What can I say but this city never sleeps! Even before I arrived in the States I quickly came back to reality firstly sitting next to a girl I'd met in Buenos Aries two years ago and shared Christmas with (the chances of that are unknown) and then experiencing the slowness of immigration and customs at Dallas which saw me racing for my connecting flight to New York making it as the doors were closing.
So I was pumped and ready for action on arrival in New York. You forget just how busy this place is, there's always something going on, always noise, always a crowd of people on the footpaths and in shops, more museums, concerts and things to see than you can possibly have time for - unless you get right on into it you can become overwhelmed and a tad lost.
Having spent the last two and half months in summer gear I wasn't really ready for the change of weather but fortunately it wasn't as bad as it could have been and the shopping very quickly consumed me - the sales were amazing up to 75% off and this was before Christmas!
I had a great time catching up with Kate and Robbee Fisher, they had moved to NYC from Sydney in the last month, now had a home to share. We managed to fit in lots of shopping, dinners, Central Park, the Met, Christmas light and shop window viewing, Robbee's off-Broadway debut and many laughs as well as
Checking out Tiffany's 5th Avenue windows
Bike riding along the Hudson River
Church services and lunch in Harlem
The Radio City Hall Christmas Spectacular with the Radio City Rockettes (in 3D no less)
Catching up with another ex Events NSW colleague in Jo Chan.
We had a hoot of a time and it was all over far too quickly before I jumped on the train to Boston to catch up with my old mate Grant.
I hadn't been to Boston before and I really enjoyed my time here very quickly having a few lessons as I was gently reminded of the significance of this city in American history. Of course a place on my must visit list was Harvard University, unfortunately I couldn't go into the grounds as I missed the last tour and you could only enter if you had Harvard ID duet the 'Occupy Harvard' activity going on inside. I think Grant was a tad worried when I said maybe I could come and study there for a bit, his concerns we're quickly alleviated when I looked up how much a short term course is there!
It was pretty cold in Boston, don't be deceived by the blue skies, although there want any snow. My two days there certainly wasn't long enough and so I have another city on the 'revisit' list!
As with New York there was certainly a Christmas feel to the city which I think you get to appreciate a little more with the days being shorter and the lights getting to sparkle that little bit longer.
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