Thursday May 21

Well - we tried to sleep in today.

We woke up and ate again at "Hidden Cafe" oooh yummy! It's cheaper to eat at a "cheap eat" than it is to buy food - a box of cereal here costs about $5 or $6! Yikes!

After breakfast, we went to Rockafeller Center again for a tour. The man spoke into a microphone and we each got a "receiver" and headphones. Our tour guide was a very strange man, and I don't think we learned anything about Rockafeller center except: that it was built during the depression, the way the elevators are built increases room for rentable space, there is artwork, Rockafeller Junior's wife started the Modern Museum of Art, they have a love story apparently, something about the union, something about the walls, the floors are made of the same stuff that bowling balls are made from, Rockafeller got his money from oil, and the thought of "underground" and connection to the subway was unheard of. Sounds like we learned a lot? He said all of that in about five minutes, and then babbled the rest of the time - I have no clue what he was talking about. I took of my head phones. He kept saying "Right?? Right, right. Huh. SO! Right, right. Right!" Straight up weirdo.

CHINATOWN! People follow you yelling "Prada, Gucci, Fendi, Tiffany, Rolex, you like?". They have these tiny tiny stores crammed full of anything you could possibly ever want. $5 tshirt, scarf, handbag, glasses, luggage, jewelry, etc. I have never seen so many chinese people in my life. I wish I knew how to speak Chinese, because they would mumble back and forth as I was trying to haggle the price. I got some sunglasses, a purse, and a scarf.
Poor Little Italy, it's being taken over by Chinatown. There were about five or six blocks of chinatown, and only one little street of little italy. When we walked down the street, the host's from the restaurants would come out into the street and try to walk us inside to a table. "NO thank you!"

That's it for the day so far... we are meeting up with Jeremy in a little bit... Jeremy lived in the dorm the same summer that Johnathan and I met, and we were all in the same circle of friends. He moved to GA after graduation and worked for Abercrombie, and is now in NYC working for either Abercrombie or Hollister corporate something or another. Yay!

One more day... should be exciting! :)