- Sunday, March 20, 2008
So day 3 was the last day for us to enjoy New York. We were out around 11.30AM to Chinatown for dim sum. Next destination is World Trade Centre. There was a monument erected about the area of WTC PATH station. While there, there was this guy sitting on the floor and playing a musical instrument (a violin or something) and he played the saddest song –like ones usually played at funerals of national heroes- I kept thinking, oy, did he have to keep playing that song, it made my eyes welled up. Later, we rested our legs at a nearby café then walked to Wall Street and since we still had about an hour left before dark, we decided to go to Empire State building which we could actually see from Wall Street. After asking around, we took the subway to 6th Ave. and walked to 8th Ave. We still couldn’t find the building after walking for 20 minutes. At an intersection, John was saying that the building should be somewhere nearby since we had seen it from afar earlier but said that we should probably get going when I looked at the street in front of me and to a building with a tall tower on top and asked “,does this look like the Empire State building?” It was in fact the Empire State building and we couldn’t stop laughing all the way. To our amusement, there was this store across the Empire State building which put a statue of Liberty the size of a human in front of the store and we quickly took the liberty to pose with the statue. Dinner was at Ruby Tuesday on 7th. Food here was good with reasonable price tags. When we were about finished with dinner, there were some commotions in front of the restaurant. We were later told by the waiter that that night gangsters would be roaming the streets of downtown and that it was an annual thing for them. But we decided that it was safer to leave sooner before midnight and still we managed to buy some bread and cookies at the Bread Factory along 7th Avenue.
- Monday, March 24, 2008
We were ready to leave the hotel by the hotel shuttle bus to the airport at 5AM when I looked out from the lobby and saw that no car was waiting for us. I quickly ran to the front desk and told the half awaken front-office manager that we were looking for the bus. He quickly paged the driver who apparently had just left a few seconds before we came out. Luckily he came back for us. We reached Toronto around 8.45AM, reached home around 10AM and me straight to the office. I could barely keep my eyes open for the rest of the day.
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