NYC was tiring but well-worth it
Wow, these past four days just flew past.
I was ridiculously busy and am paying the price for it now.
I made it up to New York City early Friday afternoon in some nasty pounding rain which seemed to let up by the time we arrived at Chelsea Piers but the wind was seriously biting and I was freezing. I helped set up and get things ready for the weekend public tours and then spent Saturday and Sunday just busy, busy, busy. I mostly managed the tour groups, chit-chatted with people and in general tried to help out as much as I could. This meant that I was up by 7:30ish and at our new beautiful Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior III, by 8:30ish in the morning and set up in front of the gangplank from 10 am until 4pm and then helping close up both afternoons. Drinks ensued after both days.
Saturday night we ended up at the Trailer Park Lounge for dinner (no joke! Manhattan has a Trailer trash restaurant!) which seemed to involve cheap Hula dolls, old road signs, Windex + paper towels and plastic burger trays for all of your food which mainly consisted of burgers, mac + cheese, or chili with a side of tater tots. I ended up with veggie mac/cheese/chili that wasn't half bad.
Sunday was wash-rinse-repeat but this time we ventured a bit further away into Soho a fantastic vegan restaurant called Sacred Chow Bistro that had some lovely veggie and faux-meat with fantastic lattes followed by drinks at a swanky bar called Pegu Club which had some very fabulous cocktails. We couldn't get away from that place without a rather high bill, haha. But well worth it. And an added bonus: the bartenders didn't seem to care that we were rather grungy coming off of a long work day and full up on Greenpeace gear into a nice upscale bar. I do recommend the Earl Grey MarTEAni among others.
As for today, well, unfortunately it is Monday which meant that I couldn't go to a Broadway show or even visit the MET (*cries*) but we tried to no avail and ended up at the American Museum of Natural History instead with a brief drive through Times Square before heading home.
And now here I am back in my room and rather exhausted. For some reason there is no hot water to be found so I can't take a hot bath to soak my aching muscles so I think I am going to curl up in bed instead with a book until I pass out.
(As an added bonus, I did manage to get Florence and the Machine concert tickets for Atlantic City in May on Friday's drive up to NYC so I'm pretty excited about that to come as well as my Toronto trip next month.)
I was ridiculously busy and am paying the price for it now.
I made it up to New York City early Friday afternoon in some nasty pounding rain which seemed to let up by the time we arrived at Chelsea Piers but the wind was seriously biting and I was freezing. I helped set up and get things ready for the weekend public tours and then spent Saturday and Sunday just busy, busy, busy. I mostly managed the tour groups, chit-chatted with people and in general tried to help out as much as I could. This meant that I was up by 7:30ish and at our new beautiful Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior III, by 8:30ish in the morning and set up in front of the gangplank from 10 am until 4pm and then helping close up both afternoons. Drinks ensued after both days.
Saturday night we ended up at the Trailer Park Lounge for dinner (no joke! Manhattan has a Trailer trash restaurant!) which seemed to involve cheap Hula dolls, old road signs, Windex + paper towels and plastic burger trays for all of your food which mainly consisted of burgers, mac + cheese, or chili with a side of tater tots. I ended up with veggie mac/cheese/chili that wasn't half bad.
Sunday was wash-rinse-repeat but this time we ventured a bit further away into Soho a fantastic vegan restaurant called Sacred Chow Bistro that had some lovely veggie and faux-meat with fantastic lattes followed by drinks at a swanky bar called Pegu Club which had some very fabulous cocktails. We couldn't get away from that place without a rather high bill, haha. But well worth it. And an added bonus: the bartenders didn't seem to care that we were rather grungy coming off of a long work day and full up on Greenpeace gear into a nice upscale bar. I do recommend the Earl Grey MarTEAni among others.
As for today, well, unfortunately it is Monday which meant that I couldn't go to a Broadway show or even visit the MET (*cries*) but we tried to no avail and ended up at the American Museum of Natural History instead with a brief drive through Times Square before heading home.
And now here I am back in my room and rather exhausted. For some reason there is no hot water to be found so I can't take a hot bath to soak my aching muscles so I think I am going to curl up in bed instead with a book until I pass out.
(As an added bonus, I did manage to get Florence and the Machine concert tickets for Atlantic City in May on Friday's drive up to NYC so I'm pretty excited about that to come as well as my Toronto trip next month.)