US trip pics
Went to NYC and Boston over the christmas period - pictures below.
Day 1: New York
We arrive at night, starving, so we walk 2 blocks from our hotel (49th St and Lexington Ave) to Park Avenue to find food. Park Ave has trees down the middle of the road, which is apparently unique in NYC (though certainly not in Singapore).
Found Smith and Wollensky's steak house, which looks famous.
Filet mignon with roquefort (blue) cheese on top. Looks *far* better than it tastes. The first of many lousy-tasting Western meals (ok la, they're not that bad, but just not worth the $$).
Day 2
Lexington Ave; hotel's on the right.
Eggs benedict for breakfast. Didn't look so pretty when puked in a subway passageway at Grand Central, starting off 3 days of indigestion and screwing up sightseeing. (Or maybe it was the blue cheese's fault.)
Subway station at 42nd Street
New York Times building
Day 3
Nice breakfast (it seems to be the only meal that Americans can cook nice food for, at least from the perspective of a Singaporean tongue). Stomach still screwed up so no more pics for the day.
Day 4
Inside Grand Central Terminal, which connects both the subway and regional trains.
Outside Grand Central, with the Chrysler building on the right.
Astor Place, near the NYU campus, and a place we kept going back to because we took the wrong train ~3 times. (It's not like the Singapore MRT, where if you've got the wrong direction you can just get off and take the train on the other side of the platform to go in the opposite direction. For some lines, both tracks on the same platform go in the same direction, so you have to go to another platform for the opposite direction.)
Day 5
Wall Street.
Intersection of Broad Street and Wall Street. (Now I really regret not waiting for a woman to walk by into the picture =p)
NYSE
WTC site.
Museum of Natural History
Roarrr.
Imba dino plate mail. Armor +99.
We cross Central Park to get from the Museum of Natural History to the Metropolitan Museum.
Seems the Americans looted took an obelisk from somewhere in Africa and forgot to put it back.
The three bears posing outside the Metropolitan Museum.
Found one of them snoozing in the bed at night.
Greek black figure pottery. Mum was completely bored so I was wandering around alone.
Mum and Dad couldn't stand the Western food anymore and sought comfort in Chinatown.
Again, the food looked better than it tasted. Definitely authentic Chinese, but nothing spectacular.
Walking along 5th Avenue to see the Christmas decorations.
Saks Fifth Avenue. The window displays are at the side of the building, and the queue to simply look at them stretches around the block.
Giant snowflake suspended over Fifth Avenue.
Day 6
Times Square, with a few Broadway theatres (didn't manage to catch any musicals though).
In a New York minute...
...everything can change.
The Flatiron building, compressed by the need to squeeze in a building on the triangular plot of land at the intersection of Fifth Ave and Broadway, which is not perpendicular to it.
North view from the Empire State Building; the Chrysler building is easily visible. The wait to go up was 2.5 hours long -.- 30 mins spent on the 1st floor queuing to get into the building (security check), 1.5 hours spent on the 2nd floor (buy tickets, wait for elevator, and another security check), and another 30 mins spent on some higher floor waiting for another elevator to the 86th floor observation deck.
South view this time; the Flatiron building can be seen at the intersection of Fifth Ave and Broadway.
Day 7
IMBA breakfast with pro presentation at a place called Lily's.
UN compound.
Security Council chamber, sans bickering diplomats.
General Assembly chamber. Hello, Mauritius.
I went to New York, and all I got was this lousy picture of the Statue of Liberty. The ferry was closed when we went on our last day in New York :(
Day 8: Boston
View of Boston from the hotel window. In the foreground is the Back Bay area, built on reclaimed land. Further out is the Charles River and Cambridge on the other side of the river. The bridge on the left leads immediately into the heart of MIT, and is incongruously named Harvard Bridge. The undergrad dorms are on the left of the bridge overlooking the river, and the campus stretches along both sides of the bridge.
By night. The dome of the Maclaurin building lights up eerily.
Faneuil Hall Marketplace. The Singaporean equivalent would probably be Holland V.
Quincy Market within the marketplace.
Food court inside. A particularly anal busker ducked from sight when I was taking the picture (you can see his stuff on the left), and later came up and insisted that I could only take his photo after tipping. I certainly wasn't gonna feed his ego.
Day 9
MIT's Stata Center.
Undergrad dorms.
<3
Side entrance to Harvard. The sign reads "Enter to grow in wisdom". How Harvard-ish.
Harvard Yard.
John Harvard statue.
Day 10
USS Constitution. Mom was sick of lameass security checks so we decided to skip going in.
The Old State House, where the Declaration of Independence was first read...
But not by this guy.
