‘Just the two of us’ They were really good, so we purposefully missed the first train to listen a bit longer. The rate at which people were chucking dollars at them was impressive. The bars in Greenwich were good – good atmosphere and reasonable prices on drinks.
After a few ales, headed back to the hotel, stopping for a great chicken kebab from a stand near the subway station in Greenwich. Only $3! Bargain. Unfortunately I go home tomorrow, but I still have a few things up my sleeve to do before I go to the airport. It was time to part ways with my friends, as they head off to San Francisco in the morning.
