Lisa in New York, part I

Lisa was in New York from july 8 to july 17 and we were doing all kinds of stuff all the time. here's a partial recap of the many things that we did during that timeframe.

friday july 8 - lisa arrives in town early (flight problems, she was bumped to an earlier non-stop flight). she brought the Portland weather with her, it was cold and rainy that day. wandered around town and went to a bunch of bars in the west village.

saturday afternoon july 9 - made the trip up to Harlem. walked on 125th street all the way across Manhattan (from the 1 subway to the 4/5/6 subway). went to many of the Harlem clothing stores, looked at the street vendors -- you can get a lot of really cheap books, DVDs and CDs, and I'm sure they are perfectly legal ;) Best part of the Harlem experience was when a touristy double-decker bus went by on 125th street and a couple of doods started shouting at the bus using a megaphone "there's the real zoo (and a whole lot more, cant remember all of it now)". in some ways i can empathize with them doods -- the tourists are being driven through this neighborhood as if they were on a safari, but then again, that bus also drives through the village, downtown, etc, so i dont think its that big of a deal. we were doing it the right way, we were walking through the neighborhood, talking to people, hanging out in the stores. after Harlem went to the UES to some mediterranean restaurant. Food was great, service was really crappy. got some snooty waitress who couldn't give the proper check or proper change. walked across central park to get back home. went to some bars in the east village at night and ended up at a small bar playing 80's music that had a bachelorette party dancing and getting drunk.


Signs seen in Harlem protesting Walmart

sunday july 10 - relatively peaceful day. i went and played softball in the park, and then in the evening Lisa made dinner. we then watched the fox shows (KotH, Simpsons, Family Guy).