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New York / Senior pictures

This is a split post. First: My New York City trip. It was awesome at this is the greatest city I have ever seen. It couldn’t be more multi cultural, BUT, multi cultural usually means problems with living with the other cultures. Not so in NYC! OK, you all have heard of the „not so good“ areas of the city, but when you go to Manhattan it’s wonderfull! I have been on top of the Empire State, at the Times Square, in the Central Park, China Town, Staten Island, Brooklyn Bridge, New York Univesity and in many many other places. First of all, it is just wonderfull to walk along the Broadway vom downtown to uptown NYC. The downtown area is probably my favourite part of the whole City. The Empire State is…. HIGH, very very high! It’s an unbeliveable view from the top of the building. Also the Times Square is breath taking. It’s even bigger than you always think it is when you see it in TV, just huge! China Town reminded me on tourist regions in Spain. Just tourist regions, though many asian people are actually still living there. The Brooklyn Bridge also is huge and impressive. I really commend everybody who has not been there yet to go there. The city is wonderful!

About my trip itself: Friday morning was the day it started. That means getting up at about 7 o’clock and then quickly get your stuff into a small bag, hoping not to forget something. After that it’s time to hit the street with the goal to reach the Detroit airport as fast as possible. > Airplane >Check out > Subway > Grand Central Station. This is the place where we met Clark the first time. An unbelievable nice person who opens his home to two strangers. Well, we were talking to each other on the phone before but it’s still something special! Thank you Clark! When we saw him he gave us a few maps of NYC and some stuff he said we just have to do. So Kim and me were walking through NYC, having no idea of all the stuff around, but that made it even better! We spend the whole night walking around and entering the observatorium of the Empire State Building. Awesome view once again! The next day I could sleep until 10 am. THANKS!!! I totally needed that sleep, just as I would actually need it right now. However, we got back to Manhattan again (Clark lives at Staten Island). A whole day just sight seeing, and I’m a real sightseeing person. It was great! After that we met Todd (or so) who took us with him to a Japanese restaurant were I tried Sushi the first time and I truely like it. Then we met the other AT cure tour people at some kind of a bar and after that went to the Times Square. Have I already mentioned that it’s really big??? Well, it is! Subway > Staten Island > sleep… A new day and also the last one was sunday. The day of the NYC marathon, what’s actually the reason we came, just to watch Tim Borland. After realizing that it’s impossible to see the start because it was all closed, we decided to go to the finish, the Central Park. Worked out very well and we even hat some great positions right at the side of the track. Good, good. I actually can’t remember what we did after that, but I can tell you that the journey to Jenison on Monday went well and I am healthy