photostory friday - colourful new york

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

aside from needing matchsticks to hold my eyes open, i haven't posted any pics from my AWESOME trip to new york because i just didn't know where to start! miss 19 (ever practical) said 'start at the beginning', but that would be boring, so here are some of the more 'colourful' people i met on my trip.

this is the naked cowboy. he hangs out in times square, and for $2 you can have your picture taken with him. indecent proposals (like the one he's giving me in this pic) are apparently free...

i figured his would be a fair weather vocation, but i hear that he's there YEAR-ROUND. i'm guessing come christmas he could call himself the shrivelled cowboy...

lady liberty at dusk, as seen from the staten island ferry (which is free to ride!)

'stone' art at central park

halloween doggie couture at target

fall leaves at princeton (oh yes, i go there!)

me and 'bertha' (the name i gave to kristi's GPS). i shouldn't really be cursing her, because she got us from the illinois side of missouri, clear across to kansas city. the only problem was the kiwi in the passenger seat (that would be me), interpreting what she said (which i had to then relay to kristi!)

confusion arose from bertha saying repeatedly 'turn on 2'. i couldn't understand why every road we had to take was called '2', but what she was actually saying was 'turn ONTO!' funny

our cruise director/camp mother for the kansas city girls' weekend donna, at the local hobby lobby. debbie bows at donna's feet when we discover a line of stickers that donna designed.

donna also organised a 'yankee swap' for the friday night. debbie lucked out with this black and white themed goodie bag!

kristi's VERY cute dog 'T-Bone'. i wasn't allowed to pet him much, because he would get over-excited, and when he got excited, he tended to pee - on the floor!

the lady herself - 'madge', in concert at madison square garden. she's in the middle of that circle - squint and you can see her! she sure puts on a show!

white 'pie' at grimaldi's pizza under the brooklyn bridge

locals al, andy and jason. the pizza parlour wasn't open when i got there and a crowd started to gather. it's that popular! these guys showed up and they just sounded SO NEW YORK, i asked if i could sit with them for lunch. they worked for a local utility and ate there around 4 times a week! they ordered for us all AND bought me lunch. they were just wonderful and even walked me back to the nearest subway station.

brooklyn has experienced a re-growth over the years and is now a very popular place to live. the downtown area now sports many trendy stores and restaurants, where once it wasn't even safe to walk.

'scout' - aidan's bar in 'sex and the city'. this was one of the stops on the tour of the same name (one of my top 5 highlights of the trip). one of those cosmopolitans has my name on it!!!

the subways were teeming with musicians of all kinds, and they were happy to pose and perform for snap happy tourists like me! i just loved that he 'played the bucket'!

more coming from my intrepid travels!