We went to Ground Zero to go and have look at a big building site, I felt slightly guilty about my Halloween costume and we went into a Hilton hotel to have a ghoulish, morbid gawp at the site from above. Didn't have the gall to take any pictures though. This was before we took some photos outside the iconic Ghostbusters Firehouse alongside other Brits from our demographic.
Then we stumbled across a cigar shop and encountered six New York Dons sitting around smoking cigars INSIDE and generally shooting the shit. We must have looked like such limp, giggling streaks of piss to their eyes;nevertheless we got our cigars and had a quick chat with Mr Miagi who was a lovely gent and it became an unexpected highlight of NYC.
The first bridge of the trip! Brooklyn.
Walked up and down this iconic monster taking many photos on the way. Amazing structure. I was very aroused.
Then we stopped to gedda pizza pie at Grimaldi's which stands at the foot of the beast on the Brooklyn side. As you can see it was massif and the best pizza i've ever had.
Then for the evening's entertainment it was Owen's sisters(Carys) screenplay (which was great) being acted out alongside some others (that weren't - seriously). This was in a swanky conference centre and we felt slightly out of place amongst the Colombia trendy students but got stuck into the free food and pop. This wasn't helped by the fact that myself and ian had been sniggering and imitating the gestures of the most self-congratulatory, OTT, mis-shapen mincebag we had ever seen without realising we were sat directly in front of his parents.... Think The Penguin from Batman Returns crossed with We got down to their last bottle of beer and went out en masse to a bar conveniently round the corner and talked SHITE around a booth that was too small. We were accompanied by Carys' boyfriend Jaren and her friend Maya amongst other entertaining film students Met another fairly poncy southerner who was on his own and thought he knew everything about everything, but he was a kind enough soul I guess..This was quite a boozy affair and we went on til 7 in the morning. A lot of the subject matter was taken up by Nick Cage as he was filming his new film The Sorcerers Apprentice about a hundred yards away in Times Square and there were all sorts of overly cautious security guards bossing people about on the streets (which myself and Maya pointed out to them was fruitless as they had no jurisdiction there). We got to see a bit of Hollywood magic take place as they were filming a big car chase set-piece at the time. Ooooh!
There are no photos of this evening and that is probably a good thing.
Fantastic bridge!
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