Christmas and New York City
So this post was supposed to go up at the beginning of January when we'd just returned from NYC and I got all of our awesome happy snaps up on Flickr and I got to pick out my faves and tell a few stories of the shenanigans that we got up to in the City That Never Sleeps. However somehow I managed to screw up getting the photos into Flickr and since there's a monthly throttle on how many you can upload I totally blew that out trying to get things sorted out. And so now that it's February I'm finally able to put up some more photos and get this post finished up.
Firstly Christmas down in Oregon was brilliant. We had godawful luck with our flights all over the US so I'm not going to rehash that debacle and will concentrate on the more exciting things like outdoor store shopping with the boyz, pulling pressies out of our stockings on Christmas Day, pulling pressies out of the stocking overflow annex on Christmas Day!, Col getting to Target multiple times, us buying heaps of cool new clothes, spending lots of time with the extended Oregon family and most importantly of all: insanely good Mexican food! I have never had so many delicious burritos, taqueros, tacos and chimichangas in my entire life. So good.
Then more crappy flights and waiting around forever in terminals until we ended up in Newark, reunited with Dave and jumped into a New Jersey taxi (they're white and not yellow like the NYC ones) and cruised into Manhattan. After settling into Dave & Sarah's lovely apartment near Central Park we headed straight for Times Square. That place is the epitomy of big city flash and craziness, including stretch Hummers (grrr!) movie set trailers and paraphernalia and the local flavour, none more so than the street poet that bailed us up, entertained us handily and then after liberating us of a couple of dollars left us with our first indelible impression of New York City - Crazy Town!
Doesn't get more New York than this!
The set of photos is now finally up here on Flickr so feel free to have a browse of our favourite photos that we came back with. Remember if you want any of them (or any other photos that are there) at full resolution (you know to sprinkle on your desktop or whatnot) then email me and I can send them through to you. Part of the problem the first go around was trying to upload the full sized images and getting it totally wrong. sigh...
Firstly Christmas down in Oregon was brilliant. We had godawful luck with our flights all over the US so I'm not going to rehash that debacle and will concentrate on the more exciting things like outdoor store shopping with the boyz, pulling pressies out of our stockings on Christmas Day, pulling pressies out of the stocking overflow annex on Christmas Day!, Col getting to Target multiple times, us buying heaps of cool new clothes, spending lots of time with the extended Oregon family and most importantly of all: insanely good Mexican food! I have never had so many delicious burritos, taqueros, tacos and chimichangas in my entire life. So good.
Then more crappy flights and waiting around forever in terminals until we ended up in Newark, reunited with Dave and jumped into a New Jersey taxi (they're white and not yellow like the NYC ones) and cruised into Manhattan. After settling into Dave & Sarah's lovely apartment near Central Park we headed straight for Times Square. That place is the epitomy of big city flash and craziness, including stretch Hummers (grrr!) movie set trailers and paraphernalia and the local flavour, none more so than the street poet that bailed us up, entertained us handily and then after liberating us of a couple of dollars left us with our first indelible impression of New York City - Crazy Town!
Doesn't get more New York than this!
The set of photos is now finally up here on Flickr so feel free to have a browse of our favourite photos that we came back with. Remember if you want any of them (or any other photos that are there) at full resolution (you know to sprinkle on your desktop or whatnot) then email me and I can send them through to you. Part of the problem the first go around was trying to upload the full sized images and getting it totally wrong. sigh...
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