A group men playing mahjong in China town
A photo I took from the top of the Empire State building (using the zoom, obviously)
of the flatiron building
The buildings next to Ground Zero where the World Trade Centre stood. (the flag
on that building is just huge)
This was a nice touch - it's a bell by ground zero which anyone can go up to
and strike...
A view of Manhatten at night after a trip to Staten Island on the ferry.
Eveyone told us how boring the Island would be, but we discovered a place that
serves rasberry Cosmopolitan cocktails - an invention I totally approve of!
I think that's such a pretty building!
Grand Central Station - I love this photo, especially with the motion-blurred
people in the front...
One thing that stuck me about Wall Street, is the mixture of people there. If
you think of Japan's or England's financial centres, there seem to be mostly
bankers and courriers, yet in Wall Street there were loads of people unrelated
to the financial district just walking around, getting a coffee etc. I found
that most surprising..
Time Square
Oh, this was fun. On an episode of Sex and the City Carrey goes to a trapeze
school. I didn't see that particular episode, but my friend did, and suggested
we go. It sounded like a fun idea, and indeed it was! This is me just seconds
after jumping off the platform for the very first time....
And here
I am a swing later, hanging upside downon the same trapeze. It all went so fast
- and gave me a fantastic adrenaline rush. I do like adrenaline rushes.. There
were only 4 of us in the group - including me & my friend, and we were there
for a good 2 hours. By the end, we doing doing some even cooler stuff: one instructor
would be on another trapeze and would tell us when we should "go"
on ours. We'd start (as in the first pic), by holding on to it and jumping off
the platform, then we'd bring our legs up above the bar, let go wih our hands
(like in the pic above) reach backwards, and then the instructor would grab
hold of our arms we'd grab his wrists and then letour feet go from our trapeze
- so we'd he hanging off our instructor's arms who would in turn already be
upside down hanging off his trapeze. I can't begin to tell you how much fun
it was!!! (sadly no pics of that..)
