Monday, Day 1
My parents booked a hotel the night before, and we slept there for a night (this wasn't really on Monday, but I don't want to make another blog post for Sunday cuz it was kinda boring lolz ).
The hotel room
Another pic of the hotel room
Then, we went to visit my sister Vicki in Manhattan. She lives there because it's near a really good fencing club. Along the way, we passed Central Park (which will be described more later) and I saw some really awesome horses attached to carriages, which tourists could ride :3
Horses with a Carriage.
Some buildings (Manhattan buildings are SUPER tall)
This was near the place we passed too (bad photo, I know)
Another really intricate building
A close up on part of it - I don't even know what the building is for LOL
Another close up
My mom and dad left me with Vicki when we met up. I had planned to go to the Natural History Museum, but we did some other stuff instead X3 I don't regret it though, because it was a really fun day. First, we ate some food:
We ate at a really good pizza place. I forgot to take a pic of the whole pizza because I was really hungry and the pizza smelled really good, so I ate it before I remembered X3
Later, we ate some really good gelato. This place is AMAZING (along with the rest of Manhattan). We had a small cup of dark chocolate and hazelnut gelato.
As we ate the nomful gelato, we made our way to Central Park. It was really fun X) We rock climbed A LOT.
We rock climbed the huge-mongous rocks there. It was really fun, cuz they were a perfect height so we wouldn't die if we fell, and there were cracks that we could use to climb it. That's me in the pic, btw.
Some of the rocks we scaled (this is the top view though)
We climbed some of these rocks also.
More rocks
Since I climbed each of the rocks before my sister tried to, I got to take some pretty awesome pictures of her climbing the boulders:
Face of Desperation!
Face of Victory!
Face of Pain (the aftermath aching)!
Oh, and I saw something that my science teacher always talks about. Maybe if I show him these pics, he'll give me extra credit :3 I really need it =_= Anyways, these are glacier lines. They're created when the glaciers from the North Pole moves down over thousands of years and pushes against the rocks. It was pretty interesting because all the glacier lines were pointed in the same way (except for one rock, but I think that that one was moved). Here are the pics:
LOLZ. My feet X3
You can't see it very well here.
Along with the glacier lines, there's also litter >:(
This one is the best pic of them. You can see the lines really clearly.
And I took a couple more pics of Central Park and the stuff around it:
A baseball field
A random bridge
A scary looking tree (ignore the person lol)
A cool looking thing to walk under
We then went to get some cookies, but on the way, I noticed this amazing tree in the large field in Central Park that looked PERFECT for climbing X3 So naturally, I climbed it XD
It was funny though, because as I was climbing it, some other high school guys were all like, "You can do it!!!" and "OH MY GOD LOOK AT THE LITTLE ASIAN GIRL!!" (I was offended by the "little" part btw) and started screaming their heads off when I completely climbed it XD It was really amusing to watch, especially when they attempted to climb it themselves:
They are so weird XP
LOL sloth style XD
He fell off afterwards, btw.
And here's me, really high up in the tree while the guys just started being able to get onto the first branch. They were looking at me and were all like, "Look how high that little asian girl got!" and got even more motivated o-o
Some more people got onto the branch
We ended up leaving them to do whatever they wanted, and we went to get some cookies X3
Welll, I kind of got distracted (again) from the cookies, and noticed another really amazing rocky place to climb, so I did!
some scenery around it
That's the rock (not the smartest place to climb, considering how a fence covers it for a reason, but whatever :P )
The bridge to the right of the boulder
I climbed the boulder and got to the top of the bridge X3
We finally got to the cookie place called:
and it was absolutely AMAZING! SO YUMMY!!!! Unfortunately, I have no pics of the cookie my sister and I shared, because, like the pizza, we forgot to take a picture before eating it T^T Manhattan food is just that good! <3
OMG try the chocolate walnut cookies, if you ever go there X3 They are a bit overpriced, but people go there anyways because the cookies are phenomenal.
Some other stuff they have - the cookies are still the best though.
Try some milk with the cookies. It quenches your thirst, and these cookies taste great with milk.
We went back to my sister's apartment after munching on the cookies, and she left me there while she took some boring interview with some person. >.> So I just rested for a bit. At around 6:15-ish, she came back and at 6:30-ish, we went to fence at NYAC. It is a really good club, that a lot of people say is the best club in the nation. The only thing I don't like about it is that it's hard to get to that fencing club, because there's a bunch of twists and turns in the building that left me really confused T^T I fenced with some awesome and amazing people for around two hours, but then my sister hurt her foot, and it looked like this (CAUTION: not for the faint-hearted):
The red thing is her ankle. The purple-black blob is a huge-mongous bruise that swelled up to 3 times its size when she stood on it. Apparently, she hit her foot right on a huge cluster of muscles. You have wonderful luck Vicki, especially with the fact that we have a national tournament this weekend. >.>
This is what she looked like afterwards:
Compare the above picture to this pain intensity scale I found in the hospital we went to for her foot (I say it's a 10, just cuz her face is incredibly funny to look at XD ):
Here's another pic of her in the hospital, looking like she's a drunkard (she was only tired, trust me):
I took a lot of building pictures also, which I'm not going to bother putting captions under because there's not much to say about them:
Oh, actually, this is the cab we were in while I was taking a lot of the photos. There are a lot of cabs in New York!
The reflective building is the CNN building
And here are some random pics that I kind of have no use for (caution: some of them are really weird):
really yummy thing from Chinatown - get one!!
X3
BIRD!
That's life.
Whatcha lookin' at, fool?!
And this concludes the excessive amount of pictures from Day 1 of my journey!
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