Cooper Square Hotel New York City

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At the hostel most of the staff seemed to be paying for their stay by working there & one such person, a Chilean called Josephina, led a pub-crawl around the Upper West Side this night. Dollar a beer in most places meant that I got royally ******. I got propositioned by a girl from the hostel called Emma (bottle-blonde, caked in make-up, originally from Cardiff but possessing the most ridiculously affected Mid-Atlantic accent she was quite possibly the rudest person I ...

... of Liberty (Big, Green)

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The things that we thought were totally awesome we're gunna talk about in more detail, and the stuff above, we'll just tell you we went there. OK, so.....

Flo: After getting into New York late after a 13 hour train journey from Canada, we checked straight into a Hostel. The next morning we meet up with Dan (Simon's brother) and Kate (Dan's girlfriend) in Grand ...

... style castle, funfair...I could go on! It's a brilliant place to relax while still being in the city.

After resting my weary legs I headed down to the Rockefeller Centre to go to the top of the Rock and view the sunset over the city. The views of Central Park and the Empire State Building from the top were well worth the admission fee. It was interesting to watch how the city changed as the sun set and all the lights came on - it's certainly true ...

der erste morgen und der erste komplette tag in der großen stadt. was soll ich sage? in new york gibt es sicherlich viele sehenswürdigkeiten aber die größte sehenswürdigkeit ist wahrscheinlich new york selber. einfach durch die straßen schlendern, sich mit dem strom treiben lassen und an jeder ecke völlig verrückte leute treffen und einfach "mittendrin" sein - das klingt nach nichts besonderem, ist für mich aber bisher das new-york-gefühl.

... we played on the massive piano that Tom Hanks played on in 'BIG'...it was so awesome!!)







We also went down to the Natural History Museum, purely to see the lobby bit with the dinosaur from 'Night at the Museum' haha!

It rained a bit this morning on us, but its been really warm/muggy all day, and brightened up a bit so we didnt do too badly!!

Then we went for a late ...

... Central America. After that I made my way to the Museum of Modern Art. As you can see in some of my photos this place is amazing. The design and the collection really blew me away. I ended up spending 6 hours there and really could have spend more. I highly recommend it to anyone coming to NYC. I suppose I love Pop Culture and Modern things. When I left the sun was an hour or so from setting so I ...

... her darshan from Amma. That was all that mattered. When I reflect on it I wonder if this single event was perhaps the whole reason I felt called to go on tour and serve? Its hard to say what Amma's Leila (devine play) is. All I know is that in that moment my soul was at peace. For once I felt as though I had finally done something with my life! Jai Ma! For additional blog entries click this table of contents link and enjoy!

... is a great space, saw some Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet it was great! We then took a cab to the vodka pizza place, found a cool Japanese bar and had some sake, and resorted to an American bar and watched some College Basketball...... We woke the next day at 11am which was slightly better, and MAN IT WAS COLD. The sky was beautiful clear blue but it was ICY. I was ecstatic about the fact there were ice puddles, Shane not so much, and I kept touching them as we walked to the ...

... walk through the museum, and of course take photos from all angles.   By this time we were pretty thirsty so I got a Coke for John and an Iced Mocha for myself and we rested our weary feet on a park bench.  Naturally, my curiosity go the better of me so I just had to see what sort of tacky souvenirs were available at the museum gift shop.  There were Statue of Liberty shot glasses, coffee mugs, t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, foam crowns, key chains ...

This was our travel day. We flew out of Laugarudia airport on United Airlines at 7:30 am. We had to leave our house at 6 which meant i had to wake up at 5. Our first flight was about 4 hrs and arrived in Denver, Colorado for our 3 hour layover. In Denver we ate in the most amazing french restaurant, i had french ...