A bite of the Big Apple....

Well, to bring you up to date as to what has been happening this past week......
The remainder of my weekend and Memorial Day was spent strolling around Wall Street, seeing the New York Stock Exchange, Federal Hall....Made another visit to the World Trade Centre, for some reason this time it seemed a lost more vast from what I remember. After walking around Battery Park and being suitably harrassed by a guy called Norman I took a stroll and found myself in a place called Veteran Square, only a tiny place but there was a lot of vietnam veterans paying their respects, singing, all in military uniform which was interesting to see with it being Memorial Day.

Started back at work on Tuesday which was like going back in time!!!!This time around they have moved to a super big, impressive studio, its pretty amazing!!!Was nice to see all the familiar faces and have a good catch up with everyone and hear all the gossip!!!I mean its all about the gossip isnt it?!?!?Theres a few new people aswell some of which are pretty crazy so Im looking forward to getting back in there and doing some seriously hard work!
So this past week has been pretty intense at work but Im loving every minute!Its so good to be doing something I love everyday of my life, those months of working in a tedious and uncreative, job to fund this big trip are totally paying off now!!!!!Its totally puts everything into perspective!!!!So work is going great, my evenings have been spent trying to experience as many bars in NYC as I can, going out for dinner to some great places and enjoying pizza and trashy TV with my housemates Paige and Taos!Im having the most amazing time!!!!Did some serious shopping yesterday which was a lot of fun, probably not so great for the backpacking budget which is yet to kick in....Im figuring that I wont start thinking about it till I reach Asia...naughty!
Today was a very random day!!!Finally got to make it to Coney Island!Last time round it was winter and people said it was kinda shady in the off season but today i eventually got to go!Stillwell station had recently reopened in the past couple of days and as the weather was amazing today it was destined to be reaaaaallly busy!Had a great time, we went to the fair, saw the freakshow.......

After this we walked up to Brighton Beach which was really cool, it has a really strong Russian Community so theres all these amazing Russian Restaurants and little old ladies on deckchairs!I loved it!
After the long trek back all the way through Brookyln to Midtown me and Taos went out to a really quirky chinese place and the food was gorgeous!!!
Tonight Paige took me for Martinis at the 'Hudson Hotel', it was so beautiful, all designed by Philip Stark, it was amazing!We sat on these big stone seats amongst lanterns and twinkly lights and enjoyed lycee and mango martinis!Shockingly expensive but well worth it!!!!Back to work tomorrow.......