Today we did another bus tour, but this time we did the Uptown loop. This included the Upper West side, where people like Madonna and Oprah have apartments. It was truly beautiful. This was also where John Lennon was tragically shot, the bus drove past his building where Yoko still lives.
From there we went up through Harlem, which surprisingly was not as bad as I had thought. The "projects" were much cleaner and in better condition that the commission flats we have in Collingwood!
This bus tour went for two hours, but the female tour guide on the microphone was driving us all crazy so we decided to get off a couple of stops early. Wizzy and Carlo headed off to find Yankee Stadium, and Gav, Ash, Missy and I went to get food! We found this great little diner on 6th Avenue and had Clam Chowder which was excellent!
From there we had two missions, find Ash a long NY coat and find Popeye's Chicken!
We took the subway to China Town as we thought this would be the best place to go. It was a little disappointing, except for the raid that was going on with the street vendors. Detectives, cops everywhere, very exciting for us out-of-towners!
From there we walked, I don't know how many blocks, and came upon a store called Daffy's. Now we were told that Daffy's carried designer gear, and the longer it stayed on the floor, the cheaper it got. We certainly found that out as we got Ash an ankle length designer coat for $40!! What a bargain. Mission accomplished.
Our next mission was to find Popeye's Chicken. We asked countless people if they knew where it was, and most people had never heard of it. We were told though that to ask a question, you should always ask 3 New Yorker's. If you end up with the same answer twice, then the information is correct. We proved that theory.
We jumped on the subway again, I think this was the third time, and came to 23rd Street. Ash was sure that Popeye's was here. As it turned out, it was on 14th Street, hey, just another 9 block walk in New York - a walk in the park! We had found Popeye's - mission 2 accomplished!!
We were pretty much exhausted after that, so had a relatively early night back in the hotel, which was nice for a change.
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