Raining, but we went as planned to South Ferry, to take ferry to Staten Island and look at Statue of Liberty. There weren't many people in the ferry but visibility was quite bad.
Wall Street bull in the rain
NYSE on Wall St
Grand Central Terminal
Had a lamb gyro from a roadside stand. Tasted really good though the cart was really dark. Sunny had a hot dog. Went past Trinity Church. Quite strange how Gothic architecture appears suddenly in a big city. Wall Street, then went to Grand Central Terminal. The place is really pretty, like a real busy terminal inside and looks good on the outside too. Walked around the area to UN. Unfortunately non of the flags are up, so we just saw a whole collection of flagpoles. I'm really glad I have a guidebook with me, so I end up being the tour guide. Haha.
Went to Rockefeller Center after that and saw NBC news broadcasting, saw the huge NYC Christmas tree and ice-skating rink. Outdoor ice-skating. Cool! Chiong day, after that we walked to the church.. oops forgot name. Anyway wasn't particularly wowed by it cos I've seen similar ones in Italy, but the organ's huge! Which reminds me, I must go check out the outdoor organ in San Diego some day.
Then Chinatown for dinner with the astar people at Nyonya. Malaysian/ Singapore food. Very popular restaurant. Will be much more shiok if I didn't have a sore throat. ooi tried to order black pepper crab and the waiter immediately asked if we were Singaporeans, haha. Had a bit of prata, chicken rice, mango shrimp, some vege. Wasn't until we were trying to order dessert when I realised that they have yu tou mi fen. nvm. Met a whole bunch of Singaporeans there, for some reason, everyone's in NY at the same time in the same place, so people were saying hi to so many pple. It's a small world.
After dinner, everyone decided to go Times Square. I was quite tired and wanted to go home, but since everyone wanted to go, I went too. Good choice. It was really a Wow place. So many lights, so many people. On a normal weekday night. Much much more crowded than Orchard on Sat. Walked around, taking photos of "everything that's bright", haha. Walked around to locate Coldstone but walked the wrong direction, so by the time we found coldstone, it was 11.40 and it closed at 11pm. So got icecream from Macs and went home. Good thing NYC subway is 24h.
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