singing in the rain

I could describe today in one word very easily - WET.

It CHUCKED it down with rain all of today, there was still piles of snow on the ground as well and massive puddles on the awfully tarmaced roads they have here (honestly you think pot holes in the UK are bad, one day here would change your mind) so walking about was a nightmare. Fee and me went to our cafe again for breaky and then got the subway down to Penn Station so Fee could buy her v expensive train ticket to Charlottesville. I got a Krispy Kreme donut - finally found where Krispy Kreme are hiding in N.Y! So anyway, very fulfilled we headed out into the rain again and walked to Times Square. We spent aggges in Roxy/Quiksilver and Fee got a top and I decided that something I must buy is some comfy 3/4 lengths for the sunshine... Another thing to add to the list. I'm majorly on budget though, I got 100 quid less than I was meant to in my budget of dollars, and I've got enough to cover the touristy things so I can actually sensibly have a splurge. So anyway, then we walked up through the bright lights to the Broadway ticket place which offered 50% off on tickets, expecting to get a deal on a mattinee show we were going to spend our afternoon there but this bubble was quickly burst as we were told the cheapest tickets were $66! Deciding it was a bit too expensive we headed sadly back into the rain. Popped into another few shops, I went into Sephora again to buy yellow eye shadow to match my gold eyeliner. I could spend hours in there. We had lunch in a v nice cafe place, and then walked back down Times Square and guess who we saw?? The Naked Cowboy!! He musta been darn cold! He just had a pair of pants and boots on with his guitar over his shoulder. He was giving an interview to a camera so couldn't get a good shot of him and Time Sq but got some side shots - bit pervy tho! Then we popped into Billabong for another search for 3/4s but to no avail. Then headed down into the subway again, having a slightly less successful trip and ending up on the north east end of Central Park on 110th Street! So had to walk allll the way back across, but it had atleast by this point stopped raining and meant we went past a post office. Nipped in there and a very helpful woman gave me a box to put all the clothes and books in to send home, she gave me the tip of 'fold and roll the clothes, thats what I do with my kids camp clothes' so yeahhh. Turns out the box is HUGE tho so its all good.

Just got in from the Texan Grill and had a v filling meal. And it was hot which was a nice change! It had a lovely poster on the wall detailing what to do if someone chokes... useful! Also had a massive bull sculpture which took up about half of the floor space. On the way back we stopped in a little store and picked up a New York Times - not to be clever and read the political section or anything, but to fill our boots with it to soak all the water up, haha. Our radiator still seems out of action so I think wet shoes tomorrow are a strong possability. Nothing worse in the world than wet shoes in the morning. I'm so rediculously tired now so think we're just going to head back to the room and chill/fall asleep.

Tomorrow we're planning on heading downtown where we've not been before; Chelsea, Greenwich, Little Italy, Chinatown, Nolita... all these weird districts which seem to have lots of nice little boutiques and resturants. Planning on seeing Ground Zero again and having a walk over Brooklyn Bridge (if its clear and there is a chance of actually seeing anything worth seeing from there). So that should be good, as long as its not wet like today...

Thats all for now, fairly dull report!
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