NYC Not On A Budget

Parents picked me up for the weekend and we went down to NYC. Friday night was spent driving around till 3am looking for a room. Ended up spending $200 per night, plus $40 per night for parking. But the hotel was fucking swanky – financial district, could see WTC site from window. Saturday we checked out The Gates, Christo’s 23-mile sculpture criss-crossing Central Park. It was alright, I don’t pretend to ‘get’ or enjoy modern art, but it was a tad entertaining. Walked around a lot of Central Park, ate a lot of good food. Saturday night was spent at the Pussycat Lounge, nearly four hours of laughably bad metal bands.

Sunday we toured around a little more, checked out the Empire State Building, but there was a two hour wait to go up. So we ate and headed out. Oh, forgot to mention the $150 ticket we got for supposedly parking in a bus lane. It’s bullshit, we were clear of the busses. Bah.

I did all the driving, first time I had driven in NYC – before this the largest city I’d driven in was probably Boston. At night you can really fly from light to light. During the day it’s absolutely bumper to bumper – I had an absolute blast. And not that bad driving stick in the city, actually.