Wow, I have been nothing but tired these last few days. I arrived back here in california late at night on the 23rd. Woke up the next morning, and had a bunch of stuff to do. Anyway, New York was fantastic. I think some of the highlights were The Statue of Liberty, Rockafeller Center, Little Italy, The Village, All the many H&M’s, Lambardi’s Pizza, Uncle Sams, The Apple Store, Nintendo World, and I am sure more that I am just forgetting. So just make sure if you decide to go any time soon, that you visit those places. Oh, that and stay at the Mariott Marqiues in Times Square.

So now for a little segment I like to call..
“Things you don’t see anywhere else but NYC!”

• People asking you if you would like to buy a watch of handbag wherever you go (although it’s not as bad as it was a couple years ago).
• Asains in Chinatown saying to you “handbag, Luis Vutton, Coach, Coach, Coach..”, “fo you today, I make special price”
• Rental RV’s speeding around Manhattan with banners and on loudspeaker blasting hebrew music. All complete with a menorah on top
• People constantly trying to hand you flyers
• People constantly asking you if you like stand up comedy
• Old men throwing pennies at you
• One of the funniest encounters was the last day I was in New York. I bassed by a very old man on the sidewalk, he didn’t look poor, and I am still not sure if he was. But I passed by and it seemed as if he was juggling pennies in his hand, I mean, just for the enjoyment of it. So I passed by not making anything of it, until I heard some change drop, so, like the person I am I turned around, walked back to him and said “Did you drop something?”, He didn’t answer, but sounded like he mumbled something and then put his hand out to me. I said “ohhh, you need.. here, I then took some change out of my pocket and placed it in his hand. He then looked at me and said “ahh here take it, take it all, I don’t want it, It’s bad luck”. I questioned him and said “what?”, I kid you not, he then started throwing the pennys at me, a few at a time, just letting them scatter all over the ground. I don’t know what that guy was thinking but I just walked away. Maybe someone else knows about this and what he was doing. But my mom thinks the guy was just putting me on or something of the sort.

So anyway, Don’t let these little things bother you or take your desire away from going to the city. You are enjoying yourself so much when you are there, these things don’t even bother you or take away from the fantastic experience I will be uploading photos to my Flickr account hopefully today. We’ll see how much I have. Stay tuned, keep commenting, and Merry Christmas!