Fenway Park. Closed when we got there. *shrug*
Nice evening sky.
Day 1: New York
We arrive at night, starving, so we walk 2 blocks from our hotel (49th St and Lexington Ave) to Park Avenue to find food. Park Ave has trees down the middle of the road, which is apparently unique in NYC (though certainly not in Singapore).
Found Smith and Wollensky's steak house, which looks famous.
Filet mignon with roquefort (blue) cheese on top. Looks *far* better than it tastes. The first of many lousy-tasting Western meals (ok la, they're not that bad, but just not worth the $$).
Day 2
Lexington Ave; hotel's on the right.
Eggs benedict for breakfast. Didn't look so pretty when puked in a subway passageway at Grand Central, starting off 3 days of indigestion and screwing up sightseeing. (Or maybe it was the blue cheese's fault.)
Subway station at 42nd Street
New York Times building
Day 3
Nice breakfast (it seems to be the only meal that Americans can cook nice food for, at least from the perspective of a Singaporean tongue). Stomach still screwed up so no more pics for the day.
Day 4
Inside Grand Central Terminal, which connects both the subway and regional trains.
Outside Grand Central, with the Chrysler building on the right.
Astor Place, near the NYU campus, and a place we kept going back to because we took the wrong train ~3 times. (It's not like the Singapore MRT, where if you've got the wrong direction you can just get off and take the train on the other side of the platform to go in the opposite direction. For some lines, both tracks on the same platform go in the same direction, so you have to go to another platform for the opposite direction.)
Day 5
Wall Street.
Intersection of Broad Street and Wall Street. (Now I really regret not waiting for a woman to walk by into the picture =p)
NYSE
WTC site.
Museum of Natural History
Roarrr.
Imba dino plate mail. Armor +99.
We cross Central Park to get from the Museum of Natural History to the Metropolitan Museum.
Seems the Americans looted took an obelisk from somewhere in Africa and forgot to put it back.
The three bears posing outside the Metropolitan Museum.
Found one of them snoozing in the bed at night.
Greek black figure pottery. Mum was completely bored so I was wandering around alone.
Mum and Dad couldn't stand the Western food anymore and sought comfort in Chinatown.
Again, the food looked better than it tasted. Definitely authentic Chinese, but nothing spectacular.
Walking along 5th Avenue to see the Christmas decorations.
Saks Fifth Avenue. The window displays are at the side of the building, and the queue to simply look at them stretches around the block.
Giant snowflake suspended over Fifth Avenue.
Day 6
Times Square, with a few Broadway theatres (didn't manage to catch any musicals though).
In a New York minute...
...everything can change.
The Flatiron building, compressed by the need to squeeze in a building on the triangular plot of land at the intersection of Fifth Ave and Broadway, which is not perpendicular to it.
North view from the Empire State Building; the Chrysler building is easily visible. The wait to go up was 2.5 hours long -.- 30 mins spent on the 1st floor queuing to get into the building (security check), 1.5 hours spent on the 2nd floor (buy tickets, wait for elevator, and another security check), and another 30 mins spent on some higher floor waiting for another elevator to the 86th floor observation deck.
South view this time; the Flatiron building can be seen at the intersection of Fifth Ave and Broadway.
Day 7
IMBA breakfast with pro presentation at a place called Lily's.
UN compound.
Security Council chamber, sans bickering diplomats.
General Assembly chamber. Hello, Mauritius.
I went to New York, and all I got was this lousy picture of the Statue of Liberty. The ferry was closed when we went on our last day in New York :(
Day 8: Boston
View of Boston from the hotel window. In the foreground is the Back Bay area, built on reclaimed land. Further out is the Charles River and Cambridge on the other side of the river. The bridge on the left leads immediately into the heart of MIT, and is incongruously named Harvard Bridge. The undergrad dorms are on the left of the bridge overlooking the river, and the campus stretches along both sides of the bridge.
By night. The dome of the Maclaurin building lights up eerily.
Faneuil Hall Marketplace. The Singaporean equivalent would probably be Holland V.
Quincy Market within the marketplace.
Food court inside. A particularly anal busker ducked from sight when I was taking the picture (you can see his stuff on the left), and later came up and insisted that I could only take his photo after tipping. I certainly wasn't gonna feed his ego.
Day 9
MIT's Stata Center.
Undergrad dorms.
<3
Side entrance to Harvard. The sign reads "Enter to grow in wisdom". How Harvard-ish.
Harvard Yard.
John Harvard statue.
Day 10
USS Constitution. Mom was sick of lameass security checks so we decided to skip going in.
The Old State House, where the Declaration of Independence was first read...
But not by this guy.
Fenway Park. Closed when we got there. *shrug*
Nice evening sky.