Lost on Earth

...What a wonderful town...

Well, I haven't written because I have been in New York. I am embarrassed to admit that I am 27 and this is the first time I have ever been to New York. A few impressions:

- There are those who love New York and those who hate it (apparently there are few people who are in the middle). I'm definitely a lover.

- Times Square is smaller than it looks on TV

(View from my hotel room)

- New Yorkers don't dress like the cast of Sex and the City (found out the hard way)

- It's the cleanest big city I have visited. I told this to a New Yorker (well, New Jersey, actually) and she was flabbergasted. I tried to explain that I thought it was clean because of all the BAGS of garbage on the street, as opposed to straight-up littler. I didn't get any understanding. She hasn't seen Bangkok yet...

Admittedly I didn't see anything of the city until the last half of Friday when my boss and I spent about six hours shopping in Soho and visiting happy hours around town. For the previous four days the only glimpses I had of NY was when I was bustled from the hotel into a waiting car, and then bustled from a waiting car to the hotel again, at dark. The rest of the time I was in Paramus, NJ, which is a lot like Lynnwood, WA: malls, highways, malls.

Friday - Enjoying my freedom (for a few hours)