We got to New York in the evening - our hotel is just outside of Manhattan, so we took a shuttle bus over to check out Times Square. People there drive as if crazy, 4 rows of cars in 3 lanes of traffic. Driving in left turn lanes to cut back into the regular lanes at the front. It was never this road-rage aggressive and uncivilized even in the asian cities I've been in, they are absolutely barbaric here.
Anyways, we walked around the Times Square area and it was pretty cool. We saw some famous eats and sights, although the restaurant we stopped at, one of a number of Tad's Steak places, was not that good. I wouldn't recommend the gristly steaks they serve there or their rare-cooked 'chopped steak' burgers. We also got carded for the beer we had. I guess we look under 21 even though E is going to be FORTY in a few more years.
I also tried some of the chicken skewers/kebabs they have at the street vendors, and while it was tasty (better than the restaurant, in fact) it did not settle very well. So I downed a bottle of coke, reasoning that it would dissolve it, and it seems to be working.
After we got back to the hotel, the three of us flipped coins to see who got beds and who got the folding cot - I'm the unlucky one who gets the cot. Oh well. >_<
Tomorrow we will hit a deli for lunch and then catch the baseball game.
Allen.
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