fri - more walking, went to cellar bar for danny buddah morales, good night, although no one dances!
met up with Iman and Brooklyn mike from the RY board.
had to much to drink and chatted up some texan girl, who as my luck would have it was ogling the dancers and was a wannabe lesbian...
sat - woke up, stinking hangover and lack of sleep, wandered down to reception, when this girl noticed my landon accent n asked to guess where i was from. i thought, i bet she thinks im an aussie, thinking she was from the states... chatted to her for about 15 mins half awake, and asked her where she was from.... manchester she said.... i went back to bed...
MORE Shopping, picked up my ipod from the Apple store (20GB full fat one for £188). arranged to meet Vdubjb from here outside my hostel. stood there for 10mins looking around for him, only to realise he was standing next to me the whole time. hitched a lift from another Sanchez board member and headed to Cielo - "the club to goto". got there at 12.30 only to bve told, if yr not on the g/list come back at 2.30. went for a drink with the guys in some swanky bar, had a chuckle about how the brits n the americans have diff words for diff things. noticed some very classy looking ladies dancing together, who were being groped by some balding 50yr old, but they were loving it!
went to club, and got in... expecting it to be rammed, it was half empty!
nice space tho, had ted patterson on the decks, and music was cool, and even tho the US is the birthplace for house music, they STILL dont get it!
sun- got up early and headed uptown (again) to watch the marathon. got myself a wicked spot and saw Paula speed past to 2 shouts of "GO ON PAULA" among a crowd of hundreds... chatted to US guy next to me who's wife was running in it, and he thought i was an aussie, didnt know who paula radcliffe was (i informed him she was british and the womans WORLD record holder). did more shopping... had early nite.
mon - went up empire state (very high n cold) in the morning, visited ground zero (eerie) more shopping, and met up with Jaime (morillos cousin), his gf Kari, and Iman again. went for a nice meal in a morrocan restaurant called Le Souk. Jaime and Kari had come back from the London RY on the sat, and were blown away how crazy we all party...
tues - found record shop doing a %1.99 sale... only had an hour b4 i had to leave for airport.
cabbie was a nutter, a lil peruvian guy, kept turning round to speak to me while doing 70mph+ IN TRAFFIC, weaving in and out, on the hard shoulder... still, man got me to JFK on time!
after checking in early, i went thru security expecting Duty free shops like we do at heathrow... there were 3 shops
sat down craving for a ciggie waitin for boarding time. they split us into groups for boarding... they called the 2 groups b4 me, and then said "im sorry but the flight is overbooked and we need volunteers for the next flight which leaves in about 2 hrs
not happy, but fortunately some peeps got the next flight.
man, ive never been on such a bumpy flight before, was sat in midddle seat of a row of 5.
made myself sleep, and next thing i know im being woken up for "breakfast". flew over liverpool, birmingham (i did wave)and circled london a bit b4 landing. got thru customs with my £££££££'s worth of gear 8)
glad i went, place is huge and no way can u do that much on a 3 night break, i was there for 5 and didnt do half the stuff i wanted to, still good excuse to go back. pack yr lip balm tho. air's very dry over there.
will post pics up soon.
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