Hail and hearty soups

So i decided that i should reduce the bandwidth requirements of loading my blog page for a while, and cut down on the photos..... so here goes.

Today we went to the empire state building, the most monstrous commercialized entity i've set foot in for a while. The only thing that beats it would be times square, and that's not so bad because there's more space than the ESB. This would be a whole series of people waiting in line to spend money while being inundated by more attempts to get them to spend money. Sights and sounds. Thank goodness there were no food smells! Got to the top, only to get pelted by wind and hail, which was actually quite fun.....for about 5 minutes. Although admitedly, Adela was right about the weather getting worse as the day went on, which was a rather unfortunate thing to be right about. =P

So after a really good cheesecake lunch (Thanks aya) and wandering around toys R us with jem (i don't wanna gwow up, i'm a Toys R us kid) and marvelling at the amazing technology of interactive floors which work via shadows, *resists posting picture, or in fact, video* i went for my 4th and final musical of this trip: Good Vibrations. Which, as you probably know, is a beach boys song. Think Grease. Now think Grease with sun and surf. And bikinis. And funky dances which unfortunately require rather more ballet-ish skillz than the funky hand movements to the Grease songs. More songs from childhood, more memories, more good times. =) I'm addicted to musicals now, which is a pity, coz
1) I'm leaving new york
2) I'm running out of money

Which is such a sad thing. Time to save up money for that air ticket home..... even if MAS is paying for it eventually.

Back in Chicago tmw, but nowhere near my locked dorm. Pity.