NYC day 2

When we woke up, we got an excellent breakfast that Jamahl made; some roasted bread, something with eggs and cheese and a fresh cup of coffee.
We took the subway at 10:20 AM (2 dollar a ride), line E till we where near 14th street. That's a thing I really like about New York; it's always easy to find your way, because of the avenue-street patron.
We passed the Forbes magazine galleries, and walked on 5th avenue till the
Washington Square. This is near the NY university and there is a famous arch.
Then we walked through SoHo (we walked on Canal street) and Tribeca to the woolworth building and the civic center city hall.
There we headed towards Chinatown (we took the Mott street) and little Italy. After walking around in those nice district, we followed Broadway for a long time. But first we had a piece of pizza as lunch and got ourselves a soda in a Wendy's. Walking on Broadway, we passed; Union Square, Madison Square and the Flatiron Building. We went into one of the biggest stores: Macy's, it has nine floors (we noticed that the firstfloor the same is as the mainfloor here).
When we came out of the store it was raining, so we waited a little bit; and it was nice to have some rain, it's really hot here in NYC.
Afterwards we took a look in Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, followed by a bit of walking to the Empire State Building (we'll visit it tomorrow) and headed towards Park Avenue. Where we saw the Morgan Library and Grant Central Terminal. Then we took 41th Street to Bryant Park where the NY public library is situated. Then we went to Times Square and bought Broadway tickets in the Tkts shop in 46th Street. (Tickets for the same evening at 8:00 PM and they were $60, which is half of the normal price) So before going to see The Producers in St James theatre, we walked a bit around on Times Square, Broadway and had some more fastfood in a BurgerKing.
The musical was amazing, I really like that kind of theatre; the decors were stunning, the singing was great,... We had a wonderfull evening and saw Times Square again, but it was as beautiful as the first time. We got back in Queens at 11:30 PM

Thanks to everyone for the comments, and Brienne, sorry for writing your name wrong on the post, but I changed it, ttyl;

Kurt and Vincent (Who's writing our 250 photos we took today on a cd)

PS; thanks to Philip for having a link to our site and to mijn zusje Silke om te proberen deze vreemde taal te begrijpen en mijn tocht te volgen.

NYC

So, today we went to NY city. This morning we took the subway from kew garden,queens to 53th street (5th avenue), Manhattan. We went out of the subway and the first things we saw were huge buildings, yellow cabs, "one way"signs, ...
The next thing I can remember is the big MoMa building. We walked a bit further and saw the disney store. We waited a few minutes till it opened and we were supprised the applaus of the shopkeepers. A bit further on 5th avenue we found the brand new Apple store, which is underground but it has a glass cube above.
We walked further and further (passing the frick collection), untill we recognised a huge museum, the Metropolitan Museum. We walked in this place for 2 hours. There were different area's: egyptian art, medieval art, american wing, japenese art, europian art, ... and the roof. On the roof we had this really nice view over the central park and the rest of the city. When we left the Metropolitan we walked in the direction of the Guggenheim museum. We took a few pictures of the stairs and went back outside. We bought a Hot-dog and a pretzel and a bottle of coke. We went in the central park. Their we saw this amazing creature: a raccoon. The next stop was the museum of natural history. There we saw this Darwin exhibition and almost all the other rooms. After two and a half hours and we went back in Central park and searched the strawberry fields.
Then we strolled to the Lincoln Center. And then we walked to Broadway. We followed this street untill we were on the famous Times square. There it was VERY crowded. We went to the MTV store, this huge toy shop and the Virgin megastore. Then we tried to buy tickets for a broadway show but because they didn't accept visa and becauce the bank of america hadn't enough cash, we changed our mind and went to the rockefeller center. But first we went to MC Donald's.
Then we headed towards the st. Patrick's cathedral, to the chrysler building (really nice view) and the united nations headquarter. After a day of walking we were pleased to get in the subway, back to Queens.

All the best
Kurt and Vincent

To NYC

We got up this morning, we packed our stuff and said goodbye to Jonathan (thanks again for everything and see you again) and Simba.
Then, around 11:00 AM, we headed towards Connecticut, where Claudia lives. We drove to Vermont first, drove through it and got gas just before entering Massasuchets, we also had lunch in a Subway. It's a kind of fastfood restaurant where you get your sandwish made.
We drove further, all the way through Massasuchets to Connecticut, where we stopped for about 20 minutes.
At 4:00 PM we headed towards NYC; while driving that much we got used to listening to the radio and I found out I actually do like Country music. We were getting really near Kew Garden in Queens, but we were still on the highway when Vincent and I heard a "pop", followed by a really strange sound, the car made. We got aside and saw that we had a flat tire; Claudia called AAA, some kind of help service. But a car from NYPD stopped and he placed the extra tire on the car, but that one had a screw in it, so we had to go to an auto repair shop, before getting to Jamahl, Amity and their child Rufus place.
So we're in New York right now writing our blog and posting some pictures, we'll get to Manhattan for the first time tomorrow.

So, greetings to everyone from Kurt and Vincent.

Mt Willard, lake (07/08)

Hello, it's Kurt here,

because Vincent went already to bed.

What we did today? Well, I got up at about 8:40 AM, took a shower had breakfast and got ready to go on a hike. It was another student of the White mountain school that took us today; Cathy drove us and Kylan to the place where the little hike started. We wondered if we could make the top in half an hour (It's only 1.5 miles with an elevation of a 1000 feet), but Kylan timed it and it was 36 minutes, but he made sure we were up the hill faster then a woman with a dog that was walking in front of us. The summit was 2865 feet high (873 meters) and we had a view of Crawford Notch up there. We talked a bit about and in other languages, eat our lunch Cathy made and went back down. Cathy picked us up and we went back home, around 2:00 PM.

Afterwards Cathy and Jonathan took us to a lake, where they could use a cabin from some friends.

We swimmed a bit, canoed all over the lake, ate a bit of cheese, this area is well-known for it's cheddar and we saw some birds: loons.

Back home in Bethlehem, we had dinner: barbecue with corn.

Then we went to the gym, where we did a bit of basketballing and climbing.

We got some icecream later, I took the flavours: maple walnut and coconut.

 

I would like to thank Cathy and Jonathan for the wonderfull days we had here in New Hampshire.

Tomorrow Cathy will be driving us all the way back to New York City, where we'll stay in Queens with Claudias son.

 

TTYL, Kurt

 

Thanks for the comments on the blog to Philip, our parents, ...

 

05/08

A post about yesterday, because we were to tired after a long day yesterday.
We woke up at 9:30 AM, took a shower and got ready for breakfast. We ate some cereals and afterwards some watermellon.
Then we made a tour on the campusof the White Mountain School: we saw Cathy's and Jonathans classroom, a sporthall, the library,... (The science building was under construction) Actually this school is a bording school and we're staying in a boys dorm (so we,ve a huge bathroom for the two of us), and our hall is connected with the appartment. Different from our school in Belgium is that they may use a laptop, they can choose between some projects, they go skiing/snowboarding too, ...
Afterwards we took together with Jonathan, Simba for a walk; we took the biopath, where we saw a lot of granite (like in whole New Hampshire), one of the rocks was called kitchen rock, because someone painted kitchen stuff on it. There were a lot of different mushrooms on our way.
When we were back, we stepped into the car and we went to lincoln. On our way we stopped at a spring to fill some bottles with water. We drove through Franconia and stopped at an Iron Furnice. We drove by the old mans head; this is a rock formation that looks like a head; it's the symbol of New Hampshire, unfortunately the head fell down a couple of years ago.
When we arrived in Lincoln (a very crowded place), we searched something to eat, we found a little restaurant, called Gypsy's; Vincent took a panini sandwich with tuna, tomatoes and potato chips, Kurt got a quesadilla, it's a toasted tortilla with melted cheese inside, I got one with portabella mushrooms.
We jumped back into the car and got to our next stop,the basin; it's something the water sculptured through the years (you can see a photograph). We made a little walk there, it's a very touristic place too, a lot of people were sitting near or in the water (brrr, it was really cold).
Boise Rock is a rock where as the legend tells us, a man slept under, with only the skin, he took from is horse; he stayed alive while there was a really nasty storm. (Other people say that the horse ate the man and stayed alive that way, we think the first story is more likely).
Our next halt was a bridge where we had a really nice view of Lafayette, one of the mountains there; on the other side we could see Vermont. We also stopped there, because Ben, to conquer his fear of heights, rappelled of this bridge.
We headed back to the White Mountain school, but stopped for a little while at an antique shop.
Back home, we posted some photographs on the site and we went for a walk to the top of the hill, we saw a toad.
We got back for dinner: spaghetti, a salad and some bread.
Afterwards we had an evening walk to a little lake accross the street, where we saw some bats, we walked a bit further, but turned back, because it was getting to dark.
When we we're back we got some icecream and started watching "Gangs of New York", but we were to tired, so we got to bed and didn't write our blog yesterday.

Time is flying, Kurt and Vincent